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Imagine I have a black disc. I would like to create a gradient around the disc, whose value is white 100% opacity on the border of the disc and white 0% opacity at the end of the gradient. Now, replace the disc with any other object : I want to do something similar. Is it possible ?
Many designs use one typeface for body text and another, contrasting typeface for headings. Is there an "official" term typographers use for the contrasting typeface in a design?
I have a gradient, somewhat glossy one which I cannot just repeat. There is some text on it. Is there any tool in PS to remove this text?
I have downloaded some psd templates that I must edit. In this case, I am attempting to continue the red bar across the black area that currently divides it. It is in bitmap form, however (no layer effects I can look at), so I'm wondering what the best way would be to make the red bar look like it seamlessly continues across this black gap? Thank you in advance.
I've selected the below area in my image. I then switch to the move tool, but when I drag around the selection, the pixels that it had encompassed do not move with it. Would be great to know what I'm doing wrong :) Thank you in advance.
I've been struggling with this for some time now. The tool is set to pencil tool. The color is set to black. The layer is at the top of the layer stack. But still it won't draw a simple line. Interesting thing though: if I bump up the size of the pencil tip and draw back and forth, I get some random bits drawn in. Using CS5. Thanks for your help.
I'm trying to convert a PDF to a vector image so that I can display it online. When I convert it to SVG, it doesn't convert the font glyphs correctly. When I convert to SWF, it is perfect, but I would rather use SVG. SVG Rendering (download link): Click image for full size PDF Rendering (download link): Click image for full size What is going on? Is SWF superior to SVG or is this because of a bad converter?
So I have a basic 50 pt line selected, go over to the right to open the Gradient panel, but the stroke option - the word stroke and the three boxes next to it - are greyed out and unclickable. I've searched the internet, tried doing different random things in the program (as I am brand new to it), and even tried uninstalling and reinstaling the program but nothing seems to work. It seems as if this option is permanently disabled, which makes no sense. Someone please help.
I have seen a lot of very different tutorials about how to remove blue lines from a scanned drawing. So I ask myself what is the best way in term of simplicity and quality to do this in Photoshop (CS3 and above). And also, is the choice of the blue color really the best, or there are other better colors in order to obtain a clean final drawing with the sole black lines?
I have this image: It's only 19ppi. I want to create a vector from it so that it can scale up up to 11 square inches and retain it's quality. How can I make Illustrator do this? I was trying to use the Live Trace. But I don't think I'm setting the properties correctly. It either overly smooths it or it leaves the edges as stepped and jagged.
I have a photo I removed the background from, leaving only the human models - 3 people sitting in front of a computer. I need the new background to be gradient filled and the left bottom corner of the image to have a 3px rounded corner so it can be incorporated into a Website slider with the same rounded corner. The new photo will be placed at the left-side of the slider. Using Photoshop, the photo is on layer #1, a gradient filled rectangle with rounded corners is on layer #2. All but the left bottom corner of the rounded-corner rectangle is dragged off the visible canvas. When I clip the photo using layer #2 the photo takes on the gradient fill completely obscuring the people - all I have is a gradient filled layer. How do I clip the photo to the gradient filled rectangle, producing a photo of 3 people with a gradient background and the left bottom corner rounded? I would prefer the photo remain editable because I have smart filters applied. Note: I was able to accomplish this by merging layers and then clipping to a rounded rectangle but this effectively destroyed any chance of future editing the photo with the original filters.
I need to upload my signature in a PDF document, but I do not know how to edit the background of this image. I wish to remove the bluish-tint background, and make it pure white. Can anyone help me with this, please?
This is a view from an app for restaurant. As you can see, buttons and title of the dish cannot be read easily, especially over white tone photos. I applied some gradient mask between photo and text, it is better now. But I want to know the best way of it. And can you give me some clue about re-arranging the buttons? Thank you P.S: I am only a Software Engineer :)
I have purchased a set of icons. In the package there are five files that contain all the icons, assembled on a regular grid in different file formats. The file formats are .ai, .eps, .pdf, .png, .psd. I need the icons to use in an android application I'm writing. I need around twenty of them at different resolutions (32x32, 48x48, 64x64 & 96x96), in .png format. The only way I know to extract the single icons is to do it by hand, but it would be a tedious and error-prone way. Is there an automatic method, or a better way of getting the icons out of the files, at the various resolution I need? What software will I need? Ps. The icons i need to obtain have the following format: sample android icon As you can see, the icon is centered in a 64x64 bitmap. I have colored red the transparent part of the image to make it more visible.
My question is really brief. What is the font used in the Western Union logo?
I'm trying to open my .psd files in Adobe Illustrator, but it's turning them into really small files. It's probably something to do with the advance settings, but I cant seem to find it.
I'm trying to do something a little like steganography - that is, I want to embed an image in an image so that when it's reduced to 50% size, the embedded image disappears and it becomes a plain color. This is my attempt. This is using Linear Dodge (Add) and Subtract blend modes in Photoshop, along with the respective layers being masked to alternating pixel columns. When reduced to 50%, using bilinear or bicubic resampling, I'd like it to become just a plain color. Instead, it's becoming this: Why? The resultant colors of the Add and Subtract aren't getting capped at 0 or 255. But, as we can see, lighter parts of the image are losing their red saturation. How can I manipulate the images - ideally using Photoshop - to get the desired result? My PSD is here, and the image I used is here. Edit: This is my second attempt: And that exact same image, resized by your browser: At least on mine, the A has disappeared. That is what I want, and I want Photoshop to calculate pixel colours rather than me have to do it manually.
I have a pen sketch scanned with resolution ~ 7000x5000px 300DPI. When I'm trying to trace the whole image with Illustrator CS6 into b/w, I am losing details overall. Example is on the left side. It's just part of the image. However, when I tried to isolate a couple small raster pictures from the big one and trace them separately, I got pretty good results comparing to tracing a whole picture. The isolated images are with resolution ~700x800px 300DPI. The problem is that I can't isolate all elements in sketch then combine after tracing, it's hell lot of work. So my hope is that there is some technique of tracing big images to get better quality.
Can't argue that advertisements are an extra means of a web site generating income but should web designers take advertisements into consideration when laying out the pixels for a site? Should this be discussed in a design brief? How can you determine when advertisements are enough? Is their a ratio to consider when adding advertisements?
I have a PDF document with text created from a Photoshop file. Problem: When I do "select all text" in Acrobat and then copy-paste it into a text editor the text is pasted out of order. This is somewhat expected because of the multiple text layers in the original Photoshop file. Question: How can I tell Photoshop the desired order of the text layers when creating the PDF file? The layers are stacked in the correct order in the layer panel in Photoshop. I was hoping that was the issue, but it's not. Is there any other way in which I can specify the text order?
I'm trying to simulate a cloud of data points around a graph and I found that the air spray filter applied to a copy of that graph will give me almost what I want, especially when changing the morphology effect operator from dilate to erode. This doesn't look too bad, although now the wannabe data points are maybe a bit too weak depending on output resolution. In any case, especially when magnified, you can see another problem: Some of the pixels have a really low alpha value which doesn't make sense in my scenario. I'd like all pixels to have an alpha value of 1. I tried playing around with the two blend effects the air spray filter contains but to no avail. I then tried to force the alpha channel to 1 using the colour matrix effect with the following setting. 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 But of course this sets everything that has alpha value 0 to 1, too, with a rather devastating effect. Is there a way to turn only the orange pixels non-transparent but not the background? I know, when exporting this to PDF it's unlikely that the air spray effect will survive without being rendered as a raster image anyway so I probably could go through that cycle once and then do something to the raster image. But if there is a more elegant way to do this, that'd be great.
I have an image of size 100px x 100px and a bunch of smart objects of size 10px x 10px in it. When I resize the image using Image > Image Size by 200% - all my vector objects and smart objects are resized just fine. But when I open the smart object for editing, I can see its size is still 10px x 10px. (should be 20px x 20px). When I resize the smart object while editing it and hit save, it is 40px x 40px in size. So looks like Photoshop is still making it double sized (as I resized an entire image to have 200% in width / height). Am I doing something wrong? Is there a better way how to resize an image with smart objects included?
On higher level nodes of our site we have a utility nav with only 3 links: "sign in", "register", and "browse". The text labels for these actions are too long to keep fully visible at screen sizes 480px and under so we'll be using media queries to render them as icons. Normally we would simply collapse into the 3-bar menu toggle BUT some of these screens will also have a local nav with many links that we will be treating in that manner -- so we don't want to render two 3-bar menu icons. Instead, we'd like to do something like show a user profile icon for the sign-in/register link and something for "browse" (whose label at above 480px is "Browse by Discipline"). Maybe we need to rethink this approach but we were hoping to somehow represent "browse" but have come up with nothing satisfactory. A magnifying glass reads too strongly as "search" and the old binoculars seems awfully lame. Any ideas or examples in the wild? All suggestions appreciated!
I work with very large documents with over 50 art boards. Towards the end of my illustration process I typically add a raster effect to everything in my Illustrator document. Sometimes I run into a situation where I later need to remove the effect or change the effect settings. I haven't found a good way to do this. Whereas I could select all the objects and apply the effect all at once, I can't seem to select all objects and remove the effect all at once, because they all have different appearance attributes. What I would love is to be able to do what you can do in Photoshop, which is to use a smart layer effect, which is editable and togglable at any time with just a click; in Illustrator, however, it seems like I'm applying 100 separate instances of the effect (f there are 100 objects in my document), rather than one unified affect across the whole layer. Is there a way to do what I'm trying to do?
I'd like to cut through a white layer with text to reveal a pic underneath, in effect filling the text with the pic but still be able to preserve full text editing i.e. not rasterise? So far I have two pics, one as the background layer and one as a clipping mask for the text. Can anyone help? Sorry if this has already been answered I'n not sure what this technique is called so wasn't sure what to search for. Sample:
I recently got a PDF from a client that includes several images. For some strange reason, the vertical and horizontal resolution of each individual image differs. Some of them differ by a huge degree. Here's the specs of one of the image in question... 47 by 216 pixels 51.84 by 11.28 points 65.278 by 1378.69 pixels per inch I noticed this while doing pre-print prep and was a little curious. I've seen the h-res and v-res differ by a small percentage before, but not to this degree. What actions could result in an image with these properties? Did the graphic artist simply have to stretch an existing image to fit the overall PDF layout, resulting in fewer pixels on the stretched axis?
Some web design and development projects client's will request capabilities for a foreign translation in their site. How can you account for this and what are some good practices for content mockup? If a client supplies content are you to take the English version and go to Google translate and translate every requested language and design accordingly? Do you design and code each .css file for each language if you are wanting the best possible result? When providing a mockup to the client do you provide the translated edition or just the English? Is it a bad idea to not guarantee or require a sign-off for your design if you don't speak the foreign language in question?
I am looking for the best font for not only programmers but all people which are "forced" to sit long hours in front of a computer and staring at screen. I expect less distraction, less eye tiredness, more readability etc. than anything casual/default. Does exist some font with verifiable attributes suitable for usage during long hours programming / scripting? Is Inconsolata a good choice?
I'm a researcher in cryptography and regularly read and write acedemic papers which are, to say the least, not objects of great beauty. Recently I've noticed that the guideline not to use more than two or maybe three fonts in a document is regularly flouted and wonder how much this has to do with it. Here's an example of mine (content is of course irrelevant): The done thing seems to be to have different fonts for different categories of things: Serif for body text, same in bold for headings, italics for emphasis. Sans-Serif or monospace for algorithm names (the "KeyGen" etc. in the example). Italics (but in a slightly different font I think) for inline math. sans-serif, bold or small caps for names of security notions (small caps in the example above). "blackboard bold", "calligraphic", "fraktur" etc. (the different options available in LaTeX) for different classes of things like collections of algorithms, participants in a protocol. and so on ... My questions are: The above example looks a bit chaotic to me. Is it mainly the number of fonts, or am I missing any other key design principle (like not using fonts that go well together or bad spacing)? Is there any point from a design perspective in using different fonts in a techinical or academic document to denote different categories of things or would it be better to just to use the same font for all? The argument for "one font per category" seems to be something like making it easier for the reader to recognise at a glancce what kind of thing I'm referring to - is there any justification for this? Or a better way to achieve the same? I've read this GD topic, any more pointers to how I can make my academic papers look better?
I'm new to Illustrator, and I'm having a heck of a time with a project. The image I'm trying to make has a black background, and a large number of white text objects in the foreground. I select the text tool, click in the panel, change my font color to white and remove any stroke, and type a word. Then I select the text tool again, click elsewhere, and type another word - the colors snap back to their defaults, though (the default color is black, so I can't see it at all). I have to manually change the color to white every time I make a new text layer. I've been searching for a way to change the default, or make my changes permanent, but I can't seem to find anything. I imagine this is something really easy...any advice?
I'm animating a character with bones, using keyframes. The character is made up of a skeleton and a bunch of planes attached to that. I want to edit the scale of one of the planes, but when I do that, every animation keyframe that I have already overrides that and sets it back to the value it had when I started animating. Is there a way to make changes to the mesh and propagating that change throughout the existing keyframes? Pardon my Maya-illiteracy.
I'm not here to debate if which program is better, I have only one, since Inkscape no longer works on OS X without some tweaking. I am using Photoshop. I have a vector image I have been working on, it's simple, but it's mine. Before I start to add more time to this project, I need to ask, is there a way to make letters and numbers into "shapes" using Photoshop? Just like how you can do using Photoshop with the other drawing tools? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I did not see this question here after a search but I was curious to know how do you change the direction of Illustrator's perspective grid from the default: To something like this:
I've worked in Illustrator for years... not professionally. I'm starting to charge for my services, and started wondering. I've taken an Illustrator class at my local college, and designed hundreds of things in Illustrator and other vector illustration software packages. But I've never seen, nor heard of, a best practices for creating layers within a vector illustration. I recently asked an artist friend of mine for a high res image of one of his sketches so I can vectorize it. One of the things I would like to do once I am done is play with brush types on the image... however, if I do the digital inking like I usually do, then the image will be one huge vector image rather than pieces that I can edit and tweak. Other than 'common sense' is there a guide for creating and using layers in a vector image program? Is there a book that would list out the types of pieces of an image that should be layered versus just one huge vector piece at the end?
I want to use an editorial (image which cannot be used for commercial purpose) image which contains a celebrity and crest of the sports team. I've use Photoshop filters to create a water-paint effect photo. The face of the celebrity is completely hidden/blurred as is any crest or other identifiable data. Can I use this derivative image for commercial purpose?
I have a layer containing an icon in color. My goal is to have the same icon in black and white as well (i.e., both the color and the black & white version in a single image). When I select the color image on Layer 1 and duplicate it, then highlight Layer 1 copy, and finally click on the adjustments icon at the bottom of the layers panel to reduce the hue, I get the following result: Selecting any layer will now yield black and white icons for both icons (even though I want Layer 1 to remain colorful). (Also, Ctrl-Z does not undo it.) How can I make Layer 1 copy black and white but leave Layer 1 colorful?
I have designed some fancy cards (80mm x 48mm), and I would like to print them on both sides of a sheet of paper now (5x2 per A4 sheet). Naturally, both sides of the print need to coincide exactly. However, after several attempts, it seems it's not working as expected: my printer seems to impose extra margins which mess up the alignment (which makes the printed area of the front side no longer coincide with the printed area of the back side). I already tried adding 1-2mm extra on all sides to allow some fluctuation, but this turns out to be insufficient. The difference seems to be always in the same direction, but strangely, moving the images around doesn't seem to change much -- as if the printer automatically corrects this. So I wondered, are there any good ways to do it? In the PDF, things are aligned very well, but the printer messes it up with more than 2 mm difference. Any idea what would cause this and how to avoid it? (For what it's worth, I'm using Windows 7 (pro, 64bit) and my printer is a Samsung CLP-325.)
I am using Flash CS6 ActionScript 3.0. I am creating an animation with 3-4 images of registration form. The clarity of images is poor in the output of animation even though I am using really clear and large image files. What do I need to do to produce clearer animations?
In InDesign CS6, I'm aware that I can apply drop cap style to characters at the start of a paragraph. However, what if I need drop caps for characters that are at the end of a paragraph? How can I apply a drop cap style for characters that are at the last character of a paragraph?
I have the following rounded rectangle Need to make border glossy like below image In order to do that, I've expanded this shape and created a ellipse with no stroke above button, with transparency/screen. This is what I got: Now I need to get rid of the rest of ellipse, so the button will be transparent on upper boundaries. Inner part of button should be white, but whatever I put between button and ellipse should receive glossy effect. How to do that? Update: This is what I got with object inside rectangle. However, I feel that the way I did it not effective. I've pasted 'S' into black full rectangle and into masked rectangle. Should I need to modify it then it's double work.
I have two shapes and I want to merge the anchor points as seen in the image. Is there any way?
I would like to create a pdf with text fields that expand in height but when you are finish typing that they revert back to there original size so as not to cover anything up or flow the rest of my file off the page. Is this do-able? I have Adobe Livecycle Designer but know little to nothing about it, have only tinkered. I also have Acrobat Pro X. Any help is appreciated.
I've been doing some preliminary research regarding data merging. I have a client requesting layouts of essentially sales package components. His current workflow is to use Word to data merge with Outlook then self-print the package pieces. The design of the pieces is, well, poor. So he wants better design. The trick is he doesn't have Indesign (not a surprise) and I don't expect him to get Indesign. And I refuse to use Microsoft Word for layout. I've already tried to dissuade him a bit explaining that if what he's doing is working, why complicate and change things.However, he's persistent. So a bit of research tells me I can use Acrobat forms to data merge with an Excel file. This may work. But I'm having some difficulty configuring things in Indesign (using CS5.5 but can use CS6 or CC if needed). I can easily designate form fields in Indesign by using underscores. Acrobat then will automatically read the underscores as a form field. The problem occurs when I want the layout to be a bit dynamic. I want a form field to adjust to fit it's contained text and eliminate any underscores. Without underscores Acrobat doesn't see form fields. I can manually place fields in Acrobat, but this requires me to leave a big open space in the Indesign layout. Are there any tips, links, or other information you can provide which can explain how to use dynamic form fields in Acrobat (if that is possible), and how to best configure an Indesign file for PDF Form output? I have a suspicion that I am not going to be able to get the dynamic text flow from PDFs which he's getting from Word, or which I could achieve via data merge within Indesign. I do not want to be responsible for his data-merge though. I just want to configure things so he can do it without Indesign.
I'm looking for a keyboard shortcut to change spacing before and after paragraphs in InDesign CS6. So far I haven't been able to find a default shortcut nor to setup a custom one (couldn't find this item inside the shortcut preferences). Any ideas that don't involve creating paragraph styles for each spacing value?
I've been fighting with InDesign GREP find/change quite a bit and couldn't find any way to get it to look at the start and the end of a character style. This is necessary if, for example, you want to grab only whole chunks of a character style and only if they don't contain something. For example, you might have text like... Lorem ipsum dolor sit2-4 amet, consectetur5 adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud2,3 exercitation ullamco6 laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. ...and you want to make GREP rules that strictly start only from the start of each snippet or span of the character style applying the superscript, and strictly end only at the end of the character style applying the superscript. (for example, so you can find whole snippets that don't contain punctuation like "-" or ",", without finding sub-snippets that aren't punctuation such as the 2 in "2,3") Using ^ and $ (beginning and end of paragraph/line) with a character style specified in Find/Change gives weird results and then crashes. Using word boundaries \b and the mysterious "opposite of a word boundary" \B also gave strange results (jumping the cursor to the right place once, then not selecting anything and not finding any more locations).
I'm writing a little javascript application in which users need to be able to choose an image from an "image library" and then choose the color of said image. There will be a massive number of images and a massive number of colors, and I would really love if I did not have to make each color of each image. Instead, I was hoping to be able to take a png and swap the transparent and visible elements, so that I can just put a solid block of color behind it to change the color. Does anybody know of a good way to quickly do this (I have adobe design premium 5.5)? Thanks in advance!
I use Fireworks and want to create 8-bit style graphics, kind of like the games on the NES. What are the best methods for this? Can I reduce the colour palette? What about the number of pixels, is there a difference here? Or, should I just take my full quality graphics and save as an 8-bit PNG? Any advice and/or further reading would be most appreciated.
I know this, but I can't recollect at all. What is this thing called? They are usually centered in a book or writing and I'm certain they have a name but I can't remember for the life of me. They also come in all shapes, colors and sizes.
So, a while back I created this icon from a game, but looking back on it behind a white background instead of an alpha-channel its edges are super choppy in some places while it's smooth in others, which is possibly due to the method I used to select certain regions before bucket-filling it. I was using GIMP and I was wondering if there is any possible way to easily fix this (ie make all edges even instead of choppy). Maybe some rendering filters or selection methods that I don't know about? I've googled and youtubed but with no avail. My image: (As you can see, the inner crescent-shaped things are choppy as well as the exterior of the circle on the left and right is choppy)
I prefer to work with the web, so it's been forever since I've worked with a printer. Just received this message back regarding a doc utilizing white ink. How can I accomplish this in Adobe Illustrator? (The doc is already assigned CMYK.) What we need are print ready PDFs with the white ink designated as a Spot Color titled "White."
As I understand it, producing an image with fonts that are subpixel antialiased is nonsense because once the font is rendered to an image (clarification: bitmap image), the subpixels will turn into full pixels (how could the image preserve the subpixel-ness of the font rendering?) I could not find a definitive source to confirm or invalidate my understand. Clarification: I want to deploy images with text in them to the web. So it's not about a mockup or anything.
I am desperate for a guide that will tell me how terms translate between CorelDraw and Illustrator. I've used Corel for nearly 20 years and know the terms and shortcut keys like I speak "Corel". With a new job I HAVE to use Illustrator and I don't speak Illustrator! Features in Illustrator and Corel are clearly similar -- but the terminology is different! For example: CorelDraw has nodes while Illustrator uses a clipping path? Can anyone tell me what the common terms are and how they translate? AND the shortcut keys? for example: Corel: Group/Ungroup = Ctrl+G Illustrator: Group = Command/Ctrl+G
I've followed this tutorial to get 2 corner rounded rectangle. However, when I try to union those two halves of rectangles back, then on upper right corner I got the following Merged lines are going exactly to the center of rectangle. The bottom left corner looks like this: What I want is to get 90 degree corners, just like before cutting rectangle with scissors.
I am building a database with descriptions and various other information for strength training exercises. One of the most important things is to actually let the user get a visual idea of how to perform the exercise, so I want to build a set of clipart pictures that show them. The best example of what I would like to do is this: (Source) Their pictures are in .bmp format, but I don't know how they built them. What's the best/easiest way to accomplish this? Is there software out there that can help with this? It seems like the best approach would be to be able to design a human mockup and then be able to manipulate its joints to show them in various positions. However, I have basically no experience in design/computer graphics so any help and directing me to relevant resources would be much appreciated.
I'm creating buttons for my app specifically for the iPhone 4S and the iPhone5. For some reason, any objects that are circular in nature appear jagged on the phones. For example, a location marker which I created in Photoshop doesn't look jagged from within Photoshop. However, when exported as a .png and used as a button in iOS, the edges around the curve of the location marker are jagged. Is this a problem with the resolution?
When I combine two shapes where at least one has a non-right angle or curve, both shapes become anti-aliased. This appears to be some new to CS6. Are there any ways to get around this? The photo below shows two sets of combined shapes, one with a 45 degree angle which causes the blurring and one with right angles which does not blur.! Example of Blurring
I know how to do this manually, but I need an automatic way (either a script or just a command in Illustrator). Here's a line like the one I mean. Notice how it's all made of straight lines (The blue dots are the anchor points): How can I turn this into a true curve easily? Note that I have all of Adobe Creative Cloud at my disposal, so if there is a tool in Fireworks, Photoshop, or anything else that can help, it is still relevant.
I have an Illustrator file that's behaving strangely when I print it to PDF. Basically, it adds small lines around shapes; I included a zoomed-in screenshot. If I save the file as PDF, the lines don't appear but then the file itself is huge: 30MB. Has anyone seen this issue and if so, how do you solve it? Thanks.
I am a web developer struggling with design issues. I have a blunt eye for colors and my design skills suck (I try to improve though). I'm having issues with the feel of particular pages, I wonder if my color schemes are any good, if my design invokes seizures or general rage(jk). I would like some feedback, specifically on color patterns across the site (if the colors give a general feeling of uniform design and not like each page is of its own) or if there are any striking colors that are universally "banned" (like the red-black in the bar). Here are some of the pages: main page movie page(arrows indicate questions about if the difference in color is well balanced or horrendous) user page(it replaces the "Favorites" with whatever you click) - Main page: http://83.212.108.109/freaq/ - user page: http://83.212.108.109/freaq/user.php (yes the one in the pic is me ;p ) - movie page: http://83.212.108.109/freaq/movie.php - network page: http://83.212.108.109/freaq/network.php P.S. If I ever launch a start-up I will give lots of designer love, as I understand that good UIUX is 50%+ of a product. P.P.S. If something is broken is due to the fact I am working on it
When I used the slice tool on each part and export as HTML, does it generate a skeletal HTML code where it consists of frame layouts? I would like to know for both Photoshop CS4 and GIMP.
I want to preview a map that I'm generating before sending it off to the (expensive) printer. Unfortunately, the tool used to make it (TileMill) has no concept of paper sizes, DPI or any units. It just lets you specify a certain number of pixels. So, what's a process (and tools) I could use to view it at close to 1:1 scale of the final process? I'm thinking something like: Look up length of desired print size (A2): x1 (59.4cm) Measure width of screen (it's landscape): x2 (33.3cm) View the image on screen, zooming to x1/x2 (178.4%). Is this right, or am I missing something? And if this right, what tool on OS X can zoom to such precise levels?
I found this image from an unknown source. I have searched on whatfontis.com but could not exact font.
The company I work for recently started a partnership program. Part of the program includes us sending out our logo to our partners which they will include in their websites, signs and printed materials. We had some issue with photoshop color profiles and chose to remove them in the files we sent to our partners. Is this the correct way to do this? Are there any other ways to insure that the colors in our logo will appear correctly when added to other company's designs?
I am new to design and I am creating a document in InDesign. I am using 16X16 icons for headings, but when I export this document to PDF format, the icons look blurred (see image). I've tried to sharpen the icon in Photoshop but I'm not sure how to do that. How can I make a sharp icon?
I want to create an icon for my iOS App that keys into iOS 7's new design and color scheme. What kinds of colors should I use and what key things should I implement in the design?
I am designing an app about collecting movie posters (original ones combined with some funny/creative factors). Since there are different kinds of movies (horror, romantic, action, etc.), I need to find a unifying graphic style for them. My target user group is mostly male European/US movie goers aged 16-40. Any ideas?
I have a simple black and white image. I want to remove the white background and make it transparent. There are some intricate parts so the magic wand tool won't work for me in this case. Is there a way I can select a color and remove it (making it transparent)? Here's a sample of the image: I'm currently using Pixelmator, but have access to Photoshop. Also, I would think all of these programs would have a similar tool for doing this, but I'm not familiar with it.
I just messed up using the Gradient Mesh Tool in Adobe Illustrator. I want to start a brand new Gradient Mesh on the object I messed up on and don't want to delete the original shape. How can I remove the existing Gradient Mesh so that I can start a new one from scratch?
I have a very simple psd file with 2 layers. The top layer has a layer style: This is how it looks: But when I try to rasterize the rounded rectangle layer, it turn it into this: It's missing the green. How can I export it with the green stuff? Thanks
I was following a tutorial related to the construction of a web template using Photoshop. I have found this image that shows the use of the guides: I have no problem placing a guide into my canvas, but I have trouble understanding what unit of measurement is used in this case. I think that this uses pixels, is that right? My problem is that if I set the rulers to use pixels in Photoshop, I do not have these ruler increments: 0, 50, 100, 150, and so on... Instead, I have different increments: 0, 20, 40, 60 and so on... So I have some doubts related to the active unit of measurement. Can I change the displayed increments to have something exactly like the previous image?
I'm converting pdf files to svg as it is easier to use svg files on webpages. I first thought the quality of svg must be similar to pdf, as they are both vector graphics. However, now I look a little better on it, it seems that pdf is a bit superior: I wonder if I could change this in some way. Is this because pdf vectors are just better quality ? Or is this because chrome renders svg in lower quality than adobe reader renders pdf ? Is this a setting in the svg file that I could change ? I've made this svg file in illustrator, and only chrome is able to use the embedded svg fonts. So firefox and internet explorer won't give the expected result.
What is the easiest way without vector? I would like to generate something very similar to the image below for CSS development, but I'm having a hard time figuring out the easiest way to turn shape lines into pencil or sketched look lines. I've tried: Using calligraphy pens, held down the shift key Hand tracing a straight line but it came up too jagged I feel like I'm making this unnecessarily hard. Any thoughts are generously and gratefully accepted.
Microsoft Paint is the worst image editing tool I could ever imagine of, but it has one good thing that still makes me use it over Photoshop: When I enlarge a small, pixelated 16x16 image, it doesn't make it blurry, instead, it enlarges every pixel in the image, so that the image will still look pixelated as it did before, but now it's just bigger. I know that this by itself might not be the best resizing algorithm and in most situation's, Photoshop's way of doing this proves to be more satisfactory. However, I'm doing some pixel art right now and I need the pixels to still look like squares when I enlarge the image. I would just use Paint, but the problem with Paint is that it doesn't keep transparency. In a nutshell, the question is: How to enlarge an image in Photoshop without making it blurry, like the way Paint does? In other words, "Enlarge as if I've just zoomed in."
I would like to achieve in Photoshop this type of transparency effect (higher transparency values on the brighter areas of the image): How can I do this?
I have some images to send to the printer. The printing company wants them in 'CMYK' but doesnt offer any other information. I've read up quite a bit on this but most info that I've found seems to be about the theory of color profiles with not much on the actual procedure. Currently my image is in sRGB (I'm using the GIMP which I believe uses sRGB, but doesnt embed this color profile in the image). I understand that ISOcoated_v2_300_eci.ic is a good general-purpose CMYK profile. 1) Do I want to convert my image to the CMYK profile or do I just want to add the profile to the image? 2) How can I verify that the above has worked. E.g. if I load the image up with some viewer app and view it on the monitor, how can I tell if it is all correct? I.e. I believe once the image is in the new profile you should be able to preview to get an estimate what it will look when printed (as CMYK has a smaller range than sRGB) and maybe adjust the colors to improve things. Maybe there are some test images showing before and after conversion? 3) Can anyone recommend tools for 1 and 2 (free hopefully). I am on windows 7, but could also use Linux. (Other than Separate+ for the GIMP - I tried it but I'm pretty certain its not working correctly for me as yellow turns into yellow-green).
I'm designing a page with a lot of beautiful pictures of different places. I'm wondering how I can use some sort of filter on the pictures or how to format the container to give the page a consistent feel. Please note that these pictures will be user generated and thus I'm not sure what will come about. Here is an example of what I'm working with: Should I add a border to the container? Or desaturate the pictures? All in all, I need a filter to put on pictures or a method to format the picture container to give the dynamic pictures a flat feel.
I'm working on creating a glyph for the British pound sterling for a typeface I'm working on, and I realized that not only is it a bit of an oddity, it's an oddity that I, as someone from the United States (a 'Murican), am just not that exposed to. What does a "normal" pound sign look like? A "normal" dollar sign tends to be, more or less, the "S" glyph of the font with one or two vertical strokes through it. But consider a sampling of pound signs: Calibri is first, and is about as plain as can be; an elongated 'f' with a wide base. Adobe Caslon Pro gives it an oblique slant even though this is the Regular weight. Helvetica Neue squiggles the base, which feels a bit out of place compared to the general sterility of the typeface. Didot really emphasizes the loop on the baseline, while Charlemagne flattens out the base quite a bit. None of them have a crossbar in the middle that matches the x-height of the rest of the face, but the general rule seems to be to roughly bisect the glyph. If I look at these by date released, I'd guess that the notation has simplified over time. Any Brits (or those who work with pounds enough to have an opinion) have thoughts on this? I know this stuff boils down to "what feels right," but I don't have enough context to make that call.
Are there any graphics programs that work like AutoCad or Inventor where you can draw objects and give them precise dimensions? Even better, something parametric like Inventor. I don't like lining stuff up by eye or using flaky snap grids. I'm hoping for something really extensive, and straight forward as if one was drawing simple parts (I plan on making icon vectors). Is there anything like this? Thanks
I want to make a long shadow just like in this image. I can create this shadow with shapes and by deleting the unwanted shadows after rasterizing the layer. But it's not very reusable. I can't resize the layer after rasterizing it. Is there any easy way to make a long shadow like in the image below?
How can I change thickness of "outlines", which actually are not strokes but closed shapes? In the following example you can see outlines which I would like to make thicker, all of them. I wish I could convert them to strokes...
I've created some images in Illustrator (simple portraits to be exact). I have been using the "Save As" option to save PDF Versions to email to my boss for the past few weeks. Here is my problem: Now that I have begun printing, the prints have glitches all over them. Some of the shapes and paths are not filled all the way in and have white spaces, and in some spots I can see the bottom layers coming through the top layers. For example, the white of the eyes may show up on the eye-lid, even though the eye-lid is on TOP. I'm not understanding why the PDF files look so great on the computer screen, but my prints look so screwed-up.
The Problem I've designed some playing cards (3.5" x 2.25") in InDesign. Now I want to print a prototype batch on my home printer as a first test. Ideally I would like 4 cards per 8.5" x 11" page, with printers marks to guide cutting. You'd think this would be easy with InDesign. So far, it seems to be anything but. There are a startling number of wrong ways to do it, and I haven't found a right way yet. What I've Tried Method A: New Document Start a second document with 8.5" x 11" pages. Drag the cards into it and position them 1 by 1 This is the closest to the right way that I've found, but I lose any background fields from the original in the process. Method B: Export to PDF I tried exporting to PDF then printing multiple pages to a page. Why this fails: it resizes the pages. Method C: Printing Thumbnails I tried printing "thumbnails" to a single page in InDesign. Again, this resizes the pages.
I have an inDesign file, a booklet of mostly text in a table (names addresses etc) and my client would like the file set up so they can edit it themselves, add to the table. Is there a way to convert my inDesign file to a template/editable format (not PDF) in a more common program such as Word, whilst keeping my formatting/fonts? They do not have inDesign or inCopy.
I have an image: I need this image for a webpage background. As you see, it has lots of useless pixels around the blurred element which could be replaced with CSS. The image given to me is JPG, I have no access to layers. Is there a way to trim by color instead of transparent pixels?
I'm looking to create a tube with an effect like the following - the cylindrical segments which come together to make a pipe. I was wondering how this might be achieved; You could layer ellipsis with lighting effects over each other, but does anyone know of an alternative method to achieve? Yes, it looks something like a hoover pipe.
I am designing a brand for the Brazilian Market. It is focused mainly on beauty products for the mass. So the font I choose needs to be with some personality, not too fancy, not too simple. How can I narrow down a group of fonts to choose from that will fit my needs?
What are the default dimensions for a Twitter User's Background image? If I want to upload my own image for my Twitter account's Background image, what should its default dimensions be, as per Twitter's official guidelines?
I'm developing a logo from a photograph of some vehicles, am I allowed to use the manufacturers icon they use on the front of the vans we own, in our logo? Sorry if it's a silly question, but this area of GD is very murky and it's hard to find a solid answer.
The company I work for wants to release a brochure and they want to demonstrate that our app works on PC (web-based app) as well as on a smart phone. They used to have a designer who used a picture of an iPhone and screenshots of the app including the browser (Firefox). I'm not keen on showing browser UI, especially because our users use various browsers (from IE6 to Google Chrome). We thought about showing a PC screen but this leads to other issues and it just doesn't fit within our current style. My idea is to design a very simple browser UI + a smart phone using our current style - what do you guys think? Can you think of a different way to present the screenshots in multiple devices?
I'm working in a file that has a template/guide thing that I can't figure out how to toggle. Does anybody have experience with these?
How to Create Rounded Corner Hexagon in photoshop using polygon tool ?
Can you please help me identify this glamorous show font used in the 'Walk it out' text? Is it normal or a custom font?
TLDR: When I use the marquee tool to select a box around layer and then move it with the move tool, the selection box shrinks to surround the populated region of the layer. Is there a way to keep the selection box's dimensions, instead of it shrinking on move? Here's my situation: I have a uniform spritesheet made up of 30+ layers. I need to adjust different sprites in the sheet to different areas, but because the movement isn't uniform I need to do it sprite-by-sprite, layer-by-layer. I would save hours if I could just select a region and move the objects inside the region layer-by-layer, but because moving a selection with transparency shrinks the selection region to the populated areas, I have to reselect every time I switch layers. Any way to avoid the selection box shrinkage?
As seen on http://www.wendygladney.com Can you please identify the cursive/script font in this image?
Below is a screenshot of a small application I am building. I would like to cover the most significant colors from whole color spectrum, but I am missing lots of colors. I don't get the intended result; I don't see some colors like yellow or orange. I have 40 tiles arranged 8x5. I divided the RGB color spectrum of about 16 million colors by 40 and converted that value to a hex value so that it will be applied on the tiles. Fading/blending from cyan to red clearly isn't an approach that reaches all parts of the RGB spectrum. What did I miss, or how can I do that?
I have two primary needs: Build several documents with the same layout/styling Combine those separate ones into a single document For the first point I've discovered (I'm learning InDesign as I go) the usage of templates, which I have successfully implemented so far. For the second point I have two questions. 1. How do I merge the documents into one Here's what I do: I placed some elements (like page numbering) on separate layers in my template. I create my "full" document and import the other documents into it, skipping the layers I'm not interesting in, like page numbering. This way I have correct page numbering in my separate documents and in the full document. Is this a good practice? 2. How do I update the templates afterwards What if I need to change my template afterwards? As far as I understand, once you created a document from a template, it is actually not linked to it. Is it possible to reflect changes from the template into documents created from it?
I would like to make a logo that has two simplified branches of barley that mirror each other and curve to a perfectly circular shape, like the following from http://culination.co: I have tried to do it in Illustrator, Sketch and Pixelmator, but I can't seem to figure it out and can't find a tutorial. I tried making the pattern straight and curving it and when that didn't work, I tried making it curved, which was a total mess. Does anyone have an idea how to do this elegantly?
A friend and i are building a e-commerce site, but we really trying to create a brand that will be cool as well. Our target market are 15 - 29 year olds, so we want it quite funky. and it should be easy to remember. but using a single font for the name kinda dulls it down. So we tried different colors but it still doesn't feel like its distinct. So we are thinking about using more then one type face for the brand name. Is it a bad thing to use multiple type faces in a brand name? and if not what are the rules so that you don't end up with a cheep looking brand that people second guess at? we want the users experience to have them come to the store and know that its a trusted, well established store before they even purchase something. PS. is swapping from lower case to caps a bad idea haha..
I'm a full-time professional designer in the early middle of my career -- I have been working as a designer full-time for 15 years. I create lots of work that I am very proud of. However, when I look through something like a design annual, there is so much beautiful work that it makes me want to improve even more. I've been thinking about this, and I think I mean that I want to improve in an aesthetic sense (which I know is subjective). I want my design to look more beautiful and pleasing. I'm very confident with achieving the communication goals of my design, and I even like how a lot of my design looks. But I would love to reach that higher level of beauty the masters seem capable of. What should I do? How do I take my daily work to what I consider the next aesthetic level?
Suppose, I am creating a logo in a vector graphics editor (for example Inkscape) and I use there the font which cannot be freely distributed (for example Myriad Pro which can be obtained by downloading Adobe Reader). Then I convert the text, which uses the not-freely-distributable font, to "path" (for example, Inkscape can do it), so all the information about the used font will be lost. Is it legal to distribute such a logo (the font is no longer embedded in the logo, it was converted to path)?