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I have added a Bezier line to the outer end of a spiral. (See comment for details.) After that I selected both, colorized them and gave them a small amount of blur (1.5%). The problem is, that only the spiral gets blury, but not the Bezier line. Nevertheless, if I move one node of the Bezier line somewhere else to the...
I've used GIMP for a while and have custom settings, brushes, plugins, etc. installed on my Windows 7 computer. I have a Windows XP machine that I want GIMP on too, and I want all the customizations already on my Windows 7 computer on the XP one as well. Where is the GIMP settings/plugins/brushes folder and what is the...
The above image shows tabs of opened files in photoshop. I'm making icons of android app for multiple resolution support. Some of you may know that Android treats same filename in different folders named drawable-hdpi, drawable-mdpi, drawable-ldpi to support multiple resolution. I'd like to put a kind of tag or title ...
I'm a web developer and on a regular basis I need to work with .psd files that have been provided by a designer. My needs are low - mostly I just toggle layer visibility and then save as .png, which I further slice and dice with Paint.NET (my tool of choice because I'm more proficient with it). Now, so far I've been us...
I'm trying to learn and practice Photoshop in my free time. Been trying to recreate the text effect used on Gizmodo Brazil's logo but can't quite get it right. Can somebody guide me through? Here's the logo:
I know people prefer using CorelDraw or Adobe Illustrator, but I want to know if there is a technique I can follow to use Adobe Photoshop to make vector Images.
I have created a vector mask for a layer in Photoshop containing a circle. Now I would like to fine-tune its position and size. I can only move individual or multiple anchor points.
In CorelDraw and other vector programs there is a parameter upon attempting to export a PLT file that asks for plotter units. If i have a circle for example and i export it with 1016 PU and another that i export with 2032 PU is there a difference in exported quality?
Have an odd issue with Acrobat X, when selecting an object (Tools > Edit Object). I then right click and "Edit Object" which opens Illustrator CS5.1, make my necessary changes, which 9/10 is colour, MAKING SURE NOT TO MOVE ANY OF THE OBJECTS IN ILLUSTRATOR. I then click "Save" in Illustrator and my changes are saved ba...
I opened a new file and created my pattern, selected all and defined pattern. Then I closed the file without saving it and then used the pattern - great. Now is there a way to make changes to that pattern? The real problem is I need to used that pattern on my css, Though I can not remember what dimensions i used, so if...
I have a shape in Photoshop with some layer effects. When I go to convert that shape to a smart object, the drop shadow darkens. Prior to converting, the shape has a normal blend mode with opacity and fill set to 100%. Is there some way to convert the shape and keep the same drop shadow? Here is an image of what is hap...
We are working on a CSS framework for our app, having made the prototype with Twitter Bootstrap and we started by designing the elements of Bootstrap we had used. One of them was prepended and appended inputs Which is basically something that helps you recognize what the input is used for, it's not necessarily a label,...
What makes a design look old? How subjective is this? Who decides? Look at this Bell logo: It's from 1969. And boy, does it look that way. It's simple and minimal, but.. it looks old. Take a look the this BP logo: Old. And not too pretty. And yet.. someone thought it's a good idea. And something I find ridiculously...
Can someone please explain me how to save each slide of a gif animation as a png file in Adobe ImageReady?
I was reading this to understand sprites http://css-tricks.com/css-sprites/ The author says "Sprites are for graphics that are just single blocks. " What does this mean? One thing I have read is to make a sprite for images which are continuous on a web page. thanks
Bootstrap is a great framework, and I want know if there is a tool that gives you the possibility of dragging html components, re-sizing and moving them, changing colours, all while generating the bootstrap html code. I don't want to use Dreamweaver because you need to go and add classes and IDs to the html, which coul...
I loved this feature of Fireworks but since Fireworks is being discontinued I was wondering whether it's possible in Photoshop or other products. Thanks.
Just finished exporting a pdf that will be used to print off a 1m x 2m poster. The current file size of the pdf is a rather manic 142.3MB. Is this too big? Shall I compress it further?
Basically, I had a client who wanted a 1 meter by 2 meter poster to advertise his business at local football events and such. Though I'm predominantly a web-designer, I thought myself up to the challenge of print. I designed the proof in Photoshop, and that was all good. I then exported it to pdf with Indesign, and th...
I created a depth map based on an image of the back of a man wearing a coat. Now I want to apply an image to the depth map, giving the appearance that the image part of the jacket. How is this done?
In UI design, one often has to work in the confines of limited space and/or simply try to reduce overly excessive descriptions and such. Often, this results in using slashes a lot. This/that type of thing. I've been asked in the past to add spaces to each side of a slash to give it some 'breathing' room and while at ...
Imagine if I'm drawing an image using brushes. Is there by any chance, possible to use the brushes as a vector and resize/transform them, without losing data? For instance; if you draw a tree in with brushes. Then you want to scale it up by 50%. Is it possible to perform that scaling, without image starting to go blurr...
Why they add these vertical lines on the machine? I don't think it is just for fun, it must be have some meaning to add this. I don't think a designer will ignore the details, and also it is in the keyboard too.
I'm confused about the relationship of Photoshop (and any other image processing software) in web designing. I can see countless tutorials anywhere teaching on how to make web layouts from scratch, and most of them include the whole contents of a real web page. But it stops there. No further instructions are included o...
I'm quite new to Adobe Illustrator, but used to PS. I wanted to experiment with Illustrator to create SVGs that can than be manipulated with JavaScript. I created some kind of background-layer and filled it with a rect. That has a pattern as background-image (Adobes Waffelmuster - Doppelt). I then created a second laye...
It looks like this to me: Where the second box is the variable width option. If it helps I expanded my path.
Basically, I want to have my sketch have a solid color in the inside the path (with live paint), but the path itself that has a stroke, which looks like a border on the image, I want to be completely transparent, so when put on a background you can still see where the border would be, but the background will make it up...
I did a three-color Live Trace, and output the colors to swatches. Now I'd like to assign each of these three (spot) colors to their own layer. I'm sure this is super easy, and I'm just over-looking something, but I could find no obvious command, nor could I drag the swatches to the layers palette. Some googling brough...
I appreciate this question is borderline for this site (apologies), but I checked the FAQs and I think it is permitted. I'm investigating ways to get single-colour text onto a thick plastic sheet, such as plastic business cards. There seem to be a host of options: pad printing, screen printing, flat-bed printing (inkje...
I'm learning digital painting in Photoshop, beginner level. I start with a composition in grey-scale, Let's say it is a mountain landscape in perspective with darkest object closest to viewer (a tree on a cliff) and lighter grey the further off into the horizon objects are (mountains). Now I want to start applying col...
I have an white icon that needs to be colorized to a specific color. How do I do it in GIMP? Keep in mind that it has semi transparent borders and transparent background, so using the bucket or selections is a no-go. Also, I would appreciate if someone could extend the answer to "how to paint something that's has trans...
I need to create a logo design similar to the icons for Office 2013: Can anyone help me with font name as I am not able to find it
This question has probably been asked, but I can't find it, exactly. I'm a bit of a noob, and am unclear on some of the terminology. How do you combine all adjoining objects of the same color, all in one fell swoop? This is different from "Grouping" them, is it not? Perhaps some explanation is in order. I did a Live T...
Here is my dilemma. I am making a scrolling text gif. I need the background on this gif to be transparent with a white box centered in the middle with the text showing ONLY in the white box. This means that the text needs to only show up on the box and not the transparent background.
Why, after a Live Trace, when you Output to Swatches, do you always end up with a bunch of Unused Swatches? What are their purpose, assuming they have one? I see a lot articles explaining how to delete them, but nothing on why they're there to begin with.
I have to design a 4 item iOS tab bar. One of the items is a call-to-action button for creating content. Typically, apps have 5 items, so it is natural to place the call-to-action in the middle for balance. This is an example: How would you maintain balance with an even number of items?
There was a famous blog post by Ian Taylor called "Never use black", in which he explained that one should never use pure, complete RGB 0-0-0 black, and should instead put a little bit of color or light into it. Does the same principle apply for white? Is is possible to use pure RGB 255-255-255 white in, say, a poster ...
The goal Replace individual colors in a multi-layer Photoshop document in a way that is flexible and efficient enough to be done a multiple times in the production process—like when I need to update the colors or edit layer content. I have a palette of 5-10 colors used in many different layers (all layers are multi-col...
From time to time I have to write a small report and usually I end up having to present data in a table. Everytime I end up thinking that a table is an ugly looking rectangular box I wish I could leave out. I don't have any degree in design, but I would like to know how I can make my tables look more smooth and blend b...
I have a 90 frame gif and if I file-import-videoframes-to-layers it will make 30 layers and the .gif will end up flashing too much. Any ideas?
I have to design a flyer for half of an 81/2 x 11 page. It mostly has images but some text. And I'm designing it in GIMP. Is there an industry standard dpi for simple prints? It's not magazine quality, but I'm looking for a decent dpi.
Is there a tool inside or outside of Adobe Illustrator which packs custom shapes inside an (say) A4 page? This would be an optimization for printing the same element multiple times on the same page. Example doodle: This example involves rotation, but it'd be ok without too.
I want to create just a transparent shadow to use in a website. While saving as PNG, the shadow is saving with the solid white border. What am I doing wrong?
I'm involved in the production of a touchscreen device. Our workflow for designing the graphics of the interface is to create the buttons, text, etc in Illustrator, bring it into Photoshop as Smart Objects, and later flatten the smart objects, but beyond that is not pertinent to this question. [EDIT: Each screen is sav...
Using the pen tool, I can't imagine why anyone would want the following line segment to go in the ( random ? ) angle it chooses for you when making a new anchor point. After making every line, I tediously have to go back and close the bezier by clicking on my point again to make the next line start a "fresh angle". Is ...
When you ctrl+ left-Click, it's like a right-click in Mac OS X and brings up a menu. I'm trying to clone a selected rectangle as shown here But if I ctrl+alt+ click, I just get a context menu because Mac OS X is thinking I'm right-clicking. How do I do this? I know I can copy/paste/move. But I want the shortcut method....
I downloaded a number of Farsi fonts and they render individual characters fine but but don't join multiple characters together at all. Does anyone know how to get whole words to appear correctly? If someone knows how to do this in Arabic but not Farsi, that would help me get closer. For instance: ك ا should make كا T...
Situation: I want to use the current selection as a mask on layer X. Layer X already has a mask, and I want to completely replace it. If layer X didn't already have a mask, I could do this in one step by clicking Add layer mask in the Layers palette. Given that layer X already has a mask, what is the quickest way to do...
What licensing is appropriate for a font to be used as a base for an icon font? So basically I need to use the UNICODE table of that font to include custom icons and sell that font. Most of the free fonts out there are SIL, but I definitely don't want to include any license notice for the base font, since this is not...
I want to fill an object with a bitmap pattern. Instead of perfectly connecting, there is this 1 pixel transparent line around each "tile" of the filled object. The same problem was described here: Filling object with pattern in inkscape In reference to this post, the bug was fixed in 0.48.3, but I'm using 0.48.4 r9939...
Photoshop layer styles now have strange defaults on my system, seems like all values are scaled up. I don't know when or how it has happened. Eg: Bevel size: 84px Stroke size: 52px Inner shadow distance, size: 84px Inner glow size: 84px Drop shadow distance, size: 84px ... reset to default also brings these values...
Is anyone aware of a wireframing kit for Illustrator (or any vector based template) that encompasses GUI elements from Mac OSX Lion or Mountain Lion?
I was making some pixel art and at some point I doubled the image size so now in order to continue to make my nice squares I want the pixel tool to be an 8x8 pixel square tip. Is it possible?
I am trying to crop an element in photoshop and I want to make sure it is perfect. I have a PSD that has many web elements that are grouped together nicely. I want to create a new image with the same size as the group of layers. So basically I want to crop something out of the picture without losing or gaining pixels. ...
Say I have the following picture that I drew with a black brush then used Live Paint to color it. How do I get rid of the black stroke?
I've been creating an arrow in Sketch and whenever I adjust the Size property of the border, it decides to burst out the side of the < part of the arrow. Is there anyway to fix this, or am I messing with the wrong value?
I am not much of a designer. I want to know how I can create Wix like buttons in Photoshop. They offer many kinds of buttons, but I want the one with a shadow on both sides of its bottom. Any help would be appreciated.
Is there a set formula / ratio for creating a trademark symbol (TM) or adjusting numerals such as 2nd or 3rd to create the proper visual effect on the superscript? Currently I always just eyeball it to make it look right. Is there a set standard for this though?
I'm trying to draw another shape to go with this heart, and I want the line on which the anchor is selected to have exactly the same curvature as the corresponding length on the heart. Is this possible, or is the only way to eyeball it?
What hardware do I need to make a 300dpi 2000mm x 1200mm illustrator files rich with 2 x layers of jpeg artwork and 1 x layer of vector? I suspect the final files for printing will be in excess 1GB but will wait and see (printer has requested orginal ai files). Our current machines are not up to the job so we need som...
I have drawn a broom in Illustrator and cant apply any brushes or strokes to it. I just don't get it. What do I have to do? Here is a screenshot:
I'm working on a file in photoshop and every time I drag a guide out I see multiple guides. How can I fix this so only one guide is present? I tried restarting photoshop but the problem persisted.
The way I have just learned to use the Pen tool, if you hold Cmd/Ctl while selecting the end of a guideline, it will move the guideline on BOTH sides of the anchor point and adjust the last curve that was made. Conversely, if you hold Opt while selecting the same point, it will leave the curve as is and simply adjust t...
I know this is a ridiculously basic question, but I cannot seem to do it for the life of me, even though I did it just 5 minutes ago... I'm trying to copy the path on the right over to the left side of the heart. Even though only the right "lung" section is selected with the move tool (and Auto-select "Layer"), both t...
My question: Can I create a magazine exclusively using Photoshop? My understanding: It should simply be a case of using CMYK and an adequately high resolution. Other software: InDesign is pretty alien to me though I've read that it's better for managing large amounts of text. Request for additional context: Any links t...
Is there a simple summary somewhere (or can someone provide one) of all the different kinds of legal terms for how and where we can re-use someone else's images? For example these terms are bandied about and they all sound reasonably similar: Royalty-Free Creative Commons (which seems to have a bunch of subcategories) ...
I need to know what font is this. Thanks so much!
I generated on the internet this tartan design: Now I want to get this design as a vector graphic built in Adobe Illustrator. Is there a trick to get 45 degree lines on the squares? Or does anybody has an tutorial on this?
I'm doing the layout (first time) for a friends charity magazine, last minute as the usual girl quit just before it was due, so panic time there. I'd saved the individual pages (as I'd been asked) as individual press quality PDFs - now the printer has asked if I can save again as a pdf but as either printers spread or...
How to get inner shadow inside rectangle with transparent background?
I am not much of a designer. Looks like a very basic thing to do but i don't know how to do it. I just want to create a line that is blurred from the ends and have this shade at the bottom of it. Its a kind of a separator that i can use on a website. I want to do it in Photoshop. As an example, check out the following ...
I've researched for what seems forever, and I cannot find anything explaining how to break a mesh into a (distorted) grid of vector shapes. I don't need to preserve any kind of gradient or coloring; I just, at least, need to keep the shape of the outline of the figure and convert it into a basic shape. The concept is, ...
I'm in storyboard hell. I have to place about 400 separate images in sequence on a huge board in photoshop. So I have a 20,000 px by 10,000 px board and a load of layers which have been imported in the correct sequence, I really really want to find a nice way of distributing the layers edge to edge left-to-right then c...
I know that Inkscape does not have the ability to export selected objects as svg, but is there a workaround that people have found that works?
Is there any way to convert 'AI' and 'EPS' to corel draw format (.cdr)? My client want to rework from their existing AI and EPS to corel draw.
I bought a drawing tablet. But when I draw on it, I can see the drawing I am making in an image editing software such as Microsoft Paint or on Microsoft Office products, but I cannot see anything on the drawing tablet. It is rather disappointing. It's just like a mouse in a different shape. I was hoping that when I dra...
What is the name of the technique where many small images are copied into one large image to get better compression and avoid loading many separate images int memory? And is this still useful in modern devices?
My question is an extension from this question ( Batch export Photoshop layers to individual PNG files ), but for some reason, I can't seem to contact any of the posters from that thread. Basically, I want to do that same process, but instead of just doing the top layers, I want to do the layers that are inside a folde...
I had no problems creating a grid like in the figure, but I can't create sharp edges at the end of the grid: How can I do this?
I'm attempting to create a transparent stroke around the inner heart shape, which knocks out the "lungs" layer below to reveal the red bottom layer. I seemed unable to create this as an actual stroke (which, in any case, would only reveal the "lung" shapes below it, not the red bottom layer), and my next attempt was t...
I find myself clicking on the auto select layer check box an egregious amount during the day. I was wondering if someone knew how to make it a hot key as that would save me quite a bit of time.
From a personal point of view, I'm convinced you have to enjoy going to the place you work in. Improving your day to day experience feels revolutionary enough for me. I also think design and usability can improve not only the way a company thinks about new products and customers think about the company, but also how t...
Newbie here. I like the web and UI design, and I know what good UI and good design is, but I lack Photoshop skills. Sometimes when I try to do design work my mind goes blank or gets mixed up because there are too many references that I like and it's hard for me to determine which design I prefer. Where can I learn and...
This font was created using Adobe CS4 and I am using Corel Draw 6. I cannot id this font and need to do so to create more graphics using it. What is this font?:
in a smashing magazine article, I read "According to our study, on average, the ratio between the headline and the body copy is around 2.5" - and this is the formula HEADLINE ÷ BODY COPY = 2.5 Does it mean that if my body copy is 16px, by heading one <h1> should be 40px (16 x 2.5). The only reason I think I am wrong is...
I found a similar thread that gave some great pointers, but still doesn't solve my issue. My boss asked me to create a corporate presentation, and I had the unfortunate idea of doing it all in photoshop (I figured it would allow greater flexibility than the usual powerpoint). I created 24 slides at 3000x2000px and 300d...
I need to convert some stock icon imagery to a pre-existing colour scheme. The method for conversion is to simply adjust the image hue to the right level. However all I have to go on is existing imagery that has already undergone the process. As such, I know that the muddy green of 99b963 should become the dull mauve o...
I think what I may be looking for exists in Fireworks maybe, but I haven't messed with it. Basically, is there a way to make a style sheet for an object? Say I have an object and I apply x layer styles to it, then I want all those layer styles on multiple objects throughout a document. Then I want to change the strengt...
I'm curious which pricing model other feel best fits freelance design, in what situations, and why. I am not seeking dollar values. There are a few basic pricing models a freelancer can use: Time-based pricing. This is where you calculate every minute you work on a project and break that down to your hourly rate and ...
I'm working on a project that needs a font very similar to the types used in television broadcasts of sports games to display the score and other info. I would love to know if there are any industry standard or common fonts, particularly in NBA broadcasts. Example:
Prior to the proliferation of software, namely Adobe and Aldus, a designer needed an entire toolbox full of things to get a job done. From t-squares and triangles, to ruling pens, masking tape, photo tape, rubber cement, spray glue, brushes, guache, drawing tables, technical pens, matte board, acetate, pica poles, fren...
In website I am implementing I found that the maximum number of characters that I can display in a certain sidebar div is 17 M (uppercase M) plus the elipses. So that is the maximum I setup the code to produce ... if the text is longer than 17 characters it will be truncated and an elipses will be attached to the end. ...
I have heart shape, below, that is on a separate layer to the two lungs. How do I take this shape and use it as a layer mask on the two lungs? I have created the layer mask on the lungs layer, but I'm not sure how to copy the shape over. It's bitmap, but I'd also be interested to know how to do it for a vector shape a...
I know how to do this for all of the layer styles of a particular layer - I simply hover over any of them, right-click and click "Create Layers" from the contextual menu. Does anybody know how/if it's possible to simply do this for one of a layer's layer styles rather than all of them?
I have a text paragraph. Is there a way of resizing it without having to pull the box or stretch it? (ex. Let's say it's 50px high, how can I define the size of it using pixels to 100px?) EDIT: How about an extension?
I'm not sure if illustrator supports just changing the background color of one artboard but what I am looking to do is have one black background artboard and leave the other five or six artboards in my project white or transparent. What i'm trying to do here is make a white version of our corporate logo. It's hard to d...
I'm trying to output a .gif from Photoshop (CS6) and have run into some difficulty with the quality it is producing. Ideally, each image should resemble these stills - 1, 2 and 3 which are crisp and clear, but as a .gif file (especially on the second image), the depth and colours are removed, resulting in a splotchy i...
I'm making a work for school and I have to put together color palettes for some pictures. I also want to indicate the RGB and the CMYK code but when I get a color from a picture with the Eyedropper Tool I only get the RGB. I assume it is so because the picture is in RGB mode. How can I get in a fast way the corresponde...
How can I remove a smaller rectangular part from another bigger rectangle shape layer in Adobe Photoshop? My selected layout is 110px x 110px on which I have drawn a rectangle of 106px x 104px. Now I want to remove a 100px x 70px rectangle from the top 17px. The result would be another rectangle of 100px x 70px in the...
When I create cross-references to other documents, InDesign gets very slow accessing to disk all the time (I can see the Windows icon) unless I open all related documents. Is there a way to deactivate this behavior within InDesign? I am using Indesign CS4 on Windows 7.

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