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I am following a tutorial in which the author has asked to draw a 70px x 70px circle using the ellipse tool, but i can't figure out how can I draw a circle with exact dimensions in Photoshop.
When I apply a gradient to a shape layer, the gradient is always applied as a rectangle. e.g. The red rectangle implies the edges of the gradient. What I'm after is for the gradient to be applied in a way that uses the shape layer for the edges... so the same value will be applied evenly to the left side of the shape and then spread evenly to the right. Is this possible? Thanks
Using Photoshop, I can edit the image by using the lasso tool and warp tool, but Photoshop is not open source, I need an open source software to edit the image by using the same tools. I tried GIMP but there is no warp tool in that. Can you please suggest some open source software with lasso and warp tool?
I'm a graphic designer and front-end web developer. I was recently approached to design and build a simple brochure website for a language school to showcase their courses. The school is currently having a custom piece of software developed to aid students during the learning process. The client is now talking about using the same design style for their software. This means I'll be designing an additional UI (fields, buttons etc). Would you advise I charge an annual license fee for the design + my time for the actual design work? The language school will rely on the software for each module. I'm used to designing simple portfolio websites, so your advice would be greatly appreciated before I provide a quote. Thanks :)
Hi my client has given me a load of images for the site I'm building for him, they are going in a Javascript Image Nivo Slider Banner at the top, the size of the banner is 720px x 200px but the images aren't. I can crop the images, but I wonder if there is a way to resize them and change the proportion without destroying the quality, or due to the nature of how pixels work is this not possible? I would like to be able to turn them into wide angle images and work from there. I have Photoshop CS6 Ext.
I've used a clipping mask to obtain the top ribbon, but I was wondering how I could get the same effect with the bottom ribbon, where the ribbon is filled in with the horizontal lines. Thanks in advance, Michael
How can I achieve this with Fireworks? Or what is the exact name of this technique, so I can Google it?
I have an old Freehand file and it has a rectangle with the Pantone 187 CVC. I use 2 different ways to update with multiple versions of Illustrator: I export the Freehand file as an .eps file and open it with Illustrator CS6. I select the rectangle, I go to the swatches panel and effectively see it is 187 CVC. I double click the icon of the Pantone color and it gives me spot color C:0; M:90,98; Y:72,16; K:23,53. I export the Freehand file as an Illustrator 7 file. I open the Illustrator 7 file with Illustrator CS6. I select the rectangle, I go to the swatches panel and it is a Pantone 187 CVC but it has a very different aspect compared to the other file from the original .eps. So I double click the icon in the swatches panel and it gives me spot color: C:27,11; M:100; Y:81,03; K:27,24 (If I go to an Illustrator CS4 or CS5 and I open the Freehand It gives me the same color situations). How is it possible that the same Pantone in the same versions of Illustrator (CS6) gives different CMYK values and clear screen differences? What process of conversion can I trust?
Is there a way to set up Illustrator/Photoshop/InDesign CS5 with default file information? What I want to do is set it so that I am the author of all of my work by default without having to change it in the "file information" panel each time. Thanks in advance. Eoin
Good evening, I have a question about the exportation of a file made in Indesign that I need to print. I hope you can help me. I have to precise that short time ago I used Freehand for projects as catalogs with many pages. In that case, to export a file that I had to print I had to transform necessarily every image present in the file in TIF at 300dpi and I had to adjust the measure of every single picture (percentage of resizing). My question is: Is this the process that I have to adopt also when I work with Indesign? Moreover, If I want to design a catalog or a project similar to a magazine, is it right to realize it with pages placed side by side? If it is the right way, is it necessary to make the edging of 3mm also in the borders of bookbinding? Otherwise, is it an option that is made automatically during the exportation in pdf? I hope that I have exposed properly my doubts. Sorry for my poor English… Thank you very much for your kind help! Serena
I'm doing some design work for a company. I did a letterhead for them a while ago, and now I'm designing some forms that they will be providing to clientele to fill out. These are forms that will be printed and handed out in person to prospective clients to be filled out and returned on the spot. Should these forms that I am designing be on the letterhead? Or is the letterhead pretty much for just letters. Is there some kind of "standard practice" for what a letterhead should be used for? I ask because the letterhead takes up a bit of the page space, and I'll have to be economical with the form if I intend to put it on the letterhead.
I guess this is a really simple quest but I couldn't find the answer in Google. I make a rectangular selection, right click, then choose "Make Work Path". so I have a rectangular path Then click T icon (for text), type something in the path. It wraps the text nicely. Also adding dashes as word-breaks etc. so I have text inside the path. But one problem is, I want to modify the path (say, make it wider but shorter). I can select the path and transform it, but the text remains the same. How can I transform the path, and also the text in it, so that the text wraps to the new path accordingly ? What I currently do is, create the new path, type the text again. Which can cost a lot of time for so many small changes. So I really want to find a way to change the path, that is wrapping the text, without changing the text itself. Thanks for any help !
I have a shape layer that is a circle, and I want to add a shape layer to the center of it, but for that shape to be transparent and you can see through both layers. How can I do this?
I am wondering which is the symbol used to denote line breaks in Microsoft Word. It can be visualized with the following steps: In MS Word, open empty document. Press SHIFT + ENTER to insert a line break. Press CTRL + SHIFT + 8 to show the formatting symbols in the editor. Here is a picture of the symbol: The closest I can find in the Unicode tables is the Carriage return symbol (↵), but it doesn't look the same in any of the fonts installed on my machine.
One of my colleague had created a signature for the company using Adobe Illustrator. Now the head of our company wants clickable links to be present in the signature so that one should be able to click on the links and forwarded to the desired destination like email id, website, telephone, etc. The signature presently created is an pdf and jpeg format. How can we add clickable links to the signature?
I have no Photoshop experience. I am a developer and I am trying to create an outline of a circle, but it always looks pixelated. I have attached my attempt: Can someone please help or point me to a good tutorial? It's driving me crazy, the example was me doing it with canvas to take a screenshot and then using the wand to cut it out. How can I create one with just Photoshop? Thanks.
Is there any analogue of CSS rule white-space: nowrap in Adobe Indesign? I know that happens because in Indesign the text can be placed in any arbitrary shape, not only rectangular as it goes in HTML. Typesetting engine is looking for a string that have enough width to fit a word. And if this shape can't fit big word then such a word will be shifted to next text frame, even if a frame does not exist. The question is how to disable such behavior?
http://www.paladinstudios.com/wp-content/themes/paladin/images/arthur.png Sub Question 1:- Can I create this in GIMP? Sub Question 2:- Please also list down tools which can be used to create 3D characters like this and then I can take snaps of the character from different angles, like profile view, back view, top down view and at any custom angle.
When we slice an image in Photoshop for an emailer and save out as slices with links how do you avoid a shift in the slices on the emailer once it has sent. For example; I want to create links to youtube video's on a design with a coloured background. When I do this all the elements shift and create horrible white spaces as well as cut up the text. How do I stop this from happening?
In PS CS6, I am trying to create an action to copy a text layer from one document to another document to sit in the same location. Document size are same each other. I couldn't find a way how to insert that copy command into the action. Any advice would be appreciated.
I work for a medical journal, and we use InDesign C5. I am wondering if there is a way to "teach" InDesign how to correctly hyphenate medical jargon at the end of a paragraph line. Obviously, our journal prints a lot of unusual words, such as ischemia, translateral, psuedomeningioma, and a host of other neurosurgical terms which I can't spell, ha ha. InDesign sometimes hyphenates these words incorrectly at the end of a paragraph line; for example, we often see translateral broken as tran-slateral, instead of trans-lateral. It can be fixed manually, but this is a time suck and sometimes we miss them. Is there a way to get InDesign to break these words correctly? Would adding a medical dictionary solve the problem? We are English US, btw.
I am working with a freelancer to produce some 3D models of our products. He has been sending me renderings which for the most part is fine, but I'd now like to receive a model that I can rotate around in a scene or more accurately, rotate the camera around. I don't have nor am I willing to purchase a 3D max license. I'm looking for a free 3D viewer - no editing capabilities needed. I just need to orbit the camera. The CAD world as the STP format and it's plethora of free viewers available. I looked into 3D Max to STP and it doesn't sound like a promising option due to the nature of the model construction methods. What would you suggest I use to accomplish my goal? I did some googling but it's all a little over my head. I'm hoping you can point me in the right direction.
I've scanned in some maps, and I'm regularly adding little touches here and there to each map in Photoshop. Each map has a few Ps layers and is not vector. For all the annotations, I'm using Illustrator, because it's better for the job with its typography tools. In Ps, I can drag some graphics/layers in from Ai and it becomes a single 'vector smart object' so whenever I want to edit that graphic, it opens in Ai and updates in Ps when I save. How do I have the equivalent of this in Illustrator? I have a multilayered graphic which I want to keep opening and editing in Ps but still keep at the exact same size and position in the Ai document (to keep the annotations accurate)?
So I have the following image: I created three spheres, placed them in a cloner and applied the twist deformer. I then repeated this for the opposite side. Essentially the helix structure in the middle is made of two chains. The repeating unit in my cloner is the three spheres to the left of the helix. The problem is when I apply the twist deformer it distorts my spheres to the point they are not spheres any more. How I can apply the twist deformer on my cloner but keep the shape of my spheres.
I am a newbie to Designing. I have followed this tutorial, but I want to modify the output, I don't want so many circles. I want less number of circles placed randomly and also the sizes should be different. How can I do this in Photoshop?
I have 20 multiple images in different layers withon a Photoshop file. I want to apply one clipping mask for all the layers. I grouped all layers and tried but the clipping mask option is disabled. How can I apply one clipping mask to multiple layers?
How can I create a wood text effect such as this logo using Photoshop CS6?
I've recently made a new website and I'm using a template. See this image (link): The file extention is .php. Can anyone explain this? NOTE: When an image is posted here, stackexchange creates it's own location to store it. If you're right clicking and saving the pic in the question, you'll get a .jpg. But, right click on the picture here. Here are screenshots of what happens when I try to save it:
How to create a shadow like this one? Can anybody help me creating a shadow like shown under menu of the image? I'm using Photoshop and is aware of tools but don't know the technique to make it? Thanks
I have multiple objects that I would like to all have the same color. That way, when I change the color of the 'master' object, all the rest would also change. I am sure this is straightforward, but I am struggling to find the answer.
Situation: I have two or more objects, I want to align one to the other (say top border). Problem: Sometimes the align feature aligns the "wrong" object, that is to say, I want it to align object B to object A, yet it aligns object A to object B instead. I've been baffled by this for a while now, there seems to be no apparent logic on how to select which one is the leading object. I select them in the layers panel using CTRL, but no matter what I select first, it always aligns by the same logic.
Lets say i create a new document of 800px x 800px and I take the cursor on a particular point in the document. How would I know which pixel this cursor is at this moment?
I need to make (actually re-creating) a diagram for a repeating process consisting of 5 steps. Here's how it might look with two arrows: I need to do basically the same thing with 5 arrows, different colors, and the arrowheads not sticking out... essentially a donut shape. The arrows also contain text, but that's not a big deal since I can flatten each arrow if the solution involves handling them as separate objects. I've already tried making the arrows in a straight line and making an art brush, but AI gives me an error saying "The selected artwork contains an element that cannot be made into an art brush." ??? I removed the text just to make sure that wasn't it, but the error still happened. I also tried making a donut from 2 circles, making compound path, and using the knife to divide into sections... made a nightmare mess out of that. It's nearly impossible to cut a straight line that isn't exactly horizontal, perpendicular, or the exact in between of those. It looks so simple! Am I just being obtuse? :p
I have scanned a pen and ink drawing and I'm trying get rid of the variations in ink color. The black ink appears as black and different shades of grey, the blue as different shades of blue etc. How do I turn each field of ink into a single solid color?
I've been interested in creating Geometric Polygonal art illustrations, i.e. making polygons and shapes with different color shading represent a face, or an object, see this set of examples. How are they achieved? Is there some script for Illustrator which alters the image adding the shapes according to the colors or shades? How would I transform a normal image of Marilyn Monroe for example, to a polygonal illustration of her?
when applying inner stroke from layer style panel if you reduce stroke opacity it instead of revealing the layer its on as it becomes transparent it actually hides the layer. What can i do to not hide they layer just blend with when i reduce the opacity of stroke.
I need to edit a picture and convert all single pixels mantaining hue and saturation but changing brightness to 50. Is there anyone who knows how to achieve this result on Photoshop or with any other tool? Thanks in advance.
I created an object style to apply to pasted images in my document. The object style has a 6 point white stroke. I then applied this object style to two images and the size of the stroke is visually different. I'm not resizing the images after applying the stroke. This is the result of applying the style after sizing the images. This is a visual representation of my problem: How can the same weight stroke be a different size?
I have an animated gif with transparent background, and I want to add a background image to all layers: How can I achieve it without adding it to every layer individually?
Sorry if this has been done before. I just got Creative Cloud, have worked on older versions of Photoshop before. Every time I try to do anything vector based in Ps CC, be it Text, Pen Tool or creating simple Shapes, Ps shows them pixellated and as if they were rasterised whilst showing it as Shape layer, with option to rasterise still selectable. With type, anti-aliasing is on. Am running Illustrator too and there is no problem with my screen representing vector based shapes crisp and clear. When I print text from Ps, it comes out pixellated. When I save it out as e.g. jpg, it is blurry and pixellated. Help please! Is there something in Ps like the Pixel Preview Setting in Illustrator that I may have switched on accidentally without knowing?
I create designs and then export to PDF and give them to the printers, but what I would like to do is to put our company logo on there, but not in the printable area. I know I can put the file name etc around it but is there a way to put a logo too? If not, is there a way to put my company name/author name without changing the file name? Regards, Eoin
I have a simple question. I was reading this tutorial. And I couldn't get the effect as expected. After some experiments I found that when I merge two shapes and apply stroke only its outline gets a stroke. For example I draw 2 rectangles and merged them. This is what I got: I would like to have stroke also inside the shape. How to do this? EDIT: This is what I got doing above tutorial What is expected: My path options:
Per a similar question asked, Can I Put my logo on an outputted PDF?, I was familiar with the Acrobat process to create watermarks. However, I was curious if you created a non-printable layer within InDesign (and we have a question on creating non-printable layers in InDesign, How do I make non-printable template instructions in InDesign?) will that non printable layer still export to a .pdf file and will the .pdf file in Acrobat preserve the non-printable layer? I find it hard to test this based on the printer settings but I dont want to test this on a plate maker. On an Epson printer it appears to work but I am curious to know if anyone has experienced this when plate making or during a burn for a screen.
Apologies if this has been asked already specifically, I couldn't find it if it has. My question, is in Illustrator is there a way/option/trick to for example select multiple blocks of Text and make them evenly spaced Horizontally within the area of the artboard? I know with a Path you can split it into a Grid, but what about something like Text elements? Thanks for any insight.
I have an PNG image like this with a transparent background: How can I change the image color to white, and keep the transparent background in GIMP? The desired result is a white silhouette on a transparent background.
For my blog, I would like to create something like this logo: However, where the text on the image above is white, I would like to have a transparent hole instead, so that the background of the page would show through. How could I create something like that in GIMP?
I want to create a flow chart once in Powerpoint, then reuse and/or crop it in multiple slides. Then, I want any changes I make to be propagated across all slides so I don't have to copy/paste many times. The reason I want to do this is to create context with different components of the flow chart, but be able to modify the chart in one place and have it apply on the other slides. Is this possible to do? note: I'm in Powerpoint for Mac 2011.
Here's my original logo image: I want to create a diagonal cut effect as in the following : What I'm currently doing is the following : I'm making the illusion that the image is cut but using a rectangle (which is shown in red here but normally would be with white borders) that is rotated. Now, when I export the image in illustrator, I get the first image result. However, my problem is that this works well on a white background but does not on any other background since we clearly see the rectangle in white on a black background per say. How can I manage to cut the edge of the rectangles to produce the desired effect without using a big rectangle that would be shown on a color background.
Is there a Photoshop or Illustrator action or a set of brushes that can help me achieve this image style and feeling in my drawings / photos? cartoon image http://thatstupidkid.com/journal/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/REMOTE-04-Escape-9-5.png
Monospaced fonts are used mainly for code editors and other special purposes and not usually for normal web pages, like an online newspaper for instance. I ponder however with the idea to do this and would like to know: Can a monospaced font be used successfully to deliver information (not art work)? Or is the idea just 100% wrong?
I want put my site logo over a t-shirt. I've successfully done so with a white t-shirt by following this video tutorial. With a black shirt, I have a problem with the multiply blend mode. Here is a screenshot for a white t-shirt: And here is one for a black t-shirt How can I place a logo over a black t-shirt?
I'm trying to figure out if this is a bug I should report, or whether it's normal behaviour. (I don't think it is normal, but would appreciate others' thoughts) I've created a simple triangle path on Inkscape, but when I drag handles to adjust a line's curves, nothing at all happens to the stroke of the shape - that's the black line in the image below. The red line shows the path's outline when I enable the 'Show path outline (without path effects)' setting, which does reflect what I've been doing with the handles. So, my question is.... is there any scenario in which this should happen in Inkscape? Or is it just being crackers?
How do I get the following shadow effect pls? In my image, I tried to add shadows and increased the size of the shadows. No avail. :( I want to get the shadow/smoky effect that is present in the borders of the red and green portions. I think I can somehow get the drop shadow effect of the Christmas trees. Even the green portion has a smoky shadow effect. Would love to reproduce the effect.
I have a client who runs a fairly traditional transport business; no thrills, creativity or fun about it. Until recently, he has been using a combination of Bookman Old Style Bold for headings with Comic Sans MS for main content on all internal and external documentation. I have tried to explain in a neutral manner (without offending) that his ongoing clients expect a level of professionalism that Comic Sans just does not represent, despite that he has often stuck to his guns. As the person who makes most of the new documents, I have sort of forced him to change over a long period by simply using Bookman Old Style alone, and avoiding the topic of font when discussing the work. This is not exactly kosher in my opinion, as I'm making a decision for him. How can I explain the reasons for using or not using a font, in a clear and concise manner? How do you describe the effect that a font will have? Are there a set of broad categories that you can use to describe fonts (and maybe their personalities)?
When I export to PDF from InDesign, the text appear thick & clumpsy in the resulting file. They look correct in InDesign, they look correct if I print from InDesign but when I export (PDF/X-1 or any other preset) they get darker and loose their elegance. I can get around the problem by outlining all text before exporting, but that feels like '98 all over again and I'm working on a 70 page catalogue so I'd rather not as I would also loose the 'copy & pastability'. Did anyone come across this problem?
I used inkscape to grab an image out of a pdf. After doing so, I found out the only way it would actually save was to save it to .svg. I then tried saving the svg to eps/pdf/wmf/emf... etc basically every format I can think of, and they are all just blank pages. I even tried opening it in chrome, which it does, but when i click print (to send it to a pdf printer), the page is just a big black box. I'm uploading the .svg at the link below, i'm wondering if its some transparency problem but I have no idea how to fix it.. http://d-h.st/eXQ <- link to .svg file edit: new link to SVG http://www.filedropper.com/drawing-2 As a note I'm trying ot get this into eps to use in a LaTex document.. Thanks!
I have always looked for a tool that can create videos like these (see second section, the overview) These tools are normally used on the videos for startups, and if I'm not wrong, the graphics shown are all SVGs. I'm preferably looking for an Open Source program. What software is used to make videos/animations with SVGs?
This is a follow-up question of this one: What page numbering conventions are there for front matters (prelims) of books? If I were to use roman numbers, should they be in small or capital letters? I've seen this changes when using babel in spanish or english with LaTeX, but I'm not sure if this is because of a graphic design guidelines.
There is a package in LaTeX called lettrine, which allows you to use a drop cap. You can check an example here I want to know how many lines of space should I give it for a one column technical document. According to my friend designers, it's usually a rule to do everything by 3, so I did: But for some reason I began to think that maybe the S is just too big (because of the "Chapter 1" and "Introduction"). So I also went with 2 lines: Which one should I prefer? Latest version
Is there an easy way to drag deselect layers using auto-select? I often use drag select to select layers, but often this ends up select other layers that happen to partially overlap. I'd like to be able to drag over these extra layers and deselect them. Thanks,
I want to draw some icebergs in Gimp or Photoshop. In Gimp I tried Path Tool, and then I tried to fill in the colors with Bucket Fill, but this gave me a very bad result. So my question is if anyone can help me, either in Photoshop or Gimp, to get started?
cambrianvacation.co.uk/safeside The Safeside logo is saved as PNG-24 in Photoshop CS6, but there is some degradation in old versions of IE and Safari / Windows. The size of the image in Photoshop is close to the actual size on the site, th quality I've saved it at is high, it needs to be a PNG as I need the transparency. Does anyone know why it degrades in these browsers, everywhere lese it looks great. Ant:-)
I've been working on an invitation and I want to use a gold shimmer paper to print on. My printer suggested I subtract everything I want to show as gold on the background. 1st picture shown is my design. I need to get everything that is gold looking to be subtracted from the black background. My problem is, every time I try and use Pathfinder - Minus front, I'm left with what would be the "fill" of my outer paths subtracted. See second image. How do i go about getting all of my line paths to be subtracted without this happening?
I am trying to create my first medium-sized poster in Photoshop, to print at 300ppi on A3. I need to bring together a collage of small files but I am worried that I will inadvertently expand one of the images beyond the 300ppi mark, so it looks blurry. In particular I am using iPhone and Android screenhots and I want the text to appear sharp. Can you advise - is there something like the pre-flight tool in InDesign for checking resolutions of individual components?
I am working in Photoshop. I have a black icon on a transparent background that I would like to "invert"--I would like to make the transparent areas white, and the black areas transparent. By following along with this tutorial I managed to mask my image and turn the black areas transparent and the previously transparent areas to white, preserving the semitransparent pixels. I would like to now set the black pixels to white, but when I use "Invert" it inverts the fully black pixels to white, but the semitransparent gray pixels remain gray. How can I invert the semitransparent pixels as well? I want them to be white-transparent instead of black-transparent.
I'm trying to create an 6-sided star shape with the polygon tool.selecting star in Polygon Options, This is not a problem, but if I want fixed radius there is a option for giving values for radius...i want it to be adjustable in canvas by click and drag to Adjust the radius of the star..i am not getting wheather there is any option for Click and drag to adjust radius star using Polygon tool..... Is there an option which I have to adjust? i want this star act to be custom shape?
I am a developer not a designer, thus am not particularly familiar with photoshop, and may subsequently get some of my terms incorrect. I have a PSD that contains several layers outlining the design of a website. One of the layers is a cropped jpeg. The jpeg has also had some filters added to it... I would like to export this layer, however, I need it in as high resolution as possible. I do not want it the same size as the layer appears in my psd, I need it the same size as it appear when I double click on it, whilst also maintaining the filters and croppings... Is this possible or do I have to export the full size image and then apply the filters and cropping myself?
I need to know how can I do a professional Floral Swirl Pattern using Illustrator. I know I can find many vector-based custom shapes already made, but I need to create it from scratch. I need to do something like this. So my questions are: I need to know which tools should I use in illustrator, I know I need a brush, what else? Do I need a graphic tablet to do it? One of my problem is each time I try to draw the main pivot using the brush by the mouse, it comes out so ugly not smooth like when you draw using a pen.
There are plenty tutorials online on how to create 3D red/cyan anaglyphs from existing photos in Photoshop or similar software. However, I'm wondering if it is possible to draw a 3D image by hand on for example a whiteboard using markers. My plan is to tape together a red and blue marker and draw with it using the same rotation/inclination of the marker across the drawing. Will this give a 3D effect when viewed through red/cyan glasses? Or is the 3D anaglyph method more complex than just offsetting red and cyan lines?
I am reading into Illustrator a PDF output from R (grid graphics I believe) in which the circles show as boxes with crosses inside them. These pictures illustrate: In OSX Preview: In Illustrator: Any idea why this is happening, and how to work around it? The following Illustrator message pops up when opening the file, which may be significant.
I made an image in Illustrator with the pen tool and stuff and now it's kinda transparent. When I click the opacity however, it says that it's 100% on both the layer and the path. I have other layers that look perfectly fine, and if I multiply this layer then the opacity increases. I'm not sure what the problem is. Transparency window and appearance windows say 100%. Also, I discovered that when I take a path from the layer and put it on a different layer, the opacity works fine. Here's a capture: You will see 2 objects and a lion cartoon, the lion cartoon was imported from google chrome, so the orange object on the right is on the lions layer, and the orange object on the left is on the layer where I created it. Hope the picture explains something XD
I've drawn a rectangle with rounded corners and I want to use it as a text box. But if I choose area type tool and click the rectangle, the rectangle will disappear. I can't set the stroke because it's for the texts themselves. So how to display the text box? Thank you.
So I bought this business card template that comes as a PSD file with the U.S Web Coated (SWOP) v2 CMYK profile. I edited it in Photoshop and then found out the printer company: wants CMYK colour mode and uses FOGRA39 as the profile. says fonts must be converted into paths / curves or embedded completely. suggests to send PDF/ X-standard (PDF/ X3-standard or PDF/ X1a-standard). So now I am unsure what to do so colors on the card look as close as these on screen: Convert to FOGRA39 > save as PDF using FOGRA39 Rasterize > Flatten > convert to FOGRA39 > save as PDF using FOGRA39 Save as PDF using FOGRA39 directly Also I believe Photoshop uses vector fonts, thus I assume it is better NOT to rasterize them, so when saved to PDF they look great at any magnification? Would that work if the printer company doesn't have the font? I mean is this what they mean by "embedded completely" Thank you.
I'm working on a calendar app that lets you toggle your vacation days. There's a feature for choosing which of those days count only half. Usage: The user toggles some days, those days turn orange. The user can then click a button "choose half days". When clicking, the whole page fades, except for the orange days. You are now in a mode where any click on the orange days adds stripes to indicate they only count half. Any other clicks returns to the previous mode. If you want to try it, go to the app, toggle a few days, the click the button labelled "½ Tage wählen" beside the lower-right link to 2014. I've been using jQuery Tools for the exposé effect. For technical reasons, I cannot continue to use it. And thinking about it, it might not be the ideal solution for turning orange days into half days (the "mode" thing is bothering me). So, my question is: Are there other/better ways to make clickable areas on a page stand out to indicate which areas should be clicked?
This font looks like a "thin" Open Sans, how they do it? Or maybe it's a different font?
I drew paths thinking i was drawing a shape but later realized it is only a path. Now i could create a temporary shape like a box and paste this in and delete the box path. But just as there is a option to convert path to selection, is there an option to convert the selected path into shape?
Cropping .svg files on the command line is simple: $ inkscape --verb=FitCanvasToDrawing --verb=FileSave --verb=FileClose *.svg I need to do the opposite. I want to fit the drawing into a 64 x 64 points canvas (already set in all .svg files). Unfortunately Inkscape doesn't provide a FitDrawingToCanvas command. Moreover, the fitting should keep the aspect ratio of the drawing. If it matters: I'm using Ubuntu raring.
I'm designing a web template in Photoshop and I need to create a style which looks like a pie with cut pieces. How could I create it using Photoshop CS3 tools? Or it can only created in Illustrator? Any extra advice on how to create pie graphics in Illustrator or Photoshop will be greatly appreciated. need to show the circle like cut pieces like pie chat now i created this in Photoshop
Is it possible to paint only inside a stroke on illustrator? what i actually want to do is paint the same stroke with different colors in diferent segments of it but i can't do it... Also... I've seen some tutorials that include editing a gradient but that would be very complicated and so would be to make a new stroke over this one, I just hope theres an easyer way XD Edit per comment: thats cool but not really what im looking for, what i want is lets say my stroke has the shape of a burger i want part of i to be bread color and part of it to be meat color... not one stroke over the other... i want something like this, imagine the jelly worm is my stroke:
I want to recreate the following image at a much higher resolution, so it will be suitable for printing in large. I have found a place where I can purchase a high-resolution version of the ice cream cone, as well as (a good imitation of) the font. The only difficult (to me) part of putting the image together is recolouring the stock photo to match the ice cream in the smaller image as closely as possible. I somehow want to keep the small-scale detail of the higher resolution image while preserving the colour of the smaller image. I was hoping someone here could explain to me how to do this. The only software I have on hand is Gimp, so I would prefer to do it there. If doing this is for some reason next to impossible in Gimp and very easy in (some recent-ish version of) Photoshop, I might be able to get access to a computer with Photoshop for a few hours, but that would be much less practical for me. (ETA: To be clear, I have permission from the creator of the image to do this.)
I'm trying to find a good font that pairs well with a logo that uses 'Kursivschrift.' While I'm not a fan of the font due to the excessive amount of kerning required to make it work, it is the main logogtype. Here's the idea: I want to find two fonts, or a good family, that fit the look of Kursivschrift (I think a Sans-serif and Serif would give the most versatility) so that I don't have to use Kursivschrift as a headline font, it can just be the logotype. At least one of the fonts chosen has to be used with the logotype as a tagline of sorts. If it helps at all... I've been playing around with URW Grotesk and its sister URW Antiqua (just not sure about the choice):
I've been looking at lots of the Motion Graphics on Behance lately and i'm wondering what program and how these people make these animations? Some examples: http://www.behance.net/gallery/Think-With-Google/11204911 http://www.behance.net/gallery/Vector-experiments/9710159 Any help would help a ton. I'm sure lots other people would want this as well.
Is it possible to create a custom keyboard shortcut in Adobe Illustrator CS6 on OS X 10.8.5 to align and/or distribute objects (center/left/right/etc)? I know I can open the Align window, but I would like to apply the alignment with a shortcut. Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts doesn't provide an option and it isn't clear to me how, if possible, to write my own in a keyboard shortcut file (e.g. /Users/user/Library/Preferences/Adobe Illustrator CS6 Settings/en_US/custom.kys).
Look at iMac mockups on this page. Quality of skewed screenshots placed in the mockups are poor. Seems like photoshop knows too little about super-sampling. I know how to render a 3d model in 3dsmax with good supersampling, but it's a much more tedious work. How can I make screenshots look good in photoshop? 3D layers? Maybe vanishing point? Smart-objects seem to be rendered poorly, very bad supersampling I mean.
Can anyone tell me how I can use Thai strings on Mac OSX in Photoshop? More than 45 different languages, including all the Asian languages, seem to render just fine. I can also render Thai in other programs, like Word and Excel and Chrome. Photoshop can even render thai characters correctly in the "Layer" palette. It just cannot render Thai characters on the canvas. Any tips on how to get this to work? Thanks!
Can anyone point me in the right direction? I'm looking in the Channel Box and the Attribute Editor for the Start and End Sweep for a Nurbs Sphere I created. I can't seem to find it. Channel Box, I can't scroll down, there are no more options. Attribute Editor: Can't seem to find it here either
I am currently working on images that have a neon color. The client has given me this color information : Volt = 71R , Black = OOA Can anyone please explain what this information means? Thankyou for your time! A
I'm at a new job so I'm not sure if this is a Firefox issue or hyperlink issue. Haven't experienced it before. I created a few hyperlinks (three spots for our company website, two for company email) as part of a catalog created in InDesign. Did PDF export and ticked to include hyperlinks. If Mozilla Firefox is running then all of the links work. Website opens in new tabs, email opens in Thunderbird (what we're using here). However, if I close Firefox then it freezes up and crashes Acrobat. Anyone know what might be causing this?
I've being doing some research regarding how to present a good quality technical document (to be more specific, a PhD Thesis). It seems to me there is some consensus regarding the fonts (as described in What font types are good for a technical document? and Fonts for technical reports), which makes me very happy because I really like when standards are around. So, since my thesis is in biomedical engineering, I've come to two conclusions: to use Times New Roman and to set the main font at 12pt (most of my readers are over 40 years old). Now what I need to know as one of the most general characteristics is what the text block should be. I've read some Tschichold's guidelines, and it can be summarized like this: textwidth=0.66666667\paperwidth,% inner=0.123\paperwidth,% (inner margin) textheight=0.666666667\paperheight,% bottom=0.22222222\paperheight,% headheight=1em,% (Look here for a graphical description) Now, it seems that is somewhat The Standard (although yesterday I was in a bookstore and I didn't see any book following Tschichold's scheme) for writing books, but is it OK to assume this should be the layout for a technical document? If not, what other set of rules can I follow?
I need to create a large amount of network/it diagrams for a client but I don't want to draw them all from scratch. Is there any where I can buy some really nice icons of servers / routers / phones etc. Isometric, 3d or flat is fine.
I am using Inkscape to create some wireframes/click throughs. I would like a way toggle the visibility of groups/sets of layers. For example, lets say I define the following sets: Group 1 - Layer1 (hidden), Layer2 (visible), layer3 (hidden) Group 2 - Layer1 (visible), Layer2 (hidden), layer3 (visible) Then, I could switch between the two groups and would not have to update the states of the layers individually.
I have been working for a while with Illustrator CC, and suddenly this strange behavior. Every time I create a new shape, Illustrator locates it at the back of the layer instead of the top. This is very annoying. How can I revert this behavior?
I am trying to create an image and added a Gradient Overlay style as seen below. I ended up with the following image (A part of image). Looking at the area circled in black, you can see a jagged curve. This is not as designed and occurs when I add the Gradient Overlay layer style. Can someone suggest how to get a smooth curve, without this jagged structure, when using the Gradient Overlay layer style? Edit: Image without gradient fill (without zooming) See the above two images. The left one is the actual one and the black line in the right image is the area where you need to look into. You can see zigzagged border over there.
I am working on a 3 fold a4 brochure in indesign cs4. I found a template with all the guides and margins but it is only for one side of the paper. Since the folded parts are not of equal width, I will need to flip the spread to have the correct dimensions for the back side. Is there a way to do this? Or is there any other way to carry all the margin and guide info to the back side? Thanks.
Hi someone can help to identify this font, it is used in HBO subtitles in spanish. Thanks
I'm writing scripts to automate some things and I would like to make it easier to identify what commands and functions a user is executing. Something like a plugin that monitors and then stores that information in a database or file would seem ideal. Does this exist or is this possible in the Photoshop and Illustrator scripting environments?
So I've seen this pattern in the background and banners of websites, but I don't know what it's called. I want to see more examples, and learn how to do it myself (Using CS2). This website has a example of what I'm talking about in it's seemless background: http://projectmgame.com/en/
I am working on choosing layouts and shapes of page components for a large educational web application containing more than 100 variety of web pages. I am currently trying with flat layouts and trying to keep minimum components so that each page look simple and easy to use. The bigger blocks displaying Theory Subjects and the smaller ones as labs (blocks count might vary). I have designed similar sketches for the entire application. But i want to make sure where to leave space which can be used later effectively to display advanced features. Basic Features are as follows. Question Answer Section File access/upload section Blog Post Section Time Table Section Note making Section Login/Register Section Home Page Events Section Exams and Results Departmental Notice section and many more pages Also the above page types are used by students, faculty, department, management belonging to an institute on regular basis. Please suggest best practices for defining layouts and shape of components for each category. Thanks in Advance.
I have a portfolio design in Photoshop, and I when I save that as an image file format, it gets compressed and low quality if I try to import it in Acrobat. I just want to export from PSD as an image and then import to Acrobat to create a PDF from that image(s). Am I doing this wrong? Is there any other way to create a PDF from images?
In PS Cs6, there is option to give stroke gradient and it can be aligned with layer however i can't find a way to move it any other way. I want to, let's say drag gradient.

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