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Trying to identify the font used in the Backbone.js logo:
We receive a number of e-mails everyday requesting further information on our prices and service. I used to answer with a "plain text" message and some PDF attachments with a graphical showcase of our products and prices. After that, I built a MailChimp HTML e-mail with all the information and several photos and other images embedded in the main message, sent myself the test-email and used that as a sort of template that I would re-send using Mac Mail and changing some key parts such as "Dear John", service date, etc. However, I realized that many of my recipients were not receiving the message in the way it was intended. In particular, Hotmail users were getting a completely messed up e-mail. So I went back to a simple text message with the attachments and out signature, but I'd really like to reply to inquiring customers with something more elaborate and graphical, in a newsletter style. Is there any tool or site where I can design an inquiry response e-mail template that I can customize with the customer's name and other data, and send directly from the site, and that will work across all e-mail platforms? (Think MailChimp/ConstantContact, but not for newsletters; instead for individual customized e-mails that share a graphical theme/template).
I want to make a stroke to be a little bit further than the object itself, so between object and stroke there will be a transparency. By default, the stroke is touching the object. How can I achieve a stroke that is distant from the object in Illustrator?
There is a colorize tool in GIMP but it only provides HSV. Most of time I want to colorize with RGB so I'm using RapidTables' RGB to HSV color conversion. Is there way to colorize with RGB only?
Is there a way to revert all the changes that I made into document since I opened it? Of course I could just close it without saving it and reopen it again, but may be there is a faster way?
I would like to design a paragraph (full of text) where the font size for EACH new sentence changes in font size and gradually get smaller and smaller with each new sentence. It would probably look best if each new sentence font size and the leading were proportional in percentage as well. I want to keep text from filling from previous sentences and no Hyphenation (if that makes any sense)? i.e. each new sentence has a new font size, no text auto fills/ hyphenates into new sentences, and the leading is proportional with each 'new' font size. Would this be done manually or through something like "Paragraph Styles" in ID or AI ? Any tips for a similar technique?
I want to know how the A in this logo can be created in Photoshop and how the effects are applied. I found the font and other things. I am not able to create the character A without the central bar in Photoshop. How can I create the character 'A', and apply a gradient overlay, just like the one in the picture?
I have a horizontal row of many different smart objects of the same size. I made the row vertical by selecting all the objects and using the free transform tool to rotate the whole row 90 degrees. Now I got the problem that all the objects are facing the wrong way at 90 degrees. I can of course select and rotate them individually, but that takes a lot of time. So to my question, is there a way to rotate multiple objects individually? Thanks in advance!
Recently we have moved from using Fireworks to using Photoshop for mocking op website designs. As I've been used to Fireworks for doing this, I'm running into some issues organising my mockups. Where in Fireworks there are pages and states to organize your design, I'm only aware of layer comps in Photoshop. However, it doesn't seem like a very smart idea to handle completely different pages in a design with layer comps. What is the most efficient way to handle multiple pages and, regarding repeating elements, can you use smart objects across files and change them once and have them update across your designs?
Recently I discovered the work of Andy Gilmore and I would really like to learn how he did this piece. I'm not looking to replicate it but would like to learn the technique. Right now I'm fiddling around with creating triangles, duplicating those and transforming them but this seems rather unwieldy. I am proficient in Photoshop but I recon this is more of an Illustrator project. Any tips are much appreciated!
I would like to convert an image from google maps into a black and white edition, without gray scale, something that will look like that How can this be achieved with Adobe Photoshop CS5?
I just purchased the DIN font, it includes all the following file formats (.otf, .eot, .woff and .ttf) Now these fonts don't look the same on cross platforms like MAC and PC, it looks great on PC but doesn't look the same on MAC (especially the light version of the font, it looks the same as regular). I did some research and noticed that the best way to resolve this issue is to use a SVG version of the font (Google does the same with it's Google fonts). Any of you know how I could convert my fonts to an SVG file format? or any other solution how to resolve this cross platform issue? Thanks
In Photoshop CS6 I have a lot of (smart) objects perfectly spaced out but in the wrong order. All the objects are the same size. Is there a way to swap the location of a object with another one? Would save me loads of time. Thanks in advance!
I changed the background colour of my pdf through: Document Setup -> changing color under "transparency" (grid color) -> checking "Simulate Colored Paper" This changes the background in Illustrator as it should. The problem is: if I save the file as a pdf, the background if my pdf is white again :-( Any idea how to solve this problem? Many thanks in advance!
i am working with 72PPI for both android and iphone ..but some has been reffered 326 has to be set for iphone can i know what difference will occur? i am getting same result in 72 itself
I have a mobile app interface with a list of dates and notes: Sep 5 - No longer contagious Sep 6 - Can return to school ... Sep 9 - Back to normal Right now I am using an ellipsis to indicate a gap in days, or time passing between notes. The problem I'm seeing is that this is commonly used to indicate that the user can tap for "more" info, and users are trying to do this. I see problems with other icons as well: Clock: indicates time itself, not a span of time Hourglass: indicates waiting What can I use to illustrate the passage of a few days time?
I am learning Photoshop at home, but I am finding it quite difficult. Can anyone recommend me any book(s) or resources to learn it (preferably for free)? I have a good internet connection but I'm not sure where to start.
Just so you know I am very new to Creative Suite. I am trying to make a whitepaper using InDesign and then export it into a PDF. The PDF looks blurry if I export it at anything, but 300ppi. The screenshots I am capturing are at 72 ppi, so I have been pasting them into Photoshop and increasing the resolution to 300 ppi. When I increase the screenshots resolution and then put it into InDesign it decreases the blurriness, but its still not very readable. Is there anyway that I can capture these screenshots, put them in InDesign, and have them show up clearly in the PDF? Sorry if this was confusing, please let me know if you need me to further explain.
Ancient cities and towns get recreated a lot in games but I am hoping to find some images, illustrations, composites to use in a video. I realize they will have to be recreations but I am not looking for current images of dilapidated structures. Take for instance, Assassin's Creed, a ton of ancient buildings and cities. Is there anywhere to buy anything like that? Thanks
I am designing an A1 poster (at 300 dpi) and am noticing blurriness on a pixel pattern when I export my PSD to PDF. My methodology for generating the PDF is as follows: Flatten the image Save as -> PDF Options: Do Not Downsample, compression: ZIP These screenshots are both taken at 100% size. This is the view when editing in Photoshop. And this is the output from the PDF The first concern is that the sizes are not identical, I don't know whether this is Photoshop or Adobe Reader. The second concern is that the pixel pattern is not sharp and is instead meshed together, am I doing something wrong here?
H just created a banner in PNG format and I'd like to render a GIF in the center. So the output would be a GIF file where the center moves and the rest of the PNG is made into static frames. I've only done basic things in photoshop and never worked with gif files. Thanks in advance.
Is there a tool -- preferably free -- that can "paint" texture maps in a 3D view? (Similar to Pixologic's Sculptris) I have several low-poly (<1000) models that I want to "touch up" the textures. I've written a program that converts them to .obj including normals and texture coordinates. So far everything shows correctly in Wings3D and Blender. I'm just looking for something fast.
my request is nothing very advanced (the way I think it should be done at least). I blog for a business, and part of "keeping the style throughout" is applying a specific frame. That frame comes from iLife's Keynote (it's a standard picture frame we apply to most pictures). The crappy thing about that frame is that on the sides and edges, it's not transparent. If it were, my issues would be long resolved. What I want to do: I want to be able to apply that frame (on photoshop or wherever) to any picture, without having to worry about the aspect ratio. I suppose I have to create my own template out of that frame. I don't want to distort the pixels, so I also guess I would have to make a somewhat high-res template, too. Is there any way to at least partly automate the process? create a template that I can use in the future? Ideally I would like to apply the frame without having to do any touch-ups.
Ok so the logo has a purplish-background-color (#a11a5c) and the the logo itself is white. Is it possible, that these two colors don't get along at all? The logo size shall be about 250px x 100px and even though it's using vectors it looks like the quality is garbage (kind of blurry and pixelated in some spots). When scaled up to far over 500% it's crisp and smooth, just like we would assume vectors to be. I've also noticed some strange behavior with normal text using these colors. So my guess would be that they just don't agree with each other. Have you guys had any experience with this problem and did you solve it? Note: I'm not in the position to just change the colors. So some kind of advice would be awesome!
Let's say I have a file that's 4'x12' and represents a space on an actual wall. I want to open certain files (of different sizes) and drag each file into the large file in order to arrange the images correctly on the computer before physically hanging the framed finals. When I drag a new image into the larger file, the new image's size and the size of its copy don't match. That is, Say I drag an 8x10 into the large file, well on the large file (trying to control size with guides and rulers) the new image is some other size, but not the right one. What am I doing wrong? How do I make sure that when I click and drag the new image that it will be properly represented?
I have two blocks (div elements) with one black on the top background-color: black and one white on the bottom. Is it possible to have a piece of text that straddles the two zones with inverted colors? For example: the top part of the text "FOO" will be white on black and the bottom part black over a white region.
I am using Illustrator CC and I need to create a large image document 85cm X 200cm, but the printing guy is asking me this document to be in 700dpi. How can I set, emulate or create this within Illustrator? Illustrator only allows me to create 72dpi, 150dpi, or 300dpi.
This picture is taken from the game Cut the Rope: I'm trying to recreate the wave. This is what I have so far, I used Distort > Wave:
I have some images and I want to strip the EXIF data for privacy reasons before I put them up on the website. Is it enough to simply resize them in windows paint? I'm using Windows XP X64.
I'm using PS6 and for some reason, whenever I use the clone stamp tool, it starts recreating the image that I'm covering up, above the original image's position. I select the stamp tool, press down alt, select a small area, release alt and start to fill in the area that I want covered. The image begins to get covered up with my sample, but then the image starts to appear above the location that I'm filling in--as if I had sampled the area I was covering up. Does that make sense? I've reset the tool several times to make sure it wasn't some setting that was off, but maybe something's still set wrong some where. Anyone know what's up? Any help would be much appreciated. I've tried "Aligned" both checked and unchecked, no luck
This is a tall order, but I thought it might be worth asking. I'm working on a project where I need to basically fake a large urban map: streets, parks, rivers, etc. Essentially I'd like to wind up with something that looks like Google Maps at one or two stages short of maximum zoom. I don't really want to spend an infinite number of hours drawing it, however. Ideally, this would be something that I could generate in SVG, but reasonable resolution bitmaps would be fine too. Gozzy's Map Generator and Dave's Mapper are kind of what I have in mind, but I need urban, not D&D. Suggestions?
I'm working with Photoshop for over 10 years already but can't find this simple thing: When I'm creating repeatable objects I always duplicate folders and work my way from up to the bottom. When checking my layers they are arranged differently. The bottom duplicate is on top of the layers and visa versa. Does anyone know how to change the duplicate layer option order? I want to make them down instead of going up the last layer.
I am trying to create a star, with a gradient color effect. When I try to use the gradient color tool I get the message Could not use the gradient tool because the content of the layer is not directly editable There is one "solution" but I don't think is too direct. I can rasterize the layer and using the laso tool to select the region I would like to color, use the gradient tool to make the color effect. Is there any other way around it?
I have recently opened some images and in the layers palette, instead of saying "background" it says "Index". I have been unable to figure out why it says "index" and cannot do anything to the image because every tool is greyed out. What's up? I must be doing something wrong.
I use CSS sprites to reduce server load and thus make the page load faster. This is very effective but I find managing these compound images difficult. I decided to use Photoshop slices to keep track of the various areas allotted to each image (some of them have white space around), because guides quickly became unmanageable. The problem is now that when I export for the web I can only export individual slices and not the whole image, which negates the idea. So I resort to making a copy of the image before exporting and exporting that flat image. Is there a way to export for the web an entire image that contains slices? And additionally is there a more practical way to do this? edit I have images of different sizes (on the same Photoshop canvas) and of varying uses, which means that sometimes I'll need to dedicate a whole line to a sprite or sometimes I'll have to keep track of white space that needs to be preserved around an icon. Guides don't allow me to keep a clear view of the area dedicated to a specific sprite. But an image will show that better than words: With guides With slices So working with slices makes it easier to visualize my sprites but then it is impossible to export the whole image. Is there any workaround in Photoshop?
I'm building an app in a hurry, and we're starting the process in InDesign. I won't go into the crazy technicalities that led to this need, but I need to flow text over two pages as if they were the same page. Here's a screenshot of what I mean: Obviously I can do this just by stretching a text frame across the two pages - but when I try to flow text through the pages on a grander scale using a master page with that text box, the pre-existing margins interfere and act as unwanted text boxes. I can't find a way to remove them, or make them stretch across two pages in the same way the text frame can. Has anyone got a solution, or is this going to be an arduous case of stretching a frame across every single spread in the document? Any advice appreciated. Thanks!
I created a series of semi-circle paths in Illustrator and linked them together using the Threaded Text function. Using the Type on a Path options, I was able to flip the direction of the text to the order I'd like. But I would like to flip the order of the path, all together. Right now, the type begins at the outside of the circle and works its way inwards. I want the type to start on the inside of the circle and work its way outwards. How would I accomplish this? Here's what my path looks like: Again, I want the type to start at the top of the rings, not at the bottom. Thanks!
I have been provided an .ai file containing icons for a website project (hundreds of the things). The file consists of all the icons on a single layer each, filling the space of a single artboard for the entire project (see below). I need to arrange all of these icons into a sprite formation whereby each icon has 6 different color variations. So if there are 100 icons, the sprite image would be 100px x 6px artboard sizes big. From there, I can resize the entire artboard if the client ever needs the sprites at a different size. The only way I can currently think of doing it is displaying each layer one by one, save it as a web image (transparent .png), import into Photoshop and manually arrange into the sprite layout (using color overlay for the different colors). However, this is going to take hours. There must be a more automated way to achieve this since every icon is the exact same size (if you include the artboard behind it). Many thanks for your help.
Is there a way to force photshop to change its display mode ? I work with psd files that sometimes get very large(who doesn't) and at times I run out of resources(memory, processing power) on my device. It takes ages just to nudge a group sometimes that is why I am looking for a display performance reduction to free up resources. Is there a way to reduce the quality of the preview simmilar to Adobe Illustrator (View > Outline)
Does anyone have an idea of how to do this: Corel Draw Clone Tool YouTube Demo in Inkscape? I'm very familiar with Corel Draw and Adobe Creative Suite, but at my new job they are cheap and I'm stuck with Inkscape. I've been trying to figure it out for a while now and can't find any documentation on a tool similar to this.
I have a file in Photoshop CS5 that has a photo on a layer that is cropped with a clipping mask (just a black rectangle). In Photoshop the image appears correctly but when I save as a PDF and open that in Adobe Reader or Apple Preview it shows a thin border around the image. I've tried saving it as PDF 1.7 and X-4:2008 instead of the default versions but that didn't affect it. How do I prevent an outline around my image when I export to PDF?
I m not very good with photoshop but I m trying to create a very simple shape with line tool, but cannot do it. I m using line tool to draw this and line tool works perfect when I draw lines vertically or horizontally, however when I try to draw something in some other direction it becomes blurry. And this is my photoshop settings. I have checked and unchecked Anti-alias but nothing works How do draw smooth line? Any Help Thanks.
I'm trying to export rendered object from Cinema 4D into Adobe Illustrator. This is what I see in my render view of Cinema 4D: This is what I see when opening exported .ai file in AI: As you see object arrangement on the right side is totally screwed up. I've tried to turn off Layers option during export. This text is created using Extrude NURBS if that makes any difference. How to fix it?
I want to create 3D text with Adobe Illustrator which have camera depth of field. Simple 3D bevel/extrude effect gives me this: Now I want to add some camera lense perspective effect, but not sure how to do this... Update: Example is 3D text
My company is in a small town and there are not any graphic designers but we have enough business in the town and the surrounding area to support us. But because of the small town nature some business owners do not know all the laws. And since I am starting this from a career in architecture I am not quite clear on copyrights. So here is my problem. I created a sign that has an oval with scrolls and flowers in different colors on a field of turquoise. The client did not want to spend the money on a logo design so I said that I will just retain the rights so that she would have to come to me for the approval to use the logo on anything else. So anyway everything seems to be fine, I do her business cards and now all of a sudden I see a sign at the street. I quoted her on this job figuring in using the logo. Apparently this company did for much less and you can tell by the quality. But here is my problem. She had a jpeg that I allowed her to have so she could create her own fliers and I was ok with that since it would not have made me much if any money. Well I am looking at the sign that the other person did and all that was done is they made a longer oval since this sign is more rectangle and used a different font. And put this over the design that I did. To me this is copyright infringement since the client did not want to buy all the rights. But who do I address? The client or the person that did the sign?
My .psd file has a resolution of 6m x 3m @ 150 DPI. This makes it 35433px x 5906px in size. Photoshop CS6 saves the file as .tiff or .psb only. When I first import into Illustrator I get an error that the file is not readable but I have tried many options. Last one is not supported by AI. So I'm puzzled... is there a way to link large images into Illustrator?
Here is my dilemma. For a while now I have had some ideas kicking around in the back of my mind for a web cartoon. I would like to try to put the idea into reality, but I run into one tiny little problem. I can't draw. At all. I've tried, I took classes - at the end I managed a decent stick figure. It's pathetic. Surely in the age of technology there must be a program out there that can help. I know there are websites that will give you access to their image libraries and such to create cartoons with but they also put wording in their terms of service that make anything you create using their service, theirs. Not what I want. The program doesn't have to be point and click simple, I can learn a complex program - just don't make me draw by hand!
I'm trying to create a custom shape overlay in the navigation bar similar to the example below. I'm struggling with trying to create the radius around the bottom edges. I'm not too great with the pen tool, I find it hard to create the 'bend' of the shape. What is the best way to create this shape?
I have this graphics in Illustrator. I would like to remove the portions of the globe outside the outlined path and I want the remaining earth and the space inside the path as two separate regions. Can this be done?
I am trying to fix some issues I have with Photoshop as a web developer creating graphics for web. I'm using Photoshop CC/14 and have previously used Fireworks. I have a "button" layer on top of a lot of background layers. The button has a feathered border. How do I easily export the graphics for this button without all the background layers and instead a transparent background? I could hide all the background layers and then create a layer slice which then is easy to export. But hiding all the background layers every time I need to do that seems stupid. What's the smart and brilliant way to do this I have overlooked? alternatively just explain how you normally do it?
The title pretty much says it all. Looking for pros/cons, and situations where it should / shouldn't be used.
I clipped a bunch of lines into the shape of a triangle, using the clip function in Inkscape. I now want to change the color of the remaining triangle which is composed of lines. I have tried all sorts, but nothing works. How can I do this? I want to change the color of the entire group/ clipped image. The underlying lines are grouped together if that makes any difference. I see talk about the clip process being non-destructive - I don't really mind if it is and that helps this process. Cheers David
Pressing Ctrl+f in the layer window shows a popup in the same window. It looks like a search dialog but it doesn't work. Does anyone know how to search for layers by name in inkscape ?
This is really close to what Photoshop edit > transform > warp does but in there you have four lines diving whole thing in section which messes up the whole thing... I want to be able to do transform like below, very much needed! But not able to do it in Photoshop. What i want to do is this -> When i click lets say a photo, a box with 4 corners appears and each corner has handles coming out of it at its right and left as i move those it curves the section between the two points. As you can see this is exactly how vector/shape box would act: four corners with handles you can adjust to shape the line adjacent to it on either side. I would be able to do this with warp option if there was a way to not have 9 sub sections, is there a way to adjust grids in warp tool. So i can have only one section that way changing handles would have effect on whole picture and not on just sections near to it.
More than occasionally if I am tasked with creating a website from scratch, it seems doable right up until I begin working on it. Then it feels like a mountain of work that is bigger than I can measure. As a designer, I am often left with parts that are not graphic design, such as: Preparing designs for coding Coding them Figuring out what the business needs: who are the customers, what's the industry standard, what's the competition doing, what are its main strong points What is doable Architecture of site for best speed, SEO, maintenance, and expansion Just the notion that I'll be coding the entire project brings my creativity from level 500 to 20. On top of these, time constraints make it clear that it's not in fact a feasible project. I feel like a one man army all the time. What are your strategies for handling tasks that are not only about where to put content and how to style, present, and share content, but to also determine what the content should be? I am interested in your workflow when you go about developing a website from the ground up and any advice ranging from research to execution.
I draw by hand (fashion drawings), scan the drawing, import it in Illustrator. Then I use Image Tracing and Live Paint to colour my drawings. How can I easily draw shadows on the clothes and the skin? You will find an example below. I "Live Painted" the zones and I would like now to add shadows (on the clothes and on the skin) as if I would have a source of light coming from upper right. Thank you for reading. Edit after answer: I chose to add additional shapes (strokes) as follow:
I'm creating a logo where I have applied a stamp effect to the text and boundary. How can I make the stamp effect become permanent without needing to have the 'art' underneath masked by the opacity mask? Is it even necessary? I'm concerned that people opening the file in the future could easily change the logo, accidentally or on purpose.
I use the term from time to time and i just cant get my head around it why is it called branding 'collateral' - in my mind collateral is something you put up as a security, usually in conjunction to a loan ect. Is there something ive missed here ?
I have designed a web page that looks like this: I'm not a designer, and neither is my boss but he has asked me to design and code a web page. I'm happy with the header (and it's good inspiration :D), but my boss has forced me to place this ugly backbone graphic next to the the navigation buttons, and I have to have it. So I did it, I tried to tell him that people don't love it and it's ugly navigation - but he says it has to be like that! My problem is that I haven't any idea how to style the heading/content title to be aesthetically pleasing and make it stand out and draw attention. I'm thinking maybe a cartoon bubble will be good? Maybe just an arrow? What would be good and easy for a beginner to create? Additionally, I'm trying to figure out what font and style will make the text look good and easy to read? My main question is, what effect and image could I use for the heading background, and how can I style it to stand out better? I'm thinking maybe place it in it's own container with a border around it, and style the text with an inset shadow? Maybe something like: or Please could you suggest ways for me to make the heading stand out better and make the text more readable.
In previous Photoshop versions, we were able to move freely anchor points in the document but in Photoshop CC, by default, anchor points follow the pixel grid. I found how to disable it (visually) but the magnetism is always present. So my question is: How to disable pixel grid magnetism? Edit: magnetism options are all disabled
This is a redesign of my website: As you can see, its largely a work in progress; I'm trying to do a flat user interface design. I can tell you now that I am in no way a designer or UI/UX expert. I'm a developer; traditionally useless at design, but giving it my best shot. You can see on the main content that there are three links, under the title 'Latest blog posts'; I have made them the same shade of red as my header, but I'm not sure that it looks right, is it OK? Should it be more contrasting? Should it be the standard blue? How can I make it obvious that they are click-able links? All suggestions are welcome.
i am working with an image in Photoshop and applied grid but now I want to save that image with the grid. Is there any procedure to save images with a grid?
I got a simlar problem as this one. How do I do this if I'm using a image as the background? After I tracing and expanding the image I'll use the way described above, the one with "This is text". This doesn't work. I mean it does kind of work put the text is diveded into many little pieces. Very hard to work with. It there any other way while doing this with an image as the background?
I'm designing a color scheme for a web application with a data dashboard. I want the graphs and data visualizations to have a default color palette with distinct colors that maximize the ease of seeing relationships in the data. The app will display a very wide variety of data sets, many of which will require a large number of colors. I'd like to pick at least 50 default colors. Is there any application like Kuler where you can see color swatches next to each other and you can also pick a lot of different colors? Kuler limits you to 5.
I have a fairly dated site that uses Trebuchet MS font in Latin and Cyrillic scripts. If I understand correctly, once (a decade ago) this font was available on like 95-99% of computers used for web browsing and it was ok to use it - nowadays myriads of devices (namely, Android, iOS, Linux-based devices) don't have it. In theory, it could be downloaded from Microsoft website and installed on per-computer basis, but it's not possible to redistribute it, i.e. make a web font from it. I want to update that site and use a downloadable web font - preferably a free one. Can anyone suggest a good alternative to Trebuchet MS?
I need to set up аn empty space around inline icon in Indesign. Something like margins in HTML. Their sizes will not depend on an icon size. Also I think of negative margins. Also, I can't move inline (anchored) object outside upper boundary of textframe without baseline shift. Solutions? Here is the problem: Still no luck! It seems to me I have explored everything both in Text Wrap panel and in Anchored Object Options menu.
we are having problems trying to come up with a graph that would show the current and the estimated value, while maintaining the simplicity of the graph and still making it clear at first sight what is estimated and what is current. Here are some graph types we tried before(don't mind the changing graphic style, we've settled on the flat, boxy style for now), from newest to oldest. I kind of like the newest the best, the problem is when estimated becomes bigger than current, it'd have to switch colors and it could be confusing. The second is not bad either, but having them under each other adds to complexity. What's worth noting is that the hero of the graph should be the estimated part, current got a graph of its own up above and it's here just for the context, so you can see the difference between current and estimated.. Which one do you think is the best, or do you have any other idea, perhaps something completely different(like only showing the difference or something), how to process this?
I need to image trace some images that are in a custom pattern I made so that I can recolor the pattern. The images were placed there and linked in a previous Illustrator session. When I'm in the pattern editing view and I select the image, ImageTrace itself is not greyed out in the Object menu, but all of the options beneath it are. How can I get Illustrator to let me turn these images into vectors?
I have made a template in Illustrator CS5 as an .ait file. Now I am wondering if it is possible to couple a certain workspace (Drawing, Painting, Like Freehand, etc.) to this template such that that workspace is used when the template is opened.
I received this beautiful email from Skillshare and thought that their white space was done well. Below is the bottom of that email which has the copy. The top has an image, part of which is encased in this grey box of which the screen shot shows. How can this be mathematically calculated, or could it just be trial and error?
I've tried using http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/ but to no avail. Does anyone know what font the text "Wholesome & Earth-Friendly" is? This is from the Farmer's Market Volusion Template (http://farmersmarket-demo.volusion.com/).
When watching a GIF, the image seems to be crisp, as the animation is moving along quite quickly. If you were to analyze the GIF frame by frame, you'd notice that each image is rather blurry. I'm wondering if it is possible to combine frames near to each other using some kind of filtering in Photoshop to produce one clear still image?
This has to be a silly question but I cannot see how, in Photoshop CS5, to draw a red bordered ellipse with a transparent fill over a picture. I often find myself doing this to highlight an area of a screenshot when posting an image to StackOverflow or sending an email to IT support. In Adobe Fireworks it is pretty easy: Select the ellipse tool Set the fill to transparent Set the pen to red Draw the ellipse It is straightforward following the same steps in Microsoft Paint. But in Adobe Photoshop the ellipse tool seems to only have one colour I could draw the solid red ellipse and then draw another slightly smaller ellipse to mask out the central region but that seems too long-winded for what must be a commonplace simple task. What is the speedy lightweight way to call out an area of a picture by plonking a solid bordered ellipse with a transparent fill on it in Photoshop?
What standards do we need to follow while testing aesthetic conditions of a program? Is there any particular set of rules/standards to follow? That is, if we are writing test cases for a program, what do we need to keep in mind for testing? This is difficult because everyone has their own aesthetic sense.
I've put some nice effects on a layer in Photoshop, and the effect is repeated across several layers. Now, I have to cut it up for the web, and I want to be efficient with how I display the effect. For example, I had an outer glow for a quiz game I had to use for a bunch of images, and could be switched on/off. So instead of exporting each image with/without, I can just export it separately and use it/not on each image. How do you separate the layer from its effects, so you can export only the effects?
I am redesigning a dental blog. So the focus is obviously content, they can read related news, download technical documents, watch videos, etc. So I wanted the design to be subtle. But the header I immediately wanted to grab their attention. Using Yellow to draw attention to the main selling point about the main product. But it almost looks like there is too much attention there with that yellow and a little red. How can I calculate how much color contrast would be ideal? And should I perhaps put some dark background behind the header that expands full width?
Even if I pick objects like two different kind of trees, when I am ready to paint them on the landscape it does not paint them, instead it paints the landscape as long as I press the brush. I tried picking the objects but still the problem remains. The final result is painting the landscape with trees.
I know there are tutorials that make able to bend a line or either create a new line, that is circled, but I really have a specific line, and I need to have it bend in half circle. I found similiar effect on a game, and I was wondering if there was possibility to replicate it on GIMP.
I have a black turtle tank (black wood) and I want to simulate what it would look like if we painted the wood a different color. Original photo below My attempt at doing it below Any tips on how to do this?
I'm looking for some method for automating the localization process for an InDesign document. Basically, I want to be able to take the contents of the file, translate it into a few other languages (using machine translation) then rebuild the document that many times with all the formatting maintained. The document is already using things like threaded master frames anchored objects to keep the graphics in-line with the text, so the length changing shouldn't be an issue. I'm not sure how to maintain the paragraph and character styles though.
We have had a few questions in regards to design trends and how to break out of bad design work habits but I was curious to know if there is a terminology or process for the design environment such as: Paint has been considered to provide a mood. The right odor or scent can relax the body. Lighting How can one create a great mood work environment for designers?
I need to open 30 images in a single file as multiple layers. I went to File > open > select 30 images > open and it was opening 30 files in different windows. I had to use the Drag And Drop method for 30 files to make all the images appear in one file with multiple layers. So my question is there any way to open multiple images in in single Photoshop file as Layers?
I'm trying to create a typographic logo using Adobe Illustrator, I'm trying to make a scribble effect and I know how to do it, no problem of doing that, it's very easy. My problem is that the scribble effect becomes so dense that it looks more like plain text with 100% fill. Please can you help of best practice of how to do a scribble in white color, so it appears nice and professional? if you need an example I'm trying to do something like this logo:
I am having some difficulties trying to delete the space where I created a simple '+' icon. Here are some images for reference. I hope this explains what I am trying to accomplish. Sorry for not using technical terms, I do not know them! Thanks!
I have a client who wants a design for a web app. He told me that he would like "a large sidebar menu on the left" and gave MailChimp's new design as an example. We both agreed that what the client wanted was a responsive design and a similar look and feel of MailChimp. The client's current site is using bootstrap and is under the 960px grid. I've made designs to fit for 960px grid before, but this is my first time adding a vertical menu. How would I go about this? I'm not sure if I should be incorporating the menu width to the 960px width. For example, if the menu is 200px wide, should I use the 760px as the main content div? Or should I be designing the main content div as 960px and create the menu outside of the 960px width? And if you are in a teaching mood, I would love a quick analysis of how MailChimp did their layout. Like, structurally, how it is set up.
I work at a retail print shop and use photoshop often to print documents. I've noticed ever since we upgraded to CS6, PS will save the print settings between unrelated files. Eg: I set the print settings to print 30 copies from a certain tray in our printer and grayscale. I quit the program. Then the next time I open a completely different customer file, hit print, the same settings (number of copies and all) are still set to print that document. This seems like a good idea, but it makes for a lot of wasted paper when we are expecting to hit print and it go to the default settings. I'm using a Windows 7 installed PC, if that makes any difference.
I'm a newbie with computer graphics and I'd like to learn what "light baking" means. I've heard of this term but never understood it completely. Can someone explain this to me in plain English (possibly with some images)?
I am designing UI for an application which is going to be available for both Android and iPhone. While for android, slicing/chopping up the UI elements is pretty much simple and straight forward, we have to resize the UI elements for ldpi, mdpi, hdpi and xhdpi. i.e., 36X36, 42X42, 72X72 and 96X96 respectively. However, am not sure about resizing the UI elements for iPhone. I read somewhere that we have to resize the UI elements in @x and @2x sizes and also I've read we need to change the ppi of the UI elements as well, like 163ppi and 326ppi. So, I am confused between: 1) By resizing image.png @x and @2x 2) By changing the image.png's 163ppi and 326ppi versions. Which one is the appropriate way?
I've created a piece of 3D terrain and converted it to Wavefront OBJ. It is 64 x 24 x 64 units in size. Is there a quick way to split the terrain mesh into 8 x 24 x 8 sections? I don't want to render them all at one time. Thanks!!
I've searched and found advice to use a GIMP layers dialogue in e.g. How do you get transparent colour on Gimp? However, in my version of GIMP (2.6.8 for Mac), Layers doesn't seem to be set up to display a dialogue. I've seen it in previous versions but hunted and not found anything under the Layers menu that will bring up the Layers dialogue. How, in the present version of GIMP, can I set the opacity image-wide to 30% or 70%?
Is there a list of ALL commercially available fonts? Ideally, this list indexed by font name, foundry, font CDN (i.e., Typekit or Google Fonts) and type of license. With >5K fonts now in circulation, it's gotten very difficult to know what's expected from the use of a given font.
by which softwares this picture was created? any guess by which software this water is drawn?
I have several JPG files (satellite images) that I need to have curves or levels (not auto!) added to them using shell scripting (cronjobs). Does anyone know of any tool for that? Maybe GIMP?
I was watching BBC Click today, and they showed this website where there was a picture that, when zoomed in, it does not get hazy. You actually zoom straight into another picture, and this just goes on and on. It is like a sort of infinite zooming. Could anyone tell me the name of this and even a place on the net where i can see this.
I really like the look of this screenshot on Dribbble: And I'd like to employ a similar navigation for both desktop and mobile devices. I’m looking for a similar UI set – large (X) to close out a pop up box, for example –. Is this a current trend or is it custom? In the same project I really like the glassy/blurred out backgrounds that they are using for the mockups. My application is different, but the look and feel would apply to my project. Is there a certain search term that I could use for that background style and super-thin icon UI?
I recently had to convert some PDF files to SVG, and did this by opening the PDF in Illustrator, and saving out to SVG. The issue was that when Illustrator opened the pdf, many (but not all) text objects would be broken up into different text objects. For instance, the word "policy" wouldn't be one text object, but rather several text objects, "po", "l", "icy". There didn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to it. How can I prevent this from happening?
When you make a colour partly transparent, it lightens (assuming it's on a white background), naturally. I would like to counter this behaviour by "darkening" a colour, so that when I make it transparent, when on a white background, the end result is the same as the original colour. Basically, I would like to compensate the effect of transparency. And I have no idea of how I would do that. I've tried playing with some numbers in the colour's parameters, but I haven't been able to find what I should do. This might be hard to understand in words alone, so I've made a visual explanation of what I would like to achieve. What I want to achieve is the highest square. Oh, before a clever one tells me to simply do what I did on that image, of course the example was faked by cutting a piece of transparent orange to put over the area where the "stick" overlaps with a solid-coloured square. Of course, that solution can't be applied to more irregular or changing shapes, and won't handle the white areas of a picture. In case it's important, what I'm trying to make with this is a web design in Adobe Illustrator, which would of course eventually end up being made out of HTML and CSS.
I have a symbol which is clipped. When I place the symbol into document, I can't adjust the size of clipped object. In fact transform shows me unclipped bounding box. Above on the left side screenshot you see the example of such symbol. However, if I break the link to symbol(right side screenshot), then bounding box is clipped to object and I can easily set new size. How can I represent my symbol clipped without breaking link?
What is the best way to convert a file from freehand to Illustrator CS6? I tried different methods: Illustrator 7: Go to an old computer open the freehand file and export as Illustrator 7. Then go to the new computer open Illustrator CS6 and open the Illustrator 7 file. It works but things are moved and I need hours to put everything in order. Illustrator CS4 or Illustrator CS5: Go to the old computer, open Illustrator CS4 or CS5. Go to file > open and go to the Freehand file. I can open the Freehand but everything are moved. EPS: Go to the old computer open the freehand file and export as .eps. Everything is in place but the colors change. Even when the colors are in the same Pantone number, the perception in the screen is really different. I do not understand why? PDF: Go to the old computer open the freehand file and export as .pdf. Then open the .pdf with Illustrator CS6. Everything is in place the colors in the screen are the same but I loose the information of the number of Pantone of each color. I need hours to restore-update old files. Do you know any better method or a way to solve the problems of the commented methods?
I'm searching for some techniques that offer similarities to the new Apple blurred gradient backgrounds. One of my clients is requesting a similar look to the new iOS, while I have some blurry photo graphic backgrounds they failed to capture the subtleties of the new OS. The blending tool can create some very stylized gradients, however my lack of talent/expertise makes the majority of my attempts look messy. Any links fellow creators? iOS 7 Color Stack

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