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I've googled for over 30 mins now, I can't find a free barcode font for EAN-13. Anyone know of any? fontsquirrel have none, Dafont have a few, But none of them are EAN-13 (as far as I know).
The opacity and fill settings on a layer in Photoshop seem to do the same thing. What is the difference?
I have to make some 3d expo booth designs. I worked with 3D Max before but I am not sure if that's the right tool for this kind of thing. Also I was not very good at it. Some examples: Is there a good and easy software for this kind of 3D design? Where can I find library resources for this kind of things? Bonus point...
I remember I opened a PSD file which did this. It had like 4 hidden "adjustment" layers, each for a specific color, and all the elements that used a certain color were being changed depending on which adjustment layer was visible. Something like this: Notice the visible "pink" layer. That layer should make a part of t...
My default transparency grid in Photoshop is white. Where can I change this to transparent or some other color, so that I can more easily differentiate what is really white and what is transparent in my picture?
I'm using css to emboss text with this: text-shadow: black 1px 1px 5px; My site uses different font colors and background colors. I was wondering how I can choose the "best" embossing color based on the color of the font and background color of the text.
I'm trying to add detail and grunge to my vector based designs through the use of procedural textures. Currently, I'm using the noise filter, and the sponge filter on a grey rectangle as multiply or soft-light layers to generate effects that are similar to what I'm after but the level of control leaves much to be desir...
where I can find very small and clear icons that I can use in a personal (non-commercial) project?
Is it possible to insert a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer at the top of all layers - but make it so that chosen layers are not affected by it? Can it be done without altering positions? (Ie. moving this layer down, and moving up the ones that I want to keep unchanged.)
How can I get two pictures into one gimp window?
Do any of you happen to know of some recommended techniques in creating the effect/look that makes a page appear as though it had been folded before? Something like this:
I'm attempting to replicate the drop shadow effect used by Xcode for it's dock icon. Specifically, the shadow around the blue square. It seems to be some mixture of outer-glow, drop-shadow and stroke, but I can't get it to look quite right. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Here are the standard and zoomed-in view...
I have some traditional media artwork that I'd like to scan and then have printed to be shown in an art show. I'll be doing the scanning. Where do I go to get this done? (What is the generic name for the type of business that does this?) Is there a online company that will let me just upload the files and will do a go...
I want to create a cool looking yet simple exclamation mark with just CSS. Anyone have any cool ideas?
You can see my site here. The share buttons on the left side obviously look quite untidy... Any ideas on how to make them look better?
Can someone direct me to a photoshop cs5 book that details the image making process from beginning to end ie showing how to make an image from scratch, best techniques etc Please share why you think this book is good and why you recommend the particular book.
I'm creating a website an artist who draws with pencil+paper. The artist has scans and/or prints of all the illustrations completed over several years for various clients. Many of these were for pay. I'm wondering if it is legal for the artist to display these scanned copies on their website portfolio or if they woul...
I'm designing a web site which has a large number of categories. On one particular page each category will be displayed with a photo, light description and a a list of subcategories or products. Here's the completely design-less version. I'm about to start working on a shaded box of some kind to wrap this up in as wel...
When I export for web and devices in photoshop CS5 it comes out pixelated. What setting should I change? I have a picture of my export settings at http://www.brandonsdesigngroup.com/photoshop.png
I have used Photoshop and Illustrator a little bit and am about to spend time learning more about Graphic Design. I would like advice on what one (Windows 7 compatible) application to purchase when doing the following things: create designs for fairly simple on-line games General web design Logo design
I am just getting my teeth into Gimp and am not a graphic designer by any stretch of the imagination! I'm a developer trying to make myself a bit more useful on the design front. Anyway, I am modifying an image for a friend and I basically need to redraw the image from scratch as all I have is a low res version of the...
I'm building a website with a focus on searching so I want a very large search form in the header. I've been looking for a tutorial using Photoshop to create a background image to superimpose the search form on without much luck. Does anybody know where I can find one? It seems that most designers just use CSS3.
I'd like to set the behavior of the cropping tool. I want it to define cropping areas based on... A fixed, numerical set of pixel dimensions. A given proportion, e.g., a 9 by 12 area of arbitrary size. Free size and proportion -- wherever I release the mouse button. Where can I set that for the cropping tool? UPDATE...
EDIT: A Big update on this topic is presented with PS CC 14.2! Now you can have linked smart objects, it works like in InDesign. Just go to 'File → Place Linked' and choose your PSB file. This is the Promo video from Adobe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6AIgoFDwlk Is it possible to import a PSB file (saved smart ob...
I am a web dev and competent in Fireworks, but not so much in Photoshop. I have just received a layered PSD file to turn into a web page. Can anyone tell me the easiest way to export all layers to individual png files? There are lots of layers and doing this manually seems wrong. I have seen this but it does seem ther...
What's kosher when providing feedback to your designer? Are there best practices? If he's making a mockup of an iPhone dashboard should I tell him that I'd prefer the icons be monochromatic, or that the trees are too large and the mountains too soft? I run a small web team with a designer, a programmer, and a copy ed...
I'm designing a page with both a background image and a background color for the area past the end of the (gradient) background image. Something like: background: url("/images/bg.png") repeat-x scroll center top #666666; I can get the background color to match the end of the image in either Firefox or Chrome, but not ...
I bring in pictures in RAW format from my camera to Photoshop CS5 but in raw format they are around 10 MB each. When I do Ctrl-Alt-Shift-S to save them for web, I get a dialog every time warning me that since they are big, performance may be degraded. It is really annoying that this is raised on every single one I sav...
Disclaimer: This question might not be suitable for this site, I am not sure beforehand. Having seen this sketch on today's Google Doodle, I remembered that I have an innate crush for them - those having little details on facial expressions, and on shapes/body parts yet still expressive enough. They look like rough ske...
I'm looking for sources of inspiration for the graphical design of a web application. The application is used to display historical information on industrial processes. In the back end there is a time-series database and a data warehouse. The users of the application will configure pages with various information displa...
I need help in color math. I have one main color and i want to know how i can calculate other colors of chosen harmony. I need such color harmonies: triada, complement, analogous, monochromatic. Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Dima.
I've looked for this online forever but can't seem to find it. Is there a digital pen that doesn't need special paper, uses easy to replace cartridges, and let's me see what I'm writing on a screen as I'm writing it. I don't need anything wireless or fancy as I'm only going to be using it by a computer. It's important ...
I'm creating a website whose sole purpose is to show users large datasets in tables. Many of the tables have upwards of 20 columns, and I absolutely hate having horizontal scrollbars. What are the best practices regarding the reduction of horizontal scrollbar use with large tables? I've already implemented a toggle bu...
My next project is to design (as a vector graphic) a logo inspired by the so-called layer style of graffiti. As such, I need to learn as much as I can about this particular graffiti style. It would also be useful to have an online reference for graffiti-inspired graphics in any upcoming projects... Are there any out t...
I've seen this effect on several sites, basically it's just a simple background with a bunch of dots, and I'd like to use this for a background for something but I don't know where to start!
Here are my menu tabs: #1 is the look I am trying to achieve but I can't quite make it look the same. #2 is my attempt. I have 2 questions: Is there another easy way to create these that does not involve the Pen tool? Is there a way to make it so that the end result that does not look too pixelated or blurry with a ...
This might be too subjective but I'm curious about other peoples' experiences. Mods, please close if this is too far into "not a real question" territory. I see many questions on this site about "what are good resources?" and "where do I learn?", but what are common mistakes that designers make? Ie., if you're on the...
I know logo design contests and the whole "spec" work issue is a controversial subject. As a designer given the AIGA's position on spec work what are the pros and cons of entering such contests?
I've had to use clouds in projects on more than one occasion, and I'd like to find a way to extract (select only) the clouds. There are a lot of good brushes for this type of thing but often times they're too small, If I could figure out the process used to make something like this I would be able to make my own from s...
I am keeping a close eye on the question about logo design contests, and I hope that my 1st Question here does not get completely slammed. It never really occurred to me that 'logo design contests' are similar to Spec Work and this could be considered unethical. I am an amateur web developer and it became clear that my...
How many different software applications should a designer be familiar with? I've been asked to work on Illustrator, and also .paint [Paint.NET? -Ed]. I'm confused about how many applications I need to practice. If I don't learn .paint, will I still be able to survive in the industry? I can't settle for only knowin...
I love the font for beanstalkapp logo: Does someone know the font used to make that logo? I used whatthefont.com but it could not pick up the font from the image.
I'm having problems selecting colors in Adobe Fireworks CS5 because when I select a color (either through the color swatches, the color mixer or the windows color picker) it will snap to one of those which are already present in the swatches window. So say I select color #2a2a2a, Fireworks will transform it into #33333...
I'm writing an android app and can't figure out how to display a ramp (could be a bump, like a speed bump, but preferably a ramp) from a top down 2d vie
What's the difference between a graphic designer and an artworker/Mac operator/production artist? Is one a subset of the other? Do they overlap? Are they industry-specific terms? Are in fact artworker/Mac operator/production artist not synonymous?
I would like to create an Illustrator object that is half of a rounded rectangle, such that the top two corners are rounded and the bottom two are not. I thought I could simply start with my rounded rectangle, place a rectangle on top of it, and use "Minus Front" in the pathfinder. However, this causes the resulting sh...
I don't know how to ask this question in general form so I will begin with an example. I would like to scale (and/or resize) the orange rectangle, but keep the two blue squares (1) the same size, and (2) anchored to the corners of the orange rectangle. So, starting from here resizing the group gives (note how the bl...
I was wondering if anyone knows websites which are full of images from different games and movies Like the css galleries but for movies and games (just for inspiration) Hope you can help - thanks
I'm a web developer and I love Photoshop but unfortunately I have some design mock-ups sent over to me in Illustrator. When I viewed the document at 100% the text isn't even legible on my monitor. At 150% things looks like they could be an actual web page and everything is clear. I'm thinking the designer used a screen...
I've tried a number of different settings in the GUI, and have tried manual path tools from the path panel, but no matter what the inset path function completely mutilates the path into a blob. Distance of the inset or offset doesn't make a difference, and these are very simple paths like a square, or a circle. I'm o...
I was looking at some car bodies. Think perfectly shot stock photograph using perfect lighting. You always see some amazing highlighting on the car body. I wish to create a background for a website based on this highlight effect. What I want is for the background to look like a car body closeup complete with this kind...
Or do you have to provide your own?
I am working on a corporate standards book for a client. Client works with two design agencies, my office and Other Agency. Both agencies play nicely together. In one particular file, Other Agency created a chart with some arrows (up and down). These arrows are two particular characters in Wingdings 3. These arrows don...
I have two gifs. I'd like to put one gif on top of the other, but with low opacity. This is what I did: open gif1. create a new layer paste gif2 onto the layer change the opacity of the layer The problem is that for all opacity levels above 50%, the image is fully opaque, and for all levels below 50% it disappears. H...
I need to create a logo for "Adults 50+" program. This is sort of a general activity club/program for folks over 50 years old. Logo needs to reflect an active life style of adults, rather than them preparing them for eternity. Any ideas what can be done with it?
How do I add multiple masks to a layer in Photoshop CS3? I already created one mask for chain link fence so that the fence would appear between a person and his original background: Now I would like to apply a second mask to the chain link fence for dirty grunge effect - for example, make some chains broken or frailed...
If i have outlined an object, say a car, and i have added a red air brush around to give it a color, how could i remove all color outside the outline of the car? Masking etc. ?
When I use Illustrator CS5 on another machine, all objects X and Y are relative to their artboard, not the overall pixel grid (by pixel grid I mean the entire screen). How can I change this so the X and Y values are not relative to the object's artboard?
I am familiar with vector and raster images, in theory. In practice I don't know how to use vectors properly. Can vector images be used in a web pages to increase site compatability? For example, in CSS we can use EM to scale font up and down depending on the resolution capabilities of the device. This is good for ...
How can I resize such items without changing the curvature at edges? You know, I don't want the half-circles at the extremes to become half-elipses. thanks
Is there an already compiled utility for the Scale2x utility for Mac OS X? I've found source code but I'm looking for a utility that is already built.
Is there any way to add a new page to my work in Illustrator ? I've seen these buttons on the bottom: I guess they are for the pages ? thanks
I'm developing an iOS apps and I need to find an easy design tool, something that would allow me to drag widgets into my GUI, and visually build it. I'm currently using Adobe Illustrator with this nice kit: http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2010/12/illustrator-ipad-sketch-elements.html But Illustrator is not that straightfo...
I use Adobe Photoshop but I find it kind of buggy sometimes. When I import what I do in photoshop to Flash the quality of the design drops down a notch...
In the CSS of a website is it better, for human readability, define margin and padding units in px, em or pt?
I'd like to join a transparent line and a transparent filled circle together without creating an overlap region with a different transparency. How can I do this in InDesign? None of the path or pathfinder tools seem to accomplish this. To ilustrate the problem: Note the small overlap region (between the yellow circle ...
The nuns enforced it with a ruler: two spaces after a period at the end of a sentence. I, along with many others do this instinctively. Why is this considered incorrect/improper in printed materials and on the web?
Is there any good free website or graphic software to make cartoon from pictures of person?
I've been a programmer my whole life, and now I've found that I really need to start designing my own stuff. I know how to use Photoshop in and out, but I just can't create anything nice. I often visit Dribbble and try to get some inspiration, but I get overwhelmed by their creativity. How do they come up with this stu...
Is there a better way to represent text in a layout or design? "Lorem Ipsum" is good at taking your attention away from the text to showcase the design as a whole but I think it looks unnatural for typeset design. Why is it used and is there a better way? What alternatives the experts use for dummy/placeholder text?
When drawing something symmetrical with the pen tool in Photoshop, is there any way to set up a mirror line at a given angle, so as you draw a shape on one side it gets automatically duplicated and reflected to the other? I'd rather not have to copy-paste-transform at multiple intervals to see how it's looking. This is...
I'm not much of a designer (yet), and I'm still in the learning phases. I'm not bad with Photoshop, but when it comes to color theory and typography, I'm not sure I have any idea. So, I just create things and play around with colors till they are visually appealing to me. But there are rules to colors, and I never know...
I'm making a web site and have been told the corporate color is pantone 2745. In illustrator, here, and here it is a deep indigo color. Here, here, here and here it is a deep violet sort of color. The indigo sources (at least the first two) seem more compelling to me, but at the same time, I prefer the violet colour as...
I'm interested to know what sort of software - beyond basic standard graphics out of Excel - people use to generate data visualisations. Do you craft things by hand and then build them in something like InDesign? I'm fascinated by the process that changes a table of data into a visual esthetic and would also welcome r...
I'm a developer having a bash at designing a church site for a relative and was hoping to get some feedback on what i've done so far. I tend to like clean, minimal sites so that's kinda where i'm going with this too. I've taken a basic wordpress theme and added most of my own styles to it. I'm not entirely sure about h...
How can I export an Inkscape image as a png without any alpha?
How can I resize my image so the height is 180 and the width is 120? Currently when I try to change the size, I'm forced to keep the dimensions fixed. I see that the lock is enabled but I don't know how to remove it. The file is a png. I've tried saving in Adobe's PSD format but that didn't make a difference.
Other questions that deal with book recommendations do not address my particular need. I'm looking for web design books that teach me how to design using specific techniques and elements. Such as background textures, tasteful buttons, 'web 2.0' design elements... etc... I want a book that will show me the tricks I need...
This is related to a question I asked on tex.stackexchange, which has a color aspect. The result of that question is the following image: I have drawn a series of gray squares on the left, with a red branch departing to the right. The goal is to have different red squares with a different saturation, but all with the ...
Does anyone know who's behind the playful illustrations on the current Firefox website? For example: From the Firefox mobile page: From the Firefox download page:
What's this style of design called? http://www.mademyday.de/ Thanks. [UPDATE:] I should have posted more examples, here's another and I'll look for more: http://www.fajnechlopaki.com/ I'm talking about styles like "grunge" or "elegant" that if you search for you can find more designs that look like that.
Is it correct that, once bought a font, I'm not limited in time or number of projects I can use the font in? Say, I own Helvetica. Does it mean that now I have a right to use it in any of my projects?
What sort of icon/graphic could represent 'concept'? It would be very helpful as a place-holder when I am making basic sketches and notes. Third Party Edit (from comments): hhajemi (OP): From my experience, I will normally try to clarify some key concepts in the areas of interest and the following discussions will be ...
I've been tasked with creating "thank you for attending" HTML e-mails/graphics for a number of events. I've already done a few, but they all need to look distinct and I'm running out of ideas. Does anyone know of a gallery that shows this type of design, or of any outstanding examples?
I am creating a logo and I would like to put a double outline on it, do you know any clever way to do it ?
I have a monochrome image, and would like to replace the colour with a gradient. I assume the best way to do this would be to create a background layer with the gradient, and then apply the monochrome image as a mask. However, I can't for the life of me get this to work. If I copy the image, and then try to paste it i...
I'm trying to create an image which contains Arab text. This is the (HTML entities for the) text: العربية Raw, it is العربية When I paste the text into GIMP, I select and correctly get RTL (right to left) text, but the characters are not "joined", as described at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Arabic. If I paste int...
I have an image and from it I want to create a new palette. But PSP Help isn't much and doesn't much. The menu choice I want might say "from the selected image, create a new palette," but that choice doesn't exist. How can I create a brand-new palette from the image? Thanks!
What color profile settings should be used in Photoshop for web design? Does monitor calibration effect save for web images? I keep my monitor calibrated with a colorimeter and want to make sure my colors will be consistant acros all major browsers. I use my calibrated monitor profile for my workspace, color managemen...
My icons have been (lightly) criticized as "too 1998-ish": http://www.sellmycalls.com/pics/98ish-icons.png From left to right: refresh; auto/manual refresh toggle; filters; favorites; alerts. To what was the critique aimed at? What the critic meant with "too 1998-ish"? Can someone show me examples of icons that are con...
I'm developer; I use Windows but my designer uses Mac. Whenever he sends a graphic file to me (.psd and .ai files) the colors show differently on Mac and Windows, even if I take the color code from color picket [sic]. Is there any solution to this? I want to set my Windows 7 color scheme in that way so I can get the sa...
I'm looking at starting down the path of creating my own unique designs for my sites (I'm a developer at heart, and care more about things working). I'm most familiar with Adobe Photoshop, but after the research I've done I've decided that that isn't the best program to use. (Not to mention my version is fairly out of ...
How can I create an image in Photoshop that imitates a photo taken with a low-quality phone camera? Examples of qualities I want to simulate: blurring in some areas caused by a dirty lens low quality exposure handling in the darkroom noise Some examples:
I'd like to copy selection shape in gimp and then paste it somewhere else (I've got first half of the image and I'd like do make it's mirror reflection). Do you know how can I do it?
I'm looking for Arial non-fake small-caps. Free, downloadable, and TrueType or OpenType. A free Helvetica would be great but I don't know that Mono ever made small caps for this typeface. I will also settle for Tahoma smalls. Or please suggest a better Helvetica seem-alike. Is there a free source for any of these font...
I'm planning on releasing a design template for a specific platform to make it easier on users who use that platform to design their pages. I want to allow anyone to download this template for free; however, I would not like anybody to sell this template or use it as artwork in a project. Basically, I just want to allo...
In a .png image, I want to color the three far-northwest corner pixels, now colored white, so they are transparent. This is, I want the background color to show through those pixels. But I can't find in PSP7 where to pick up transparent color with the eyedropper. Can you tell me how to color those pixels transparent?
How can I link two layer masks together? I'm trying to create a divider bar in Photoshop, that fades out at each end: As you can see, I have it fading out at the bottom. How can I do the same to the top?
I'm a game programmer, and so yeah, you could call me creative, but I've only created code-generated visuals. I want to get into Concept Art. Where are good places to start? I am looking for both digital and on paper stuff (I can get Autodesk products like Sketchbook Pro for free).
example .jpg: Ideal .png result:

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