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The most known way to get into Isolation Mode in Adobe Illustrator is by double-clicking on the image. Nonetheless, is there a way I can get into this mode from the Layers panel?
Sans-serif typeface is usually in web, so what are the free/open/cross-platform choices that can replace Helvetica? By replacing Helvetica I mean are there any font which is better than Helvetica for web? The reason I ask is I have read an article demoing Helvetica is often not the best choice for web. So probably two ...
I'm building my portfolio, and rather than handing out hundreds of various designs, I want to put several items on one page. But I also want to illustrate what they are, such as a tri-fold or magazine. Is there a template to show the folded item, or magazine pages to actually look like a magazine, rather than a flat im...
Is there an easy way to take four objects that are in the same location? The objects are pasted on top of each other, and arrange them into two rows and two columns without scrambling them manually, selecting two, aligning them left, selecting another two, aligning them to the bottom, etc.
I'm a software developer looking for some sketching app for a tablet. In my daily business I need to sketch a lot of technical concepts. Instead of composing them out of a palette of predefined shapes I want to draw them with a pencil on a tablet and let the app recognize certain shape patterns and smooth them. What ...
I have a large image that I want to cut up in to 25px * 25px squares. I haven't used web slices before created a square slice, copy/pasted it in all the places I needed it, then selected them all and clicked Export Slice. However, this gives me 25px * 25px squares. Is it possible for me to export these slices, but with...
I'm about to start working on some mobile Windows 8 apps, and I'm a bit confused about the recommended resolutions, sizes and ratios for supporting different devices. For iPhone, for example, I normally create mockups of 960×640px, for iPad 2048x1536px and so on. But I'm lost about size for Win8, and especially for Win...
I'm new to Photoshop, and am teaching myself. In playing with the pen and custom shape tool I've noticed that the Fill and Stroke settings for "Shape" appear to be locked. I cannot click to change them and don't get any kind of drop down like in other tools. I've tried making sure I'm on the right layer, but that's abo...
There are few ok tuts online, but I haven't found a way to give an image the marblelized clear shiny opacity like real stain glass. Any tips? Stain glass filter applied Lower opacity Play with waves filter?
I have a bunch of text point objects and I'd like to select a subset of them and change their font size (for example). They might be in different groups so I can't select them all at once, so I select a few change the font size, then I select a few more, and change the font size manually again. I'm wondering if there i...
I would like to identify the font in this image to add more text.
Ok, so I am trying to do my first theme, a Tumblr page theme for bookshelf pages. My vision was basing it on iOS iBooks. There are some minor details which I don't know. I really want to know what the FONT of the header bar of iBooks and the HTML Colour code, hexadecimal or other equivalent codes which will lead me to...
Naturally you would expect that a graphic designer is proficient in logo, print and web graphics, but what else do clients commonly request? (Web, email, motion graphics, 3D animation etc...) I've heard a few times over my graphics/design career that it is better to be an expert at a couple of things, rather than a "Ja...
I am a web developer and want to make a physical portfolio. I have tried various settings in photoshop and for my printer (HP officejet pro 8600) and my lighter theme web sites come out fine but my darker themed websites are too dark and have little contrast between dark colors. I added a filter and lightened the image...
I have messed around with a few options, but have not come up with a good solution to recreate this gradient drop shadow effect.
I have a scan of an old anatomic atlas; it's grayscale and not really bright. I suppose it's a copy of an engraving. My question is: is it possible to remove this background relatively easy? Or magnet lasso will be the only option?
Folks, I've been looking all over for a plugin or brush that will help me take a photo and reduce it to that 'electric look' (or fractal?) that i'm seeing in various places. I'd vastly prefer one for Gimp. Does anyone know how these are being done? I'm seening references to fractalius for photoshop, but what about gim...
I ask this question based on an incident I saw on Dribbble. I am not going to say names or point fingers but a particular person had used someone else's designs as part of a demo and the owner was livid. With that said I wanted to know: What is a good way to approach other designers? Is it bad practice to use other ...
What are some awesome ways to blend anti aliased edges of an object that has been extracted, lets say from dark background, or any light/dark unique color. And needs to be placed on different most likely on opposite color. Like object taken from black on white. -Removing all pixels doesnt help. It makes it look extra c...
I have an SVG file that has, say, 10 g elements that do not start at (0,0). For example: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!-- Generator: Adobe Illustrator 16.0.1, SVG Export Plug-In . SVG Version: 6.00 Build 0) --> <!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd"...
Is there a way to copy a part of an object in illustrator? I do not know the technical name of the effect I need to do, so I have to describe it. I need to do the effect where you have an image and then you have a square on the image and a couple lines connecting to a zoomed in shot of that square (if there is a name ...
So, I'm using adobe illustrator for creating vectorial figures, mainly for graphs. In illustrator, creating graphs is not so well implemented, so I'm using another tool to make them (e.g. R, xmgrace, pyx, mathematica), and them export as PDF and "place" them in the illustrator, for further modifications and adjustments...
Is it possible to change the way the Blend tool works here? What if I need the Blend tool draw the crossing not under the cross but above? Right where I drew the red lines on the screenshot.
I am looking for a font for my wedding invitation. I like Zapfino One but I think it is not readable enough for an invitation. Especially the letter "f" is very large. Is there any professional looking font which is similar to Zapfino One but a bit more readable for my purpose? If not are there any other suggestions? F...
Bit of a spin off of this question... Do you tell the client if you are sub-contracting their work? Morally is it an obligation, or do you pass it off as your own? When choosing collaborators, do you work with people who have a similar design style as you, or someone who produces a completely different feel? How does t...
I am used to editing vector graphics in FontLab, which allows you to simplify vectors like this: The behavior I'm used to If I delete a point from a curve, the program will roughly maintain the original shape by adjusting the handles of neighbouring points to compensate. Result: A curve that looks roughly like the ori...
It would be helpful if anyone can identify this font, or something similar. I've tried the What The Font search engine, however it gave me not so good results.
I am trying to print my 4" x 6" book from InDesign CS6 to my home printer. The book has about 100 pages, a perfect bound book with a few front pages and a table of contents. I want to print the pages in the right order as 2up, centered & double-sided, onto 8.5" x 11" paper which I will then have cut down into individua...
My designer is out of reach, he has designed a logo but now there is a need to write PRO on the lower right corner of it(as written in various other logos), I am an amateur in designing, can anybody tell me how to do that in Gimp. Thanks in Advance
I have a 20 concentric circles in Inkscape, not filled, with a white semi-transparent border. Like this: When I export it to PDF, the circles are resized and they become ellipses, revealing the background behind them: Any idea why and how to avoid this? Here are the svg and pdf files: https://www.dropbox.com/s/91nj...
I'm wondering: If you were [conditional, I'm not asking for people who were actually there] an art (or printing, or advertisement, I'm not sure what the title would have been back then) student or professional in the 70s, what would you be talking about with with your classmates/colleagues? I don't mean what would you...
How would I go about making a texture similar to the one used throughout this site: Is it some kind of noise pattern?
I'm starting to learn SVG graphics coding, but I'm looking for something with a WYSIWYG kind of thing. Does such a thing exist? And what would you advise me to make the learning process faster?
I am trying to join two shapes (figure - a) in Illustrator, And I want the effect should be like this (figure - b). I tried Unite option in Pathfinder, but that makes a big rectangle. Please note: after joining I want one middle cut inside the rectangle. Any idea?
What is the best colors for logo of a IT/Web Dev company? I have created sample.
How would I go about creating an effect such as the people in this image. I like the simplicity of only a few colors and shapes. Is there a filter I could use?
I'm trying to mix both uppercase and lowercase of a font together for a logo, but increasing the lowercase font to match makes the font weight a bit bigger so it looks messed up. Is there a simple way to achieve this? Intended Effect: What I end up getting (notice the increased weight on the 'a')
In Photoshop, I want to create 3 different sizes of the same logo. There will be some differences in the look of the logo depending on target screen size. I believe the slice tool is what I want but I'm not sure. I've been learning more about the slice tool. It seems if I use it for creating differently sized logos,...
Sometimes when I click a color with the eye dropper in Photoshop CS 6, the color of a text layer in my document will change to that color. Oddly enough, this happens only one and I cannot duplicate it. I do not know how/why that happens and would love to know. To the more pressing matter at hand: After I have designed ...
Lorem Ipsum has been the known default for dummy text. Per a search the last discussion in regards to alternatives is two years old. I thought I would post a new thread on this topic. So, what are updated alternatives to Lorem Ipsum?
What I'm trying to achieve is here: The Volcano by Yoga Perdana Not the logo itself but the mockup that's used. The paper kind of look with the tiny white specs and scratches here and there. It looks spectacular, it really does. I've thought of so many ways on how to do this, and I just can't think of anything. I real...
This is the initial registration page for my client's communication app. ( I covered over the logo - note the white box - for his privacy) I do not like that the "y" descends and the "h" ascends into the same space. makes the two lines a bit too cramped. Any suggestions? (the app's font is roboto. Here - I'm using Ro...
Is there a command-line program (for Linux) that can convert an image to ascii art and then save that output as an image e.g. jpg or png? To illustrate what I'm in need of, I want to convert the image below into ascii art The output that I desire from a program should be similar to this one, which was created by takin...
1) By File -> Automate -> Fit Image..., we can fit images of any size or orientation into a particular frame size. But we cannot specify the resample method, like Bicublic Sharper. In fact we do not know what resample method it uses. 2) By Image -> Image Size..., we can control the resample methods. But for batch proce...
Our normal workflow with CS5 was printing the .psd to .ps (postscript), and then processing the .ps with Distiller to .pdf. Under CS6, I don't know if it's me or the version I am using, but all .psd files print to .ps as 8.5x11. The Print Settings Position and Size attributes are as followed: Scale: 100%, Height: ...
What is the name of this font? I have checked in many sites but could not get a proper answer. Might be this the same font used in oracle logo.
I have quite a simple problem but after much searching I can find how to do it. Basically, I have a folder of shapes and a Gradient Overlay applied to the folder to apply to all shapes. This looks all well and good but if I then move the shapes folder anywhere else on the page the shapes' color changes. This makes me t...
The era of computers makes it easy to regulate brand consistency - you can e-mail anyone your branding guidelines in a PDF and it will have all the information they need. However, I still sometimes struggle to acquire the files I need from clients (no, please do not fax me your logo). I can't imagine how difficult my j...
Can anyone please help me with the following? I am a low-level dabbler, but these things have been nagging at me for years. I know I've been doing everything the hard way, and my hope is that knowing these answers will help me to continue enjoying playing with graphics. What are the effects of doing the following? cre...
Is there any way to get the width of the text inside a paragraph box? The measurement would not take into account the wrapping. That is, it would equal the sum of each wrapped line. I'm not asking about the width of the box. For example, let's say I have a paragraph text containing the string, "!!!!!". In Arial at 12pt...
I was interested to know what some go by when meeting with a new client and discussing their options and trying to figure out what they want and how you can execute. I typically set aside 30-45 mins to meet with a potential client and bill it in the back end if they decide to start the ball. However I know, and have ...
When I am having an object of any size (in this case it will be 300px x 300 px), I need a tool like a brush. For example, I want first pixel on the top left to be black, second pixel on the top left - red, but what I am calling a pixel is not actually a pixel, it is a pixel-sized vector. Color Eyedropper Tool [Sample ...
I'm using this template: (source) I have my own image that is 1136 * 640: the size of the smart object that depicts the contents of the iPhone 5 screen. When I drop my image onto the smart object, it is 1.5x the normal size (stretched) and I can't use Free Transform, as it's greyed out. What am I doing wrong?
Is there a way to convert Corel Draw version 11 files to version X3 files? I have files in Corel Draw 11 to be converted to the X3 version.
So I am using templates, and can override the locked master items (e.g. text boxes and headers) yet cannot seem to unlock an image (which I am using as a placeholder to replace with the correct image every time I use the template.) On most items on the page, I unlock by pressing cmd + shift and clicking on the the dott...
I ask these questions to know what some would do when faced with an art form you have experience with but it is being replaced by better technology. I shall use two examples: Bending neon is a great art form and many years ago it was the standard for lighted signage. Lately with the better machines and tools for chan...
I have versions CS4 through CS6 (ETA and now current to CC18). I have a nice numbered list and I'd like to align things. Is there any way to set up tabs rather than letterspacing or splitting the text into separate layers? (I can recreate the text in Illustrator and import it, but I'd like to know if I can do this tas...
Currently I am creating .psd images "to scale" by changing the ppi so that 1mm = 1mm. This way I can drop the image in InDesign and it will print at the actual size. I cannot however find a way for Lightroom to export a jpg without altering the ppi, so I instead have to open it with photoshop again and export it there....
I cannot figure out how to go about making a pattern similar to this one: I know it must be relatively simple but I cannot wrap my mind around creating a consistent repeating pattern. thanks!
Curious to know what key elements out there that some use or see that defines a design as vintage. I know some would consider vintage by the typography or pattern used in the design but what are other elements that are key to define vintage? Per the design below would it be defined vintage based on: color palette? ty...
Is there any professional software (for Mac) that I can use to replace some of the adobe software like InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator? I don’t mean one that replaces all, but the equivalent of each one.
So, I decided to try freehanding a design, and I used the pencil tool. Then I was working with it. But somewhere along the line, my curve turned into a beizer guide, which I don't want and will probably never need. Then, by accident, I right-clicked and hit "Make Guides" without realizing it. It's already been saved a...
I'm making a website that only has text, and a small amount. What would be a good layout for it? Should I put the text in the top left? Center screen? Somewhere else? The site is a download verification page, a purchase verification page, or a page telling the user his action was completed successfully, etc. About imag...
I've seen quite a few of these humanoid creatures around the internet: How do I go about making one of these? Can I make a basic model from cylindrical sections for each joint and then rotate them according to the action?
I am designing a music-based mobile app that will need lots of instrument graphics and sounds bytes, etc. Would I be in legal trouble if I photographed my Fender guitars and used these photographs in my commercial app? Could I even reference them as 'Fender guitars' and use their actual model name, etc?
I have two illustrator projects that represent a warehouse floor layout. Both projects have the same layers (same names, same color). One project is the entire floor layout on one artboard and the other project has 8 artboards that I've used to break things apart to make viewing easier. I have a lot of updates from the...
I am have created an image that has elements in it from another image that I didn't have a psd for. The elements in question are black(#000000). How exactly can I change all of these elements to a different color(#292929). I would need for it to basically change all elements that are black in the image to that color. C...
I'm trying to identify a typeface from an 1800s book. It has a strange shape to the uppercase N (and also to the A) with a ball serif where I wouldn't have expected one. Does anyone know a font similar to this?
I started a tiny CSS framework recently. (http://mincss.com if anyone's interested) I quickly banged out an initial design for some buttons. After asking for feedback on UX StackExchange (and receiving lots of good feedback), I was recommended to come here for additional advice on improving them. This is what they look...
We're completely color illiterate on our team. Our internal site has a lot of black and white, but I've heard that too much contrast is bad. And people don't respond well to the look of our site. Where can we go for guidance about default colors for text and background?
I am trying to find the font used in Return to Ravenhearst game. A screenshot of the text of which I am looking is: I have tried WhatTheFont and similar services, but they are very sensitive.
Does anyone know if it's possible to create a new document in illustrator that is boundless? And once you have entered all the content you define the size before exporting?
I don't really want to go into too much detail, but my life took an unexpected turn and I haven't been able to transfer into a 4 year college. I only have an AA degree but I've taken loads of random classes and also have a couple of certificates. I've been working at a completely unrelated job for the last 6 years but...
I am a newbie in making pictures and animations. I have found a nice .svg picture on wikipedia and now I am assuming what tools the author used. I know that I can make this picture with Microsofts' paint or gimp too, but I am searching for an tool that is easily to use for making such animations.
I'm looking to find this unique font in this logo: I can't seem to find it anywhere since most of the letters are unique. I've tried uploading it to the first 5 links on Google for "find font by image" but nothing comes close.
I have two separate but related needs. First, the website. It is almost mostly forms (data entry) and tables. For many of the tables, I need a narrow or condensed font. I'm currently using OpenSans and OpenSansCondensed, both at 9pt. It seems to work ok, but would there be something better? Second, reports. These are t...
Lubuntu, a flavor of Ubuntu, ships with a few icon themes including elementary. Since many of the icons are .svg files, it's somewhat easy to make minor tweaks to suit one's visual preferences. While doing so, I noticed a feature common to several .svg icons which I don't understand. I hope to illustrate this feature w...
Ok, I'm an Illustrator noob, but I've worked in screen printing. I made a design which is composed of an expanded Live Trace, a couple of rectangles with fills and strokes, and some text within said rectangles/boxes. It's a simple design and we have three spot colors, black, red, and yellow. So my idea is (was) to fla...
I have 2 shapes (see below) a circle and a shape of the US. I want to remove the part of the US that falls outside the circle. How is this possible? Thanks
I felt in love with the way this graphic designer, called Mariusz, has edited this picture. It would be fun to produce something like this for myself. Anyone has some ideas on how to create such a nice color effect in Photoshop or Gimp?
I realize this is an unfortunately vague question. I happen to be working with a designer with really awesome lettering skills, and we were hoping to create a couple fonts in .otf files. We are at a bit of a loss at how to go about doing this nicely. The fonts created using http://www.myscriptfont.com really aren't re...
Sumopaint is an online photoshop like web-based utility, I am trying to open a psd file with the free online version but it does not open. Can we open a psd file with Sumopaint, if yes how?
For a web game logo I keep around a Gimp file 1024x1024-logo.xcf which has 3 layers: Text (the game name) Picture of 2 playing cards Blue background as a linear gradient Now I have received a new requirement to provide a new logo at the dimensions 392x240. Using Image -> Scale Image with those dimensions would give m...
I am looking for a software to draw a diagram like the one in this picture.
I have some GIF files that are not observing transparency when I load them in .NET, via System.Drawing.Image.FromFile(). However, I have a some others that do. When I have a look at the color palette, the ones that do work have argb(0,255,255,255) and the ones that don't work have argb(0,0,0,0). Is it possible to chang...
I wonder if anybody knows a decent solution to manage Fonts over dropbox. I use FontExplorer Pro. And tried to do something with Symlinks. It's a complete mess. Does anybody know if other apps like Suitcase Fusion work better than FontExplorer with dropbox?
I'm trying to produce the effect in the below image: I'd preferably like to do this with Photoshop or Illustrator. How can this be accomplished?
I'm trying to re-organize a project that has gotten a lot of objects stuck in the wrong layers. For some reason when I select a group of objects and try to move them to another artboard my paste in place command does not move them to the new layer I select. If I try a standard paste operation and choose to re-align the...
Here's what I'd like to do. textLayer.textItem.position[0] = 200; I would expect this to change the x-coordinate of the text box to 200px from the canvas origin. The value does not get assigned. Anybody know what I'm missing?
If you were to hire a graphic designer to pretty up your web pages, would you hire him/her if the person has no experience in JavaScript but has a very good understanding of HTML and CSS? How important is it for a graphic designer to understand web technologies for him/her to be able to perform effectively at their jo...
I am trying to create a horizontal layout list of items for a promotional poster. It is much like a music festival line-up poster. After each list item I need a custom bullet or separator. After the last item on a line the separator needs to be skipped. This is true also for each item that stands alone on a line. I kno...
I am trying to achieve this noisy background behind the cards. How can I recreate this effect?
I would like to replicate the antialiasing made by my browser in photoshop. Look at this picture: It is 500% image of standard 13px Arial #464646 font. First line is screenshot from browser(chrome), other lines are some of the antialiasing options from PS. Notice the color change on the first line. Does it have somethi...
We have a base design for a web site which includes different control and thier placement which is mostly constant. Every time we get a new requirement, what we have to do is copy the old design and just change the skin (Font Color, Font Style, Background, ForeColor etc). Problem is that we get new design in PSD and t...
I have checked in many like sites but could not get a proper answer. The given image is the logo of Nicholls Colonels, which is a baseball team.
I'm listening to the new song by Boards of Canada, and looking at the fine artwork. –Avant Garde, that's a nice one, I think to myself. But when I try it out on the poster I'm working on I notice a slight difference from the cover artwork The M and W has got an even thickness as opposed to the traditional Avant Garde...
I am trying to recreate this effect (see photo) from the HipMunk Android app and I am having some issues as the shadow is coming out other sides on the shape. I just want the shadow out of the right side. Let me know. Thanks!
I am getting a product label printed and the printer is asking that the text in the PSD file to be identified as PMS colors. I renamed the title of the layers to the specific color (e.g. Pantone 116) but I guess that is not enough. Below is the message sent by the printer. "The text is still being called out as 4 colo...
A friend of mine is in need of some graphic design work. I'm trying to explain to him that his make-me-something-like-X-but-different-approach is not a very good way to communicate his needs. We tried to write down some of the specifics that a graphic designer would need in order to limit the back & forth of "not getti...
After loading a large group of vector (*.ai) files, I tried individually going through to change each one's color (they're basic, monochrome vectors). After pasting the hex value into the object's fill-color, the object will change color - but the document name will not show a star, indicating it hasn't been saved. Fur...

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