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When I resize a shape in Photoshop CS6, its stroke's width remains the same size as it was in its original width. It could be desirable depending on a situation, but most of the time it's not. In fact, it beats the purpose of vector; same shape/look at all sizes. In illustrator you can expand the stroke so this problem...
I use Inkscape: Imagine I have a shape like an O which is a path. Or better said: Two paths, one for the outer boundary and another for the inner boundary. But it is one object (one path??). If I change the fill color, then the color of the O changes, e.g. to orange. Now what I want to do is to get the inner boundary p...
I upgraded to OS 10.9 and Keynote 6.0. In the previous version of Keynote, I was able to easily paste charts into Illustrator CS5 as vector objects, of which the elements could be independently manipulated by releasing the clipping mask. However, with Keynote 6.0, the same charts paste into Illustrator as .tiff files....
For example a flame who looks like a flame Or a typography snow who looks like snow Do you know the name of this exercice ?
I'm a newbie to designing things in Inkscape. I'm developing a website, in which the tabbed content will have icons. Some of the icons I designed, I see, aren't uniformly 32px x 32px, when I set the X-axis width to 32px. I want all my icons to be 32px x 32px, because all the sites I've been studying, use 32px x 32px an...
I made my old site logo in Gimp, it's basically white text surrounded by a black boundary that follows the contour of the text. I can describe this viscerally but there is probably a descriptive name for this effect. In Gimp I made it using this: Type white text Layer -> Transparency -> Add alpha to selection Then I w...
Is there an easy way to make n guide lines such that each one is x pixels from the previous one, other than manually entering a newly calculated x or y value for each line?
Using Photoshop CS5, i'm trying to fully remove background of a picture being shot behind a blue screen. To do this, i am using Color Range method (from Menu > Selection). It works ok for most parts of the picture but other for some having transparency (like hairs), there is still some glowing blue around it. Here is t...
I recently made some graphs in Illustrator CS6 to insert into a MS Word document. I created my original images using the Print profile with PPI set to 300. I used the "Save for Microsoft Office" option to export the images for Word. Why does this option create a PNG file (with a resolution of 150) as opposed to using, ...
Can anyone help me to identify this font? It's used in TCM subtitles for Latin-American TV. Thanks so much...
Trying to practice better on my typographic logos I wanted to challenge myself in creating a distorted text logo but I was unaware if any practices exist when considering pre-existing fonts in regards to Serif VS Sans-Serif. So my questions are as followed: Are there any stroke considerations when distorting the bowl?...
I created a cucumber model model (my first model) in 3DS Max 14. I used object paint to paint the bumps on the cucumber and user proboolean to attach the bumps to the cucumber. i am working with the default international unit and the cucumber is about 4 in length (I want to work in a 1:1 scale with a game engine). Aft...
I've merged some pictures into panorama and it looks like a rainbow. See my below picture: I wonder if there is a photoshop tool which allows me to draw/indicate a curved path and then have the tool automatically adjust the image until the path is a straight horizontal line.
I have a big image 5100px x 7000px. I have made the background transparent, and I am satisfied with the result: the parts of the image which I wanted to keep are there, and the white background is gone. But I am sure there are some pixels, here and there, that are lost in the huge transparent background: pixels which w...
I'm looking for a technique to avoid drop shadows on individual elements darkening each other out (multiplying the effect of the drop shadow). This is an image showing the undesired effect I'm talking about (also enlarged at the bottom of the image). I want the drop shadow on the white surface to be the same whether t...
How do I find out the exact size of a graphic or image after it has a clipping mask applied in Illustrator? When you just select the image or do Ctrl+A it shows the entire image size(including the masked unwanted portion) in the transform palette and I just need the final dimensions of the image. Can anyone suggest how...
I am getting crazy with these two things and after some days of getting nothing from Web search and experimentation I come to you. I am using Indesign CS4 and cannot get to do these two things: 1) Format a list for my chapters this way: Chaper X Title So in the paragraph style - Bullets and Numbering - Numbering style...
In color spaces we have the regular solid colors like solid red (#FF0000), solid green, solid blue, etc. ... Then when we add about 50% white ontop of it, it becomes a "pastel" color space... What about the opposite, if I add 50% black it gets just a dark and a pastel gets light... What are these called? What is the an...
Client in question found a public domain icon they really want to use as their logo (instead of having one designed, I know, I know). Is this legal?
I am trying to avoid using a background image (or any image-based solution) to effectively create this: Note: the red arrow is just pointing at the border in question. The arrow should not be included in your answer. How can I create this irregularly-shaped border with pure CSS (no images)? If images are unavoidable...
I seem to have lost the ability to adjust the size jitter - I keep getting just the size/hardness view.
I want a typography logo for an application. If I use free fonts for that, can I just use them directly without mentioning the creator of the free font, or without linking the page where I download them? Or do I have to?
How do I create a white drop shadow in Photoshop? The shadow disappears when I change the colour to #ffffff. Steps I have tried to produce a drop shadow: Assuming you have two layers (as shown in the image below). Right click on the top layer (in the layers window). Select Blending Options. In the Layer Style popup, s...
I've seen this kind of illustrations around the web, mostly on dribble, and I love them but the problem here is that I don't know how to achieve this effect, I tried with photoshop and illustrator but I can't figure it out. The only clue is its possible name, line art. Thanks.
I need to create a vectorized version of my local city skyline. If I use multiple artists photos as reference, is there any copyright concerns? I realize just taking one photographers work and tracing it would be against copyright law, but can I use multiple photos as reference? If I pull a mountain range from one phot...
Anyone know the name of an app where you can overlay the design mocks on the developed testing screens? I downloaded an iphone app like this before, but forgot what it was. It’s hard to for the developer to match the code to the image exactly, so it’d be greatly helpful for find it again.
I use Corel to produce hpgl files that feed a CNC wire cutter. If I want the CNC to cut a different shape at each end it will do it but only if the files for each end have the same number of nodes. How do I define the number of nodes on one curve and the exact same number of nodes on another curve in order that my CNC...
I'm using Illustrator CS6 on OS X. When choosing View -> Actual Size, the displayed elements are smaller on the screen than their actual size, say in centimetres. How can I "calibrate" Illustrator to my screen's resolution (dpi) so that it can display objects at life size when using 100% zoom? (Acrobat does have a DP...
When I am searching for designers, I find that an important skill is "layout" in the old DTP sense. The ability to position things on a page in a logical, attractive fashion. Do the kids these days still call that "layout"?
As for the title, is there a trackball with pressure feature for brushes in Photoshop? Many years ago I used a trackball in CAD/CAM software and now I'd like to use it in Photoshop retouching but I'love the pressure feature of a tablet. Edit: maybe is the wrong place to ask, but I just want to know if there is a track...
I'm 22 years old guy, from european country. I'm software engineer according to my diploma. I'm coding for 2 years now, i know few programming languages (ruby, objective-c, javascript, python), but last few months i started to do small tests with composing different vids (e.g. placing 3d animated objects into real worl...
Is there a better way in Photoshop to convert a black & white image into color other than just selecting the area and fill with color?
I have a table with digits. I want to change the percentage of the fill of each cell to this digit. Example:
I want to draw some square tiles on wall in illustrator , so i must create grid on wall , Is creating grid by line segment tool correct? how to color squares created between lines? here is a picture of my problem
I have some placed files in an Illustrator document, linked to the originals. When the originals are changed, Illustrator updates the placed versions. However, it keeps them at the same physical size (in centimetres), even if the size of the original was changed. Is it possible to get Illustrator to keep the same sca...
I am having trouble with the pen tool. It was working just fine until it didn't want to fill the path. I don't know what I did to have this kind of problem. I'm currently using Photoshop CS6 and I mostly use the pen and brush tool for the illustrations. After I created the path, I right click and try to fill the path. ...
Can anyone help me to identify the font used for most of the headings and body text on www.stripe.com I am hoping it's a font which is available via Typekit or Google Fonts! Thanks, James
In previous versions it used to be under Select > Similar layers but I can't find it anymore.
My goal is to learn this kind of graphs that represent articulation points / biconnected components and now I am trying to learn it but every time I try to colour a half circle it colours the whole circle. So how can I colour segments of circle like the above?
So I'm pretty noobish when it comes to Illustrator, but I can't tell what I'm doing wrong here. I've got this pattern brush on a path, and the path has some Width Points set on it, but I can't select Width Points as the source for the scale of the brush. Every menu item is greyed out, which okay, I don't have a tablet...
Ok I tried a few times rendering my 3d animation to video custom 1280x720, image aspect 1.778 pixel aspect 0.9. So far when you see it as it renders it appears to look fine, but after all the rendering was done and viewed the video on VLC it wasn't even the right size, it was 720x480 and the width appeared squeezed and...
I rasterized a logo (plus made other changes I can't quite remember), a few days ago and ever since then my logo is jagged and distorted. Even though I didn't save whatever effect I applied, all my artwork now doesn't look as it should. Here's how it looks now and here's how it looked then. I've deleted the AIPrefs f...
I want to get the icons behind the top icon, how can I get them visible? I am using Macbook Air without a mouse.
I want a logo that really jumps out at you. I am much less interested in brand identity etc. I just want it to be memorable. It also has to be the centerpiece around which I will "wrap" my trucks. Every designer I have received samples from just doesn't seem to deliver on what I'm looking for. They all do variants o...
How could I make a curvilinear perspective with Gimp? I've found out making a linear perspective, but not curvilinear. My guess was that there were any way to move the single points in the grid, and not just the endpoints.
After several Google searches and searching the forum, I'm looking for simple, lightweight and easy way to create a clear glass overlay. I've attached an image that shows the clarity. It's easy to do in CSS but I can't figure out how to do it in Photoshop.
Each slice can have different optimize settings, however overlapping objects can't be exported to separate files using slices. Exporting layers solves this problem nicely, however it uses the Document's optimize settings. I'd like one object to be exported as a GIF, another as PNG32 for example. Is there some way of at...
I've been trying to describe this effect on google and got no useful results. Seems like its a mix between a tint via the overlay and the offset? Here is another example, but the effect seems less pronounced.
I have a report made in InDesign that needs to go to several different types of recipients (e.g. study participants, advisory board, and other powers-than be). The report everyone gets is the same, except page 1, which is a cover letter. Each cover letter using data merge to create a letter for each recipient. There ar...
You see I want to know how this split inbetween the text is achieved like how it slants. Also does anyone know what the font to this is? It's really cool, or does anyone have any fonts that are similar to this? Thanks guys!
I'm making a logo in PS which is gonna go on a website. It is supposed to be just the logo and the main background of the webpage. But when I either save in .png or .gif format I get a small white border around the image. This is the settings I used for PNG: And this is the settings I used for .gif format: When I s...
See the below image of a keyboard of an IBM ThinkPad X41. What is the font used for labeling the keys? Note that the font is used on many, if not all, ThinkPad keyboards. However, I am not sure about that, and that's the reason why I stayed specific to the X41 keyboard. Image at full resolution: https://i.stack.imgur....
For example, if I complete a drawing of Ryu from street fighter or Naruto is it legal to sell it online?
I ran the below image through What the Font without any luck. Can someone help me identify what font this is, or a very close substitute? Note: The effect on the font may be the font or may be styling. I can replicate the styling if I can get the font correct.
I'm working on a movie script. I'm having some issues with my indents... All the spoken text is outlined to the left, but I want the name of the speakers to be in front of this paragraph. The name of the speaker and the text itself are in the same text field. It should look like this: Because I can't make a paragraph ...
Can I draw this graph using Inkscape? I am new to this image editor and I have read the guidelines but it still seems hard to do. Can you please help me to draw an identical graph that also includes the symbols?
As we want to reprint our old T-Shirts from the student representatives, but we have to change something - and we don't know anymore the font, which was used. No automatic service was able to detect the font, especially the y does not match. The font looks like this:
I'm working on a small project to add the note names to one of my guitar fretboards. Right now I've got all the note names laid out in a simple grid but I can't for the life of me figure out how to distort the grid to fit the neck- the neck is wider at the bottom than at the top. I've tried using the free transform too...
I am searching for a way to draw a Geometric Brownian Motion (GBM) on Illustrator. Essentially, a GBM looks like a random wiggly line: Thanks for your inputs!
I have found that the Patch Tool is really useful for certain healing situations, but I can't stand that it is only freehand drawn. Is there a way to use a click-move-click-move-click selection method (like to polygonal lasso tool)? I'm using CS6.
I'm fairly new to designing. As of now, I have this design: Click image for full resolution As you can see there is a small link in the upper right corner (Upload Prenda Link). When clicked, it toggles the an uploading div to look like this: Click image for full resolution and vice versa.. The link itself looks ...
Hello guys i am learning illustrator, my question is this type of image http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-129229757/stock-vector-modern-spiral-infographics-options-banner-vector-illustration-can-be-used-for-workflow-layout.html?src=rLOI0N-oEQllQwlV1mhO1A-1-0 Can it be done only in Illustrator? It doesn't looks like a ty...
Here is the problem: Two element. Instagram and Flickr. They both show 4 images then the user has to click on Load more to load the next 4 images. I think it would be pretty annoying for the user to click the load more button every time. Can you think of another, more efficient way to present this?
I am attempting to either "revive" or find a particular font for a project, but seeing as I found it in an old book, I have only been able to find a few examples of its usage. Using the examples below, would any of you happen to know the name for it or point me to some other books or documents where it was used? As a c...
I have about 280 Illustrator .ai files that I need to convert into .png files with a finished size of 500px x 500px. All of them aren't squared, so those that are, for example rectangular, need to be centered in the image and the background needs to be transparent. Is there an easier way to do this because I wouldn't l...
I'm not much of a graphic artist, but I try to learn how to do new things. I learned how to use the Extrude & Bevel to create a 3D effect. I like the result. But I'm using the resulting graphic on a web page. What I would like to do is be able to control the color through CSS. I was thinking maybe create some kind of ...
I'm using Illustrator to create a presentation and I use images of part of my screen. I basically take a screenshot (actually I use Snagit to only copy a part of my screen, but I don't think that is relevant) and paste it into illustrator. I was expecting the raster image to be paste at the native resolution of the pic...
I am following Apple's iTunes connect guide (as of today 13th November 2013) for designing an image. At page 239 of their guide I am confused on the following: Background artwork must be at least 3200 pixels in width and 600 pixels in height with a minimum resolution of 72 dpi, in the RGB color space, and in the P...
I have exported a fireworks .fw.png file to a .png and a .css file. I have lost the .fw.png files and the .css file has 200+ objects. Is there anyway to recreate the slices from the CSS code?
I have just received some business cards that I ordered to a local copy shop (not a printing house). The result is acceptable, but it doesn't look very professional. It is 87x54.5 mm, while the standard size is 85x55 mm. As I am not a graphic design professional, I ask you guys to help me identify the printing practis...
Is there a site/software that can aid in the design of an image that shows a Mac/PC with my product/screenshot displayed. I once found a site that enabled you to upload an image, choose a type of device (eg. Mac), then produced an image of that Mac with your image on the screen, but have lost the link. Thanks in advanc...
I've been doing a lot of research and reading on how to better myself with typography and one issue I would like to improve is pairing fonts. However, all the articles I have read discuss that fonts have a personality but I do not know how or what is used to determine their personality. Is the personality subjecti...
I am creating a catalog in InDesign and I am using the “book” feature because I have different files to create my catalog all into one. I am trying to create bookmarks, so that when I PDF the book, they will show up in Acrobat. My problem is that you can only bookmark each file separately and not as a whole book. I w...
I'm designing box art for a card game but I've never really designed packages before. The layout, I think, is really simple to create, but I don't know how much room to give to let the cards slide in ant out relatively easily and to have the game instructions not too tight. the dimensions of the cards are business card...
I tried doing some pixel art, used the Rectangular Grid Tool, used Live Paint to create the art and then I expanded it from Object>Live Paint>Expand. I'm using 2 colors, black and red. My problem is that when I'm trying to resize this expanded art work as a group it ads one line of gray-white-red pixels. Click image f...
I'm making a wedding photo book, with deferent photos of course. When I open the file with Indesign, some of the photos seem to have repeated themselves. I don't know if its because they are all on one layer or because they have the same name. I first edit them on Photoshop and save them as the same name. Can anyone te...
This may be a very basic question for this forum but here goes. I am beginning to create masks for sandcarving using UV film and I need to use B&W vector line art to be able to print a clear film with blacks dense enough to block the UV light during exposure. My images are in JPG, BMP, GIF, etc and I need to convert t...
I've opened up some TIFF graphics in Photoshop CS4. When going to Image -> Mode, they all show "Grayscale" and "8 bits per channel" checked. But when looking at the tabs, some show "Gray/8", and others show "Gray/8#". What's the difference?
The size of the poster I am making in InDesign keeps getting adjusted as I work on it. When I changed its width from 60 inches wide to 55 inches wide using Document Setup, it made that change but also scrunched the contents of my poster together, maintaining my margins (I guess). Is there a way to mimic Illustrator's...
So, I have my layers and when I go to File > Add Slices For Selection to slice the images and then export. They are coming out with the wrong size, if you take the star, it has a width of 40px on the sheet but when I export it the total width of the image is 60px or so. Is there a away to make the images export and sta...
In Gimp (preferrably) or Photoshop, how would you please draw such a board for a word game? I wonder how to: Draw a grid with equidistant lines for a 15 x 15 board? In the colored rectangles - how to put the strings "3L", "3W", etc. (missing in the above image) - so that they are really in the middle?
Im using Gimp 2.8.6 on Ubuntu 13.10 (64-bit) Not all the time, but randomly, Gimp chooses not to stroke a path correctly. Here is a "before and after stroke" picture (it's a close-up) : What is wrong with my Gimp / options? Why does this happen?
Anyone have clever solutions for drop-shadows from InDesign that are being uploaded in .pdf to a website? I've just learned that the new Firefox built-in reader doesn't support it, known issue (Mozilla Support showing issue). I tried PDF/X-1a which fixed the shadow issue but one of the more complex sections gets thin w...
I am on Ubuntu and trying to learn Inkscape. When I draw a line with the 'pen tool', if a line self-intersects there is a white space in the intersection. How do I avoid that? Is there some setting for it?
I'm trying to fit a flat, straight-forward image into the slightly angled iPhone below. I don't know the difference between perspective, warp, skew, etc. and I'm not sure which tool I should use to achieve this effect. I've tried to use wrap and while it seems like I'm on track, it just doesn't look right. Thanks! Here...
I just can't make pure blue (R=0,G=0,B=255) circle. It says "out of gamut warning". If I press "fix" or something, it makes color black but not blue. I don't need this "service". How to bother out such things as "gamuts" and that similar staff? I want each object be the color I want, not somebody regard as "correct".
I'm trying to have a crack at designing a simple business card using a logo which was created for me. I've run into a problem.. I had a logo made which looks pretty standard. Not sure what font is being used here. The standard size was quite large, to fit onto the business card I needed to shrink it. One for the front ...
I've made some random text in photoshop. I want to make that text look like mirror image, like in picture below: But the problem that I'm facing is, that I'm using pattern overlay effect on my primary text. And if I transform this text to vertical image, there is a whole new color applied to that mirrored text. Please...
To learn the fundamentals of interface design, I am trying to replicate some better known app interfaces. The 'flatter' layout of many iOS7 applications makes it relatively straightforward. However the toughest part by far has been the icons. Deconstructing other PSDs available online, I have been able to reproduce the...
I'm doing front-end dev, so this question comes from that perspective. When I receive a .psd I manually go through each font in the design, click on it, then use the character panel to get the font, color, size, kerning, etc. Sometimes, I get a design that uses several different fonts (4+) with many variations of the...
Salutations! I have remarkably little experience in graphic design, and I'm running into a tools problem; I am not sure what I can use to get the effect I want. To wit, I am working on mocking up some cards for use in an RPG. Right now, they look like this: I would like to place some text in the white areas on this ca...
like on this train how do you remove the decorative lines?
If you visit apple's little subpage for the upcoming Mac Pro (http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/), they are using a wonderfully thin yet crisp and legible font for all the title (all rendered as image files). Any idea what the font family is? Ive run it through whatthefont, but the results and close but no cigar.. Thank yo...
How to make a burn effect in photoshop ? Is this effect created using a plugin in photoshop ?? or with any other software ?? please see the picture.
I'm new to Illustrator and I'm clearly doing something not quite right. In Microsoft Paint I'm used to using my prodigious skill to produce color swirls like this: Which are made by scrawling around with a brush or pencil and then just using the bucket to fill in the sections. So I'm trying to carry that over to Illus...
I want the borders to stay fixed in Inkscape when I'm resizing an object. I found these buttons in Inkscape v0.48.3.1, but they don't seem to work. Is there any other settings that I should turn on? These are the buttons that should control that: EDIT The answer below should be valid, but for some reason this doesn't ...
Is there any way to create a table of contents for the catalog I am designing in Corel Draw X6 ?
A little help with creating an action. I'm trying to crop a bunch of photos and apply some filters to them. The problem is I want to crop each photo differently. Is it possible to stop the action and let user to make a selection and continue playing action automatically?
I have a multi-page PDF created with 7 Artboards in Adobe Illustrator CS6. The problem is the PDF file created is too large (40MB). The pages (artboards) have the same exact high-res raster graphic as a background, but with different vector graphics on top of them. I'm sure the PDF file size could be smaller if Illust...
I have created a colour gradient I wish to use, but when I go to Blending Options > Gradient Overlay it applies the gradient but only in black and white (suddenly my colours are only grey/black/white. I've checked the settings by going to Image > Mode > RGB and that is fine. I've also checked the colour settings under ...

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