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I've become very fascinated with the idea of digital destruction through a physical medium. There was PBS video on youtube How Does Glitchy Art Show Us Broken Is Beautiful? Example Pieces: Cultural Brazilian sound chair: shows this idea with sound and how a sound of brazil influence the form. Digital cabinet. Shows a split between the classical baroque cabinetry and new digital destruction. Question: What are the techniques to edit these typical mediums from a sound wave? Can anyone list out some, tools + process to achieving these kind of results? I can already take beautiful photography, I 3d render beautiful products and I can shoot video like a mofo. I know this is a really wonky question but any tips or trick will help me in my research.
I have to rebuild a flattened file from scratch and have no information about the font and Photoshop style used. I have been able to recreate the Photoshop style, but I have a hard time identifying the used font. Can you help me identify this serif font? EDIT: I forgot to note that I've already tried the usual font-identification sites… with no success. Even asking some of the "expert" forums turned up with no result.
I'm manually creating a sprite sheet using Photoshop and many of the graphic elements have drop shadows applied. Given that fact, it's tough at times to see where the drop shadows begin and end. I don't want to set my guides too close and cut off parts of the shadow. Anyone have any tips on how they go about handling this issue?
Ok so this is difficult to put in words but I want to know how designers present their Graphics Design work in screenshots something like this (source: Dribbble): Not about the iPhone but I'm talking about presenting the design as a photograph taken from side-view, I believe it is some sort of Photoshop thing but since I don't know what to call this pattern, I couldn't Google anything on this. Similar examples are this, this and many other on Dribbble. Link to a brief tutorial on How-To creating such snap-shots would be great.
I am planning to major in Graphic Design, but I am unsure if it is the right choice for me. I would like to know what skills I should know before starting to study it so I can get a head start. One particular skill I am confused on is drawing. I have read online that drawing is a non-essential skill for graphic design, but on some cases I have also read that some drawing skill is required.
Of course I've seen Create and Edit Parallel Paths in Inkscape - Graphic Design Stack Exchange, but the "Stroke to Path" answer there doesn't cut it for me - because I want to draw "parallel lines" as "bus connections" in technical diagrams, like this poor fellow: Inkscape-User - Parallel lines brush? I would like to have a sort of "hatched" parallel line brush (useful for representing busses in diagrams). This is what I could get to: * Draw three parallel lines [...] Can you show a sample image of what you want? Your description is somewhat confusing. Well, here is an image then (using inkscape 0.48.1 on Ubuntu): I basically want a single path (stroke), which is "styled" with parallel lines (strokes), and which still allows for editing through the nodes; as it can be seen on the image, I'm almost there - except the "styling" lines are not parallel, as there is a distortion (widening towards the ends of the master path). This distortion is a known issue, apparently: InkscapeForum.com • View topic - Non-destructive Pattern Along Path ? Both Pattern Along Path, and its LPE version, skew the objects/paths after aligning them to each node. While this is desirable in maintaining continuity when applying a single shape to a curve, it results in distorting repeated objects at corners. OK, here is a step by step of what I've tried so far (for full size of the images, copy their imgur link, open it in another tab, and then remove the last m from the filename, so e.g. wHTbjm.png becomes wHTbj.png): Draw a simple line with pen tool - a horizontal path: Copy this line three times - that is my "parallel" pattern: Select all three lines, and choose Path / Combine: Now all three lines are considered as a single path with 6 nodes: Start drawing a "master" line with the Pen tool: The final "master" line, that I want to make a "parallel bus", is now made of three segments with right angle corners: Select the "parallel pattern" path, and then Object / Raise to Top: Then choose Extensions / Generate from path / Pattern along Path: Having set up the resulting window as shown below, I simply cannot get anything resembling the parallel line styling of the master line I had in mind: So, dropping that approach - and trying the other Pattern along Path; for this, we need to copy the "parallel pattern" first: Then choose Path / Path effect editor: Then from the Path effect editor window, choose Pattern along path from the Apply new effect dropdown, and click Add: Once the effect is added, click on Link to path button in the Pattern source row (the link refers to the object currently in clipboard, which is the parallel pattern that we copied previously) There we go - almost parallel lines styling of the master line, if there wasn't for the distortion towards the ends: At least the nodes of the master line are still editable, and the effect follows: Actually, since here the "parallel pattern" path is linked - you can edit that one too (with the pen tool), and the master line style will update accordingly; and I tried turning the parallel pattern lines into curves (so as to compensate for the distortion manually) - needless to say, that works very poorly... Well - anyone know how to get proper parallel "bus" lines in Inkscape?
This question is in regards to mobile site layouts but could just as easily apply to apps. I am not concerned with pitches, just true team reviews among UX, design, dev, and business partners. I always prefer to review a full depth mockup as an image directly on the device where I can at least scroll around. Unfortunately, one or a series of static images on a big meeting room screen is still a required element in many scenarios. This is the format I struggle with. I see three main options. Full depth. A full depth layout with the device as a backdrop anchored at the top of the page. That is to say that the mockup just runs right past the bottom of the device and continues until the content ends. One screen. Multiple snapshots shown one screen at a time. Realistic. A very literal variation on the second option where the mockup is in some sort of perspective on a photo of the device, sometimes in a users hand. What's your conclusion? Has anyone found the magic, one size fits all solution? How do you present your mockups and why? Convince us all to adopt your means of faking the mobile experience and dominate the dogma of mockups forever! CLARIFICATION: These comps are just one piece of the process: Start with data mapping, page flows, page description diagrams. Wireframes bring a sense of order and static mockups help to develop the ideas (think "paper prototypes"). A prototype is required for detailed testing. My concern here is when it comes time to review some tight visuals (and we're not ready to prototype yet) what is the best way to fake it? And I'm not concerned with weird client preferences, just the most productive way to visualize a mobile experience.
I will like to know if there is best practice regarding designing a website for a big corporation. I am specifically talking about the width of the website. I have a believe that websites with full (width: 100%) width are most suited for business and corporate websites, while widths of lesser percentages with margin: 0 auto; are best suited to blogs and personal websites. So, my question is: Is this a rule of thumb or my assertions are false ?
What is the easiest way to remove background from below image? If you can show it with screenshots it would be great.
I have been teaching myself Flash CS 5 and attempting to do some simple animations. I have created a simple bat drawing that I am attempting to animate. I read that it is a good idea to break sections of the object to be animated into different symbols and labels in order to lock when needed. As such I converted the wings into symbols and distributed to different layers. Now I want to change the color of the outline for the left wing to a light grey color to match the rest of the picture. When I try and use the ink bottle tool it has no effect. Is there another way to do this? How can I accomplish the needed result? I have tried editing that symbol/layer specifically with no effect.
How do people handle margins and gutters when designing a tri-fold brochure in InDesign? When a brochure is folded in three, the inside flap ends up being smaller than the other two flaps, so if I want things to align exactly, I can't just use the margins and columns panel and be done with it. You can see in this image how the automatic gutters don't line up with the fold lines that I have put in: Do you set up your columns manually within your adjusted fold lines, or do you use the default columns and gutters, or perhaps some other method? I know I can accomplish this manually, but I'm just looking for the most straightforward way to do it.
I have a problem with my Photoshop fill feature. I created a selected area with a border of 2. Then I Edit → Fill... but it seems to bleed outside the lines with a faint colour. It's best I show the screen shot so see below: This is my selected area: This has a Select → Modify → Border... (1px) Then i do Edit → Fill... and this is the result: Notice the fill is bleeding outside the selected area - why is this? Is there some option I am missing?
In the Appstore you can show screenshots of what the app looks like to the user so they know what to expect. I am looking into creating an image from scratch of a screenshot of an app. Here's my question: From what I understand, apps measure width and height in "points" instead of "pixels". In GIMP I have the option of using "points" instead of "pixels" too. Should I use "points" as the unit of measurement for my canvas or should I stick to using "pixels"? Also, are the colors on my computer screen the same as the colors on the iPhone screen? How do I make sure the colors I use in GIMP look the same when viewed on an iPhone? GIMP mentions using different color profiles which I understand help display colors on my screen exactly the same way they would be handled and shown on the iPhone. Where I could find a color profile for the iPhone?
For lack of a better name, I'm trying to create a decreasing stippling effect like this: My first inclination was that this could be created in Photoshop with some sort of filter effect. I was thinking along the lines of creating a smart object, applying a filter effect, then using a gradient on the filter mask to decrease the effect. This would allow for the possibility of a curved edged like you see in the image. No dice though, there doesn't seem to be an effect that quite does this. The problem with searching for this effect is that I don't know what it would even be called. I've seen it implemented all types of posters though, so it seems to be generally used.
I have a Visiting Card in Illustrator and have to fit the pic of a person in a visiting card Frame. I am clipping his pic in the frame but it says the Can't clipping because the front part of the clipping must be an object or text or combination of both. Plz Help me out on this problem.
I have an object with some perspective, to simulate a paper curl effect (blue sticker on image below). How do I apply the same effect to text (i.e., how do I make the purple text look like it is part of the sticker)? I guess I must find a way to curve my object on the z axis, but, I have no idea how to do that. Here is what I tried: I started to create an outline of the text (Type > Create Outline). From there, I tried to play with Envelope Distort Actions (Make with Warp, Make with Mesh, Make with Top Object). Make with Top Object sounded the most close to what I need, but either it's not the right tool, either I don't get how to use it. Menu Effect > Warp: none of the actions are what I'm looking for. Some are close, but only by chance. Menu 3D : seems like it will extrude me a shape, not at all what I'm looking for.
Can someone please help me identify the fonts used in these two receipts. I'm looking for downloadable free fonts that I can use to reproduce the same looking results. The two receipts used different fonts.
I've been painting a pixel character in a of 32x32, but after the work is almost done I noticed I needed a little more dots, Is there any way to edit the grid to something like 64x64? If not, is there any way to copy the painted dots inside a bigger grid and paste in another rectangular grid? Thank you.
Colors are used to represent emotions; especially in advertising. People have even come up with color-emotion charts like this one: Yet, depending on the country, some colors have different meanings... in one country (eg USA) WHITE represents purity, cleanness, while it the other county (eg China) it's the color to represent mourning. Is there any color-emotion chart which is applicable worldwide ?
I have created a new project with automatic text box (non facing pages) and have created a second master page that I would now like to apply to all even pages. InDesign has this option when I right-click on a master page, but I can't seem to find it anywhere in QuarkXpress 9.1. Google hasn't been nice to me either. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Even to say "it can't be done".
What is the difference between cyan and Pantone Cyan Special Color?
I have tried a variety of different manipulations to achieve a old-style architectural render. Here is what I've tried, perhaps the workflow and quality can be improved. Desaturated image Adjusted levels and contrast for clear designation of lines Filtered using artistic pencil sketch Added sepia tone my result was less than stellar. Here is a photo that I would like to change into an old-style rendering. here is the result that I'm looking for.
I would like to create a maze with gradients, but I don't know where to start. I can see that they are subtle gradients that shift, so I would like to start with some techniques that could help me shift my perspective beyond basic flat design: As a beginner, my reasoning would be: Create selected areas and put them on individual layers Choose eight or so colors, trying to find ones that blend into one another for depth. This sum not really sure of and don't know a lot about color theory. Create the full outline of the maze, but in a slightly different style that extends for a few more turns. Use the gradient tool to try to match up where intersecting layers. Would this be a correct technique? Am I missing something? what additional techniques are needed for a maze with curves? All design credit goes to: http://dribbble.com/shots/1118644-G-Glob
What do you call wireframe-like projection images of technical objects? Like the rocket images below: This is not an actual wireframe because empty spaces are not filled with a grid; only notable features are displayed.
I've previously screen printed over watercolors but would be interested in looking into digital printing onto paper thats been painted... Is there any common process for doing this or is it just not done?
I'd like to create something like this: (see design peg) Ideally, the text should be editable so that any letter combination can be used. I know I can do it quickly (and keep the text editable) by just using Warp (Photoshop/Illustrator) or Envelope Distort (Illustrator), but it doesn't look as nice. The text is editable though. I included some samples in the linked image above. I can do something neater and closer to the example by making the shapes manually, but of course the text isn't editable. I'd have to make each letter, from A-Z, manually, in each position (left, middle, right). I included a wireframe example in the linked image above. Is there another way for me to do this so I can still keep the text editable, while having the result look nice and neat like in the design peg? I was thinking that I'd really just have to do the letter shapes manually, because the design peg looks like that how it was done, but I may be wrong. If so, let me know if you know of a better way to do this. I may be missing on a tool or effect I don't know about. Thanks! P.S. I did try to use WhatFontIs and WhatTheFont to see if I could find the font used in the design peg, but I didn't find anything close. That's another reason why I think it was done manually.
I have some cool visuals to do with process of developing an end idea or product, but I was wondering how much process I should show in my portfolio.
I'm working for a client that requires me to create website style guides from detailed photoshop mockups of the already designed website. These style guides are then passed on to the actual developers so that they can code and create the CSS based on the provided style guides. Previously I've done all of this myself, so I never really bothered creating style guides. I was wondering if anyone has a software of preference that they use when creating style guides. I currently have been using Photoshop and just overlaying lines on top of the website layout to detail dimensions and so forth. Really I wanted to know if there's an 'industry standard' for how these should be created.
I'm a programmer (not a designer) and I work with various designers in the marketing industry. A typical project will consist of a designer coming up with a design for a web page and then handing the design off to me (PSD file or whatever) and I implement the design into a webpage (HTML, CSS, etc...). The problem I run into a lot though is that a lot of designers don't know how to design with the web in mind. They come from a background of designing for print material, and they approach web design the same, which simply does not work. They don't think about things like "What happens to the design when the user changes the browser size" or "tileable background images" or designing using a grid/column system instead of placing elements all over the place or "You can't have a DIV with multiple background images that works for all browsers", or "don't use 12 different web fonts", etc... How do I instruct designers on how to better design with the web in mind? Are there resource for this or books out there that approach the various challenges and hurdles to this? Or do they simply have to learn from experience?
I'm developing a template for my team's daily production needs, and every product must have certain consistent marginalia on it, such as date, product ID, title, subtitle, etc. Currently, this information is manually entered into an InDesign or Illustrator template, and the template is different depending on the product type. Ideally, I'd like to have a series of prompts guide the user (not Adobe proficient) through selecting/entering their marginalia and display the appropriate template with all the text populated and ready for the content. I have no idea what functionality to leverage to do this or if this is even possible. We're using CS6. Can someone point me in the right direction?
I make labels for my beer bottles in Inkscape. With each new batch of beer I need to change the label. When I am done I want to print 8 labels on each page. Right now I export the SVG as PDF and use a small LaTeX document to place the 8 graphics on the page. It works, but is a little clunky. Is there a better way for easy arranging the lables without having to update all eight labels for the next batch?
What is the name of this font and it's family ?
I'm wondering what the general process is for packaging design? I've got a few years of graphic/web design under my belt, but in discussing a re-brand, a client has requested that I also pitch new packaging designs. I'm sure the overall process can't differ much from what I'm accustomed to, but what are the keys to success here?
I am trying to recreate the effect demonstrated on the logo for the Tate galleries in the UK with Photoshop. Here are some of the logo variants: Using quick masking I can emulate the gradient blur, but I haven't found a way to bloat the text in addition to the blurring. I'd like to know how to do this, specifically as a gradient. The font used for the Tate logo appears to be a variant of VAG Rounded, if that helps at all.
Imagine a table with many rows in a web application. The first column contains only an icon, no text. When single-clicking the icon, it must represent selecting that row and takes you to a new page. What icon would you choose? Update: In this particular case, it is selecting a program. Not a software program, but a government program (i.e. the government is running a program to give money away). I was hoping for a context-free icon, and may settle on a hand icon but a context-sensitive icon representing a program would also work.
I'm trying to achieve something like this image in Photoshop CS6: However I only need two large letters inside. The goal is to have the letters in a standard "squared" font (Arial Black) follow the contour of the sphere and split evenly at 90 degrees in the middle. I've tried liquify and spherize filters with no luck, as well as the text warp tool.
I'm making an icon for a speed reader app for the iPhone. These are more or less the designs I've been toying with: Looking at them though, I just find they're a little boring. With the iOS 7 paradigm they seem to fit okay, but I just want them to be a little more exciting. To illustrate what I mean, I really like the icon for Lumo: It's very simple, similar to mine, but has a lot more character to the icon. I only don't like the long shadow thing. How can I spice up my flat iOS icons? (I've tried really hard to avoid the word "pop" :))
I've asked this question before, but for Illustrator: How can I easily deselect a path after creating it in Illustrator? I want to make hair strands, so I'm using the pen tool to make a path with two points. I am making hundred of these strands. I need to deselect the path after each strand. How do I do this? I don't want to copy the strand because that's not the look that I am going for. Thanks a bunch in advance! Here is a video on what I am describing: Vector/vexel: Vexeling (Part 3) [Tagalog]
Does anyone know how to change colors in letters to appropriately represent silhouette? A perfect example is the opening for the movie Superbad: The 'U' is perfectly a U while having the right change of color to form the silhouette. I am trying to do a similar effect in Illustrator CS6, but no luck. I can create outlines of the text I have into fonts and play with the paths, but these seems tedious, is therein easier way?
I have so far used nothing but GIMP for photo touch-ups, logo designing, etc..etc.., Now I have seen that many use illustrator for logo designing, lightroom for photo editing so on... Should I practice then on using other opensource alternatives(since I can't afford adobe suite) for different things? say Inkskape for example? I am not a professional graphic designer/photographer but I do like my hobbies too much, a word of advice is much appreciated!
I am working on this CMYK file and until today all colours could be selected and everything was working fine. Today I decide to give it a bright blue background, and select shade #0033ff. I see a little warning sign near the 'new' colour in the colour picker window: it says out of gamut for printing, and offers me random dark blues like #3e5aa9 or #3d5ba9 in a tiny square below the warning sign. What is happening? This had never happened before, how can I prevent this?
I want to create some vector based buttons which resemble the button design shown below: I can just take a button and treat it as a bitmap and change text and appearance, but the output doesn't look professional. If I have a vector of the same design, it can easily be re-sized and modified without loss in quality. How can I create vector versions of these in Photoshop CS6?
I'm doing a research for conceptual Logodesigns which should fit into a ecosystem. I'm not sure if logosystems, ecosystems or logofamilies are the right terms. I'm thinking about logosets like the Adobe Creative suite or the logofamily of the wikipedia foundation. Do you know any other Logofamilies like these two examples? Thank you.
Is there a way to copy a layer from one file and paste it into multiple files using Actions? I already use actions to re-size the images, but I end up having to manually copy and paste the layer with our custom watermark. I tried using the copy and paste in place to get the logo in correct position. Then I need to re-apply the styles to the layer - not an issue. I just need to select the same layer from the same file each time.
Image should be replaced without pasting image or grouping to the below as grouping remains the previous image.
I need to send a image as the title says. But the amount of RGB choices confuse me... There's sRGB built-in, sRGB, adobe RGB, apple RGB... I thought of choosing "Best RGB", is it okay...?
I have N images in foldes with the same dimensions (HxW). Is there any software that can resize all images to the configured size (for example proportionally reduce size of the pic by X) and build a one image - grid of this images? Maybe only build a grid from images without resize? For example - i have 20 images 900300, after give the folder with images as input to the software i'll get one image: 3000200 (2 rows, 10 colums of images 300*100).
I'm pretty much a graphics design noob, as you can tell by this very basic question. What I am trying to achieve is to create a set of Android icons from an SVG file that I have. In case you didn't know, in order to support the different device sizes, I am supposed to create an icon for MDPI, HDPI, and XHDPI screens. More detailed information can be found here Here is the recommended dimensions for each size: MDPI - 160dpi, 48x48px HDPI - 240dpi, 72x72px (1.5x MDPI) XHDPI - 320dpi, 96x96px (2x MDPI) As I said before, I am starting with an SVG file that I have. The first thing I am doing is opening the SVG file using GIMP. Here is where I start to get confused. What value should I put for the pixels/in? The default is 90. After I get past that screen, I pretty much just export it right away to a PNG. When I do that, I am prompted with another screen with a bunch of different options. Usually I just leave it as the default, but I'm not sure if that's the best idea. Anyways, when I go through this process, my icons still look really blurry on my Nexus 4. Any help is greatly appreciated.
I have never created animations, but I want to make one for my website's home page. Basically what I have is an image where each chakra of human body is shown with its name. I want to show how the energy level moves in the body, from lowest chakra to top most chakra, changing the colors of the energy as they level up to a different chakra. Which software can I use to make this animation?
I am trying to change the path of a two anchors. I have tried grouping the two anchors I do not want connecting together and goto Object>Path>Divide Objects Below, but nothing happens. I get the message, "The filter cannot complete because more than one object is selected." I only have the two anchors from the object selected, so I am lost. I do not want to remove the anchors, just have the path of two between removed, and reconnect to a different anchor. This image shows what I want to do in illustrator CS6. Thank You
How can I edit the mask that is being applied to this layer?
I'm trying to move my image without having my layer mask move with it. How do I move the image without moving the mask? See the images below for a visual depiction. Is it possible to move just the image?
I created a RSVP card for a friend and in the AI file the color is NAVY Blue but when I save as a PDF and attach it on the email it is black. Does anyone know a solution?
I am attempting to experiment with different colours for the grey, orange and pink areas of this image. They all appear with no separation on a single layer. So far I've tried selecting and separating them on to their own layers, then adjusting the hue/saturation of those layers. This did not work, however, as I only succeeded in adjusting the entire image. What's the easiest way to accomplish this? Is there a easier way than using hue/saturation and adjustment layers? I can't quite figure out how the resulting colours correspond, so it would be easier if I could select the colours I wished to use directly... Thank you in advance.
I'm having a rather annoying problem! I have RGB images made in Photoshop that I need to convert to CMYK. When I save the file my black background is converted to a light grey! I tried deleting my background and adding a pure black background in my PSD file but even that comes out grey! There is no way to save black? The colors all look fine in Photoshop, it's just when I save them as TIFF/JPEG. How can I prevent this?
I'm using Illustrator CC, and have a tear-drop shaped object which has a gradient mesh applied to it. I need to use the pathfinder divide tool in combination with another simple shape to take a chunk out of the teardrop, but the pathfinder tools don't seem to have any effect on an object with gradient mesh applied. Am I missing something obvious, or is this not possible?
I am currently trying to make some rounded social icons for my website. I managed to fine a blog online which supplies some vector cutouts of some of the popular site logos I need. What I want to try and do is use the vector image to cut the shape of that image in a rounded circle so I can have it transparent in the middle of the circle like so: This is what I have at the moment: My question is what is the easiest way to to this? I have tried searching a few terms for it online but I am not sure what the process would be called.
Question: If I have a vector path (let's say it's an SVG), what's a website I can send it to and get various "styles" in return? What I mean by "style" is just: change the colors of the vector paths around randomly or based on some palette, and apply some kind of visual effects... and for my purposes, it's perfectly fine if the result is a raster, so therefore whatever "visual effects" are applied could be raster effects. ... My specific purpose (irrelevant to OP): I have a client who wants to have lots of real-life QR codes in his store, and I just want to make them less of eyesores. There are a few websites around that generate styled QR codes, but not much variety. So I'm looking for sites that can take my already-generated QR codes as vector paths and just stylize them for me; the more styles the better, and "random" styling is fine by me since I can just choose whichever results look good to my eye. However, QR codes are NOT on-topic for this OP; I'm aware that many "visual stylings" would make the codes unreadable by a scanner, but then again, many can be read just fine.
I'm editing an svg in Inkscape and I have an object on top of another object. I'd like to use the shape of the top object to cut the object beneath it. For those who are familiar with GIMP, I'm trying to do something like the "alpha to selection" tool.
I am trying to optimize an animated GIF image in Photoshop. The current size is 2.2 MB. Following the guides I found online, they told me to "Save as Web" and then decrease the colors from 256 down to 128 or 64. I tried that — however, when I try to decrease it, the size actually increased. 128 colors = 4.4 MB 64 colors = 5 MB Does anyone know why this is happening? Original (256 colors): After (128 colors):
In Photoshop we can display the grid, but I want this grid to be printed so I want to make the grid myself. What's an easy way to make this?
Why can't I get a hard border when I used modify -> border? This is maddening and I've read about 5 posts so far that do not solve the problem?
I have some icons I'd like to purchase and use from iconfinder.com, but they are only available as .ico files. I want to use these as part of a user-interface on a website, so I need them as either bitmap or vector format that I can bring into Photoshop to produce transparent .png files. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get .ico files into Photoshop through some third-party application? If it matters, I am using a Windows computer.
How would you draw something like that blue border above, where there's a solid line that fades out to total transparency on one side, in GIMP?
Background I'm a complete novice and not very tech savvy but I'm interested in teaching myself how to create and design images in a vector based format. What I need to do I would like to get started with the basic concepts of vector drawing. I would also like to understand the difference between raster and vector images. My questions Where can I find a good explanation of vector and raster fundamentals, so that I can gain a better understanding of them and the terminology used to describe their concepts? What resources/websites are the best starting point for a complete vector newbie? What is the best way to start learning about vectors?
I'm building a new website in Dreamweaver CS5 and I've made a default spry menu bar. Now I want that the menu bar has an 3D look. When you click the button on the menu bar, I would like an effect that makes the button look pushed. How can I accomplish that? Here is my design so far:
I am planning to design a couple of phone cases which contain features other phone cases don't have. My plan of action is like this: Design phone cases on computer Send emails around to companies that manufacture and sell phone cases showing my designs and asking for a certain price (like 10% sales on the phone cases) This is first time I am doing something like this. Is the approach I am planning to do is correct in trying to get a company interested in my phones cases designs? (If this is wrong place to ask this question then can you guide me to the correct Stack Exchange site please)
I have a library of custom Fireworks symbols which had symbol scripts allowing me to control the display attributes of elements and text via the Symbol Properties panel. The symbols and the scripts were created using Fireworks CS5.5 using the built in script editor. When loading the same exact scripts into Fireworks CC6 they appear in the common symbol library but when they are added to the document the Symbol properties panel does not display the scripted options. I have tried opening the script in the editor in the CC6 version and resaving with no change in behavior. Does anyone: See the same behavior (i do not see any help articles / issues on Adobe.com) Have a fix for the broken symbol scripts
I'm trying to recreate (as close as possible, doesn't need to be exact) a logo with text, but am having trouble. The reason I'm not just using the image is because it will be looped several hundred thousand times in a mailing app and introduces unnecessary overhead so I just want to use the closest possible text alternative. I've tried the various font identifying sites (whatthefont, etc.) but it's to jumbled and Photoshoped to identify. Any help is greatly appreciated.
From this iPad App Store screenshot, what are the fonts for the Title, Author and Description text? Myriad Pro?
I don't know if the question's wording is correct. Basically, I have something like this: As you can see, blue is fading into white. The blue and white are both merged in one layer. I want to take out the white, leaving a transparent background, so that blue can fade into any background color. Obviously just selecting the white pixels and deleting them won't do the trick, because the pixels in between would either be deleted as well, destroying the fade out effect, or kept, and it would still fade to white until another solid color appeared. So is there any way to achieve this?
Maybe I've just completely missed the option, but how in the world do you crop and resize an image simultaneously in PS CS6? In CS5 and prior, when using the crop tool, I could set dimensions for the crop, resize the crop area to my liking, and cropping would resize the image - not just change the aspect ratio while maintaining the original image size. I know that I can go down to "Size & Resolution..." in the dropdown on the left side of the crop toolbar, but that seems more than a little kludgy when previous versions could do it without any fancy footwork.
Yesterday I went to a local art market and found some work I really liked: In de wolken 80x80cm op basis van acryl by Kitty Meijering It made me wonder how I might achieve a similar effect in Photoshop, but I could not find anything online. So, if anybody could point me in the right direction it would be highly appreciated!
Yahoo is currently changing its logo's font every day and I particularly liked this font: Would anyone know if this font is a custom development of Yahoo or if it is some (possibly paid) public font? I tried myfonts.com but it couldnt identify it.
The Adobe After Effects CC feature Composition -> Save Frame As -> Photoshop Layers does exactly what I want. However, it is very time consuming to do this for each frame (I am animating a game character in Adobe After Effects, and then using the .psd files to create a sprite sheet). Is there any way (perhaps a script) that can repeat this action for each frame, automatically numbering them, so it's one-click to export the entire sequence?
I have this image sprite containing many small icons. I don't know the accurate size, height and width of each icon and it's too difficult for me to find it manually with my current tools (I am using Google chrome to edit CSS). Additionally, I need to know, in pixels, how far each icon is from the top and left of the whole image file. This is the image file: Are there any software or Photoshop tools that will enable me to select each icon and find out how big it is, and how far it is from the top and left of the image?
I want to import a PDF with multiple pages into Photoshop. The PDF contains tables which have a shading behind the row names and column names in the first column and row. Is there some way to use Photoshop to modify this filling? Maybe to somehow detect this rectangular a object and then adjust the colour of something?
I'm trying to render an italicized lowercase omega (ω) with an inverted breve ( ̑ ) in a webpage using Times New Roman. I'm using the combining character approach: ̑ ( ̑ ) and ω (ω) should combine into a single character ̑ω (̑ω). The resulting character looks fine if I copy and paste it into Notepad, but it has a problem on the webpage (or on this very stackexchange page): the inverted breve is too far to the left (see here). So far, messing around with possible CSS solutions only makes things worse. For example, <em>τ<span style="margin-left:-5px">̑</span>ων</em> produces this. Does anyone know how to adjust the location of the inverted breve? Thanks.
Is there any way in Illustrator or Photoshop to format the fill of a rectangular object so that the fill looks a bit like here? Could somebody maybe point me in a direction? Or tell the unclear part of the question?
Is using yellow text on a black bg bad as Mike pointed out here? If yes what colors should I use (RGB or hex values)?
How do you prevent a transparent PNG-24 image from getting light edges when resized without having to force them out using the Webkit Optimize Contrast CSS rule? Clarification: Resizing the image in Chrome results in lighter colored lines inside the letters and shapes near the edges. Those light edges are making the image jagged rather than sharp when sized down to 200px x 50px from its original 350px x 90px size. Here is a better screenshot of the problem: (Original image was made using Save for Web on Illustrator)
I use pen tool a lot to create custom shapes and sometimes add a new path to the existing vector mask, but I only know to choose at the tool bar to switch between the two. Is there any quicker way to switch between the path and shape section with shortcut keys? Edit: I would like to create new custom shapes and edit existing paths without leaving the pen tool. Is that possible?
I am using GIMP to edit my images. I have a regular playing card from a top down, 2D view. I want it to appear as though it were being tossed very quickly. I wanted to remove the top down view and add some speed blur. I have checked many of GIMP's features, but cannot find what I am looking for. Any help or similar suggestions?
The company I'm designing a site for has an logo that I must work with. All of my ideas for standard color palettes and layouts are challenged by this logo.. Most [good looking] logos I've worked with and seen have one, two, maybe three colors. This one has six. They look okay within the context of the logo, but I'm having a difficult time translating any of them into the rest of the design. The only thing that's been promising is use of mostly neutral colors, but this leaves the site looking a tad bit boring, in my opinion. Does anyone have any tips for this sort of situation? Edit: Thanks for the answers, guys. I'm not comfortable posting the actual logo, but I threw this together to give a better idea of what I'm working with as far as colors and their corresponding dominance- I probably made the color combination sound worse than it actually is because I've been over-thinking this. My most recent design iteration came out pretty well, but it does incorporate DA01's one-color suggestion which I'll have to run by the client. That opens up a lot of options.
I'm looking for the common names of the four basic control states (for desktop interfaces): Control is in its default state; Cursor is hovering above the control; Control is being pressed; Control is being held down, but the cursor is outside its pressing zone So far I could come up with the following names: default; under cursor; pressed under cursor; pressed But I don't think those are very good. Shorter and more intuitive names would look much better in code. Perhaps there are common names for each of these states?
I'm looking to place the color proof/test somewhere on the printable area of a box. The problem is that I don't know what they are called and where to get information about them (pattern, template, etc). These patterns I believe are designed and placed to ensure print quality.
I'm creating a t-shirt design and need to know how to combine all the white shapes that make this image and separate it from any dark green. The white image will eventually be printed on a dark green t-shirt as shown in the template. If you open the file you can see that the image was created with a combination of white and dark green shapes. I would like the white part that's visible to be the only image in this file. Here's the link to the illustrator file: http://www.lendtmusik.com/NWBandAlumniT-Shirtversion2.ai
This is a rather stupid question so I apologise in advance but I just wanted to be 100% sure! I have a set of photos at 300 ppi that are 800 pixels by 800 pixels and need to convert them in Photoshop to 72 ppi for web use (at the same size: 800px by 800px). In Photoshop if I use the 'Resize Image' option and uncheck 'Resample Image' and then change the resolution to 72 obviously the pixel size will stay the same (but the physical dimensions in cm/inches will change). Presumably this will cause no quality loss at all compared to the original as all pixels will be retained there will just be less pixels per inch (as many as are required for web)? I just wanted to make sure as one of my designers told me it would degrade the image quality but I don't think that's right? The final image file used on the web will be a jpg but presumably in this same scenario TIFs would be the best source file type so as to not save to jpg twice (and suffer the associated image degradation)? Thanks so much everyone! Dave
In Illustrator's print dialog, I can choose trim marks and color bars, however it decides to place them outside of the print area. The print I'm working on will be die-cut and would like to move the registration marks and color bars to a specific area inside the die-cut area. Is it possible to get access to those marks in illustrator as objects? I'd be happy with a pointer to a vector based template as well.
I was trying to recreate this kind of image in Adobe Illustrator. I had tried perspective grid tools in Illustrator as well as blend options, but couldn't get the proper result. How can I create this using the perspective tool?
It seems accepted amongst typographers that the double space after a period is a dated artifact of monospace typewriters, but is it acceptable to use a double space in between sentences like: I trust Dr. Wang. Dr. Wang is very experienced. Sure, you could rework the wording or even make this a single sentence with a conjunction, but what's the best way to typeset these two exact sentences in a proportional typeface? Doesn't a double space help? I trust Dr. Wang. Dr. Wang is very experienced.
This is something that I have struggled with for years. If I create a shape layer with rounded edges - for example with a 10px radius - if I resize the overall shape then the corner radius grows with it as well. What I want to do is keep the radius of the edges whilst resizing the overall size. The only way I can do this is by manually selecting the points on 2 corners and dragging one side of the shape layer. This is a bit of a pain though, and isn't the most efficient way of doing things Is there an easy way to do this?
I want to create Image like below. Can someone show me how to do this in Photoshop? Thanks!
Design of almost all sites on the web is sharp. How can I create a good web page where tabs, buttons, and other UI elements mimic the style of impressionism? I find common themes of impressionism to be small brush strokes, open composition, depiction of light as opposed to usual web graphics. Do you think is it possible to connect these two? Do you have any ideas how to do that? Or maybe someone did it before and you know page like that? I'll appreciate each opinion, idea, link or photo.
I have recently drawn and scanned a children's book that I will try to have published. I converted the scans into vectors using Vector Magic in order to have nice, clean, smooth lines without any stray pixels. These files are now .ai files. I was wondering what my next step is in terms of cropping - The pages are currently fully scanned A4s. I wanted to crop the edges off that were not actually part of the drawing and make it a resizable landscape. I haven't decided on the exact dimensions, but it will be in landscape, perhaps 18.7w × 12.7h. re-sizing or moving elements - some drawn elements (i.e. a person) are either too big or two small. In Photoshop, I would simply cut these elements out, paste them to a new layer, move and resize them. This also includes rotation for crooked scans. painting. The drawing is currently black and white lines. I need to "paint around the vector sketches" - filling in all the white. I have recently played with the Live Paint Tool in AI, so I think I could do this. getting it print ready. I haven't decided if I will self publish or submit to some of my favorite children's book publishers. If I self publish, I have seen mostly 300dpi PDF requirements. What's the best way to prepare vector graphics for print production? I am new to Illustrator but well seasoned with Photoshop. It seems that Illustrator does not have the same functionality as PS. I tried converting and then opening as an .eps but my smooth lines were very pixelated. I'd really appreciate any advice! Here is an example scan (non-vectorized) from the book
I've created a simple vector pennant type banner using Photoshop. I'd like to put a stroke on the banner with dashed lines approximately 3 pixels in from the edges of the shape. I know I can add a stroke to the shape and that looks fine, but I want to position the stroke so that there is a space of about 3 pixels between the edge of the pennant and the stroke. Is there a way to do that using Photoshop?
Hi there I'm trying to export all of the layers in my .psd to .pngs/.jpegs and I am having trouble exporting them so that the sizes of the individual .pngs are the size of the image they contain. I have seen this thread which has a script that almost does this but since I'm a new user here I can't comment on it...if the creator of that script (Johannes) could respond i would be very grateful.
I'm trying to iterate through every layer in a document and for some reason my script only goes through the first half (13 out of 25) and then at 14 it says that the element doesn't exist. Could you guys help me figure out why? Below is the code snippet which goes through each layer function processLayers(extension) { var doc = app.activeDocument; //go through each layer and create a folder alert('length is ' + doc.artLayers.length); var length = doc.artLayers.length; for (var layer = 0; layer < length; layer++) { var folderName = generateFolderName(doc.artLayers[layer].name, extension); //create folder in photoshop with folderName var folder = doc.layerSets.add(); folder.name = folderName; doc.artLayers[layer].move(folder, ElementPlacement.INSIDE); } }
Let me begin this question by saying outright that I don't consider myself a designer! I'm a developer and my strengths do not lie in design but I am in a situation at the moment where I need to design a site and I have a number of different possible color schemes that I'd like to try out. I've tried this before but ran into a number of problems - namely which color to put where! So for example I've picked out this scheme as one of my possible color schemes but how do I know which color should go where? For someone who is seasoned in doing so it may be obvious but is there a formula or method that can be followed in implementing a color scheme? EDIT: Also, once I've chosen my color scheme which usually seems to consist of 5 colors - can I, or am I expected to, implement different shades of those colors if required? Or does this decrease the integrity of the scheme? It's issues like this that leave me confused about color scheme implementation.
I'm trying to create a line drawing of my friend Steve, I was Steve's best man at the wedding where the photo was taken. I like the shot because the smile it subtle but definitely there. I've been tweaking the image below in illustrator for at least 2 hours and Steve still doesn't look that happy. What is it about the image that I've got wrong, Eyes and mouth are pretty much exactly as the original. Any help is much appreciated. Version 2 - Incorporating answers so far Been away and had another crack, Steve looks cooler now but still not exactly delighted to be there. It's an improvement. As many of you said "it's all in the eyes" and while they are still not perfect they are much better. Feedback welcome.

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