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In my short experience with graphic design I've seen design go from bevel & emboss to all flat designs. People always hop onto these design trends with no hesitation. Anyways, I have a few questions about this topic: 1) What creates a design trend? One person? A large company re-branding? 2) Should you always try and stick with the newest trend? Or can you stick with the old things? 3) What looks like it could be the next design trend? I've seen some low poly art and, in my opinion, it looks like it could be way bigger than it is now.
Does anyone know anything about this symbol? A name or meaning? Something religious? I took the picture of the symbol in Hohensalzburg Castle in Austria. I can not find anything about it. I'm mainly interested because it seems quite beautiful by having these eight symmetry lines. I'm also publishing the picture as public domain and would like to know the name for that. Thank you.
I'm designing a card game and my friend (who is a graphic designer and works at a commercial printing establishment) told me to keep in mind the thinness of my lines when sending the docs to print. An example of one of the graphics she was concerned about (the front box art): (sized at 3.5" x 4" when printed) The background of the lines are at a .5pt stroke thickness in Illustrator and print fine when I print from a digital printer. I've never had any experience with offset printing yet. Would my graphic be too difficult to get good results? Should I find a different solution for the background?
I found the paper format of Lecture Notes in Computer Science proceedings issued by Springer very nice. I tried to find out what is it, but I wasn't able to find it in Wiki list of paper sizes. The book size is 236mm x 155mm (9.3in x 6.1in) after binding. I think it's 236mm x 157mm (9.3in x 6.2in) before binding since that would make a 3:2 ratio. I would like to know whether this paper size is recognized under any name/code. (I basically ask because I wouldn't like to use a fairly non-standard paper size. However, part of me is quite curious about it as well.)
I'm editing an image for print and I've got it all set up how I want in Photoshop (cs5), but when I go to File > Save as > Jpeg (quality 12, Baseline standard) the colours all seem duller and there seems to be a 'fog' over the image. I'm not sure if this has anything to do with it but the image is A2 at 300dpi, any ideas why this is happening and how to prevent it? I've attached a screenshot of the problem below, on the left is the image in Photoshop, and on the right is the 'foggy' image when exported as a jpeg. I've also found that if I set the image > mode > RGB (it was CMYK before) the problem goes away.. but I'm printing this on a printer that specifies CMYK.. so I've half solved the problem, any idea how to get this to export correctly in CMYK?
I have two paragraph styles defined in my InDesign document: Heading1 has the space after set at .75 inches and Heading2 has space before set at .5 inches. In only one spot in my document does the Heading2 come right after Heading1, and a 1.25 inch space is created between them. I only want a .75 inch space between these headings-- in other words I don't want the space after and space before added together-- I want them to collapse into the value of the larger "space" (.75 inches). Is there a setting or trick to get those "spaces" to collapse, kind of like how margins collapse in CSS?
As you can see in the picture above. I can't fully fill the hair with color, why is that?
From my understanding, The SVGZ is a compressed file type of an SVG. I love using SVG images and have had a lot of experience with them. All of the times I used them I have never had a graphic that went over a few hundred kilobytes. I use SVG for responsive graphics while making responsive websites. I also use them since my favorite design style is vector based graphics. My strongest design strength is illustrator, especially when it comes to graphic design. The other reason I would use an SVG graphic is due to the ease of animating certain elements of the graphic, like arms, legs, etc. Especially background elements, like a city to span across the entire page while I animate some flickering of lights and so on. If the file is compressed, would it lose the SVG code so I couldn't animate it? Is there any reason I should use an SVGZ over just an SVG? Update Well I decided to just make an SVG and SVGZ to see how they acted with the web since I found out my works ancient CS3 can save SVGZ! After testing I ran into a very unexpected problem with the SVGZ file type. (Tested on Chrome, Firefox, and IE) If you go to the direct URL of the image you get an error. I am assuming you can't access the SVG code on these files types but after making a fiddle it doesn't even seem to display the image. Are these useless for the web? .svg .svgz JSFIDDLE
There's a name for this, and I even found a web site that helps you create such things for web sites, but I can't find or remember either. The element is on both sides of "Season 2014" :
I was trying something like infographic design, typographic design...but I can't find lots of examples or tutorials, and it's weird because I've seen them everywhere!! With those headers and ornaments... If you know where to find these designs or how they're actually called, if they are called something, that would be great! Thank you!
I am putting a text heavy book together, 6in x 9in paper size. (Perhaps related are this and this link.) Now I look for good font pairings (nice examples are here) and margin settings and line spacing that works well. My current settings are 0.8in top/bottom margin, and then 0.8in inner and 1in outer margin; line spacing 1.3. What are recommended approaches here, how can I set up visually pleasing pages? EDIT: I would like to have a clean and simple feel to the book, while the text is readable comfortably. Almost leaning towards sans fonts although I'm not too sure if that makes for good reading comfort. EDIT: After posting this question and receiving heaps of good comments, I started reading the book "Elements of Typographic Style" which gives answers to pretty much any question this thread raised, directly or indirectly. I'll post whatever typefaces and page settings I chose later...
Right now when I draw with my pen tablet, the width of each stroke is pretty much identical, unless I comically push hard or release slowly. But in videos such as this it seems effortless for the artist to have beautiful, varying widths. How is this accomplished?
I'm using Photoshop CS6 to make a label and I need to convert all layers to InDesign CS4. I've never done this...is it possible?
I'm trying to identify the fonts used in the attached images. I suspect that the Japanese sample is a Dynacomware font, but I don't see a match on FontShop. I think it’s been discontinued by the company or something. I have no idea about the chinese sample. Does anybody know what they are? Actual Japanese Text: ネズミどものにおいは確かに不快で強烈だったが、その食欲のすさまじさには比べるべくもなかった。
I have made an action that resizes an image to 30%. How can I set that value to 40%, preferably without having to make a new action? I have highlighted the area that I would like to change:
I'm looking to solve a workflow issue; editing a selected layer's text without having to go back to the mouse each time. You can change the selected layer via keyboard shortcuts, so if you could also enter editing mode through the keyboard you could quickly shift through items to edit them. Is there a keyboard shortcut (or alternative method) that can be used to quickly enter text editing mode of a selected text layer?
In Illustrator, CS5 is there any way to keep the tool options window open or viewable when using the blob brush/eraser tools? It's a pain in the butt when you havg to change the direction or shape of the brush tip with every stroke!
I am using web content layouts to make sure my animations are shown on the iPad. If I display the magazine on an iPad, I can see a loading icon on opening the page, right before the animation starts. Is it possible to remove this loading icon?
Suppose I need to draw a grid in Photoshop, each square being the same size, and a certain amount of pixels tall and wide, and the grid lines having a certain pixel width. Like this: Currently I do this by drawing one square, copy+pasting+moving+merging it a few times to create one row, copy/pasting that a few times to create more rows above each other. It works, but feels very clumsy, I'm sure there ought to be a more efficient way to do this? What are some efficient methods for creating a grid of equally sized squares?
I just stumbled across this really neat font. Can anyone identify it? I'm referring to the text that says "360° OF SUCCESS"
I'm hoping you guys can help. I've been using photoshop for donkeys years, but the one difficulty I have is cutting out products in a professional way. I decided to take the underlying photo on a black background because the product is white. I have attempted inverting the black, magic wand, AND quick selection tool but just can't get a nice result. I know the quality of the image isn't great, but my DSLR is pretty old now. Hope you guys can offer some advice. https://i.stack.imgur.com/yQkyp.jpg
I have searched far and wide for this, and cannot figure it out. I create and run an action, but I want the action to save the image with the original name + two custom letters. Original image is called IMG_3232.jpg I want the after-action (resize) image called IMG_3232aW.jpg So of course the whole idea of creating an action is to run this on lots of images, and they all should get the "IMG_xxxxaW.jpg marker. Any pointers much appreciated. Displaying my ignorance: it seems to me it will not accept aW as addition to unique file name. It seems to insist I add a running, unique addition - which is what I do not want.
I have a photo that I want to pixelate. I don't want to apply the filter over the whole image, just the left half. Now comes the tricky part: I want the filter to be very coarse (i.e. big pixels) near the left edge and gradually go to finer pixels towards the middle of the photo and transition smoothly to the unfiltered half. Is there a fairly easy way to do this?
I have a transperent image image1.png that is383 x 133 px, and another background image image2.gif that is 430 x 128 px. I opened both of images in two separate tabs in Photoshop. Then I copied the image from the first tab and pasted it over the background image in the second tab. The first image automatically sits in the middle of the second image. But when I save it and include it in my html page, the combined image looks blurred. What am I doing wrong? is there another way to combine two images?
I am working on a logo for a sock business. My current result is: As you may notice the proportions of the abstracted sock are quite awful. Do you have an idea what I could do to make this better? PS: If there are other recommendations don't be shy :)
For example, in this album cover: Is the text "imposed" over the image? What is the right word for placing one layer of design on top of another?
I'm a programmer, trying to create a good looking portfolio for myself. I have very little knowledge about graphic design, so please forgive me if I'm asking too broad questions. I want to learn ways to convert a regular image, to a background image. What I mean is, If I find a beautiful image (say this one), it does not always go as a background. It has so many lines, colour changes etc, that the text on it cannot be read easily. So I try to blur it, darken it, decrease saturation etc. But it simply does not look good. I've seen people adding some "stripes" or "grids" on top of images, so they serve better as background images. Is there a name for such technique? Or is it up to me with trial and error in Photoshop ? Thanks for any help!
I'm trying to identify a font of which I don't even have an image, only a very distinct memory. I remember it having seen used in technical charts of about the 1950s / 1960s, e.g. diagrams describing the NASA satellite and moon missions. It is sans-serif, all caps, or actually more all small-caps since the letters tend towards a square aspect ratio more typical of small letters. The letters have a very clean appearance with no ornaments, none or almost no variation in line width, straight line ends, and a clear rhythm (without being monospaced). The weight is medium to bold. Does anyone have an idea what I'm talking about? Update: Thanks to JennaDesign who found an image containing the font: What I was thinking of is the font used in the bold labels in the lower part of the image in all small-caps, "mission", "edition", "date". Comparing with the title of the document "flight plan", it appears now as if the other labels are actually the small letters of a small caps font, whose large letters are used in the title. Does someone know what this font is?
I'm designing a logo inspired by the MDN logo. My logo (inside the green zone) has nothing to do with the "dinosaur" logo of Mozilla. So the question is about the frame and the arrangement of the letters (IJK in my case). Is it plagiarism if my logo looks similar to an existing one?
I am working on an invitation for print and have been coming up short with a good way to incorporate text into the piece. Here is the background I am working with: What I am trying to do is place text into the "free" space below the seal, but I haven't been able to find any good examples for incorporating text into a background with dots like this. I tried simply carving out a space for the text, but that looked too unnatural. I also tried placing another seal/ribbon to contain the text, but that cluttered the page too much and I really want the focal point to be the seal. The text will be a quote/verse that is meant to compliment the rest of the piece. Does anybody have any suggestions or examples where text has been worked into a pattern like this? Are there any standards or general guidelines for something along these lines? Thank you!
I have an image of a map of a certain region, and I want to show the map divided to about 1000 small pieces. This should be a metaphor of dividing the region to many small land-plots. I need two types of division: A vertical division - all division lines are vertical but with randomly varying intervals. An arbitrary division - irregular division lines, that should give the impression of an anarchic (not planned) division of the land. I looked for smashing effects in gimp, but found effects of broken glass, which does not fit in this context (it is not glass that is broken here, it is land). I also found some tutorials that require me to draw the smashing lines myself, which is a lot of work since there are many pieces here. I am looking for an automatic way to create random, irregular division lines. Thanks!
I would like to draw a sequence of about 100 vertical lines, with random intervals. Is this possible with gimp?
I'm trying to learn modeling in Maya at Digital-tutors and I'm stuck at one point. I'm modeling an aircraft and made half of it and then mirror imaged. In the tutorial there is no problem, but with mine there is a line at the center of the plane and when I do some changes like extrude, that line is opening.
Steps to Recreate: Create a Rectangle without a fill but with a stroke (Empty rectangle) Select "Smart Guides" & "Snap To Point" from the View Menu. Select the "Line Segment" tool from the toolbar and draw two diagonal lines joining the opposite points of the Rectangle (Make sure the anchor points get snapped to the pointer) You will get a similar image. Now select everything you've drawn, and select "Divide" option in the "Pathfinder" toolbar, in-order to separate the shape into 4 segments. But now you'll also be getting the following artifacts on the four corners resulting due to the corner anchor points not being joined. If you now use the "Direct Selection" tool and drag one corner point outwards, you'll see it has been correctly divided into 4 smaller shapes, but I would like the overlapping points to be joined in four corners. Note: If I try to join them by selecting all the points in 1 corner, it complains about them not being on the same shape, which is also correct since I used "Divide". Question: My question is, how to I join these points that are perfectly overlapped, but when they belong to different paths? Additional Information: I've already tried the "Average" -> "Join" workaround. Still get the same error. "To join, you must select two open endpoints. If they are not on the same path, they cannot be on text paths nor inside graphs, and if both of them are grouped, they must be in the same group."
I'm doing layout design, pro bono stuff for my uni, and I haven't done much designing lately. But back when I did my high school newspaper I remember what I was told: your pictures must be in .tiff format. Now why is .tiff so favored by print? As a person who is not professionally involved in graphic design, I would say that it's the resolution that counts (the bigger the better, since that way I don't loose the quality when resizing). Because what good will a 400x400 tiff image be if I need it to be 10x10 cm big? In the end it would still be pixelated, right? So what's so special about .tiff? Because the color information?
I have two .indd files, one with a typical chapter text and the other with references in alphabetical order. I want to include a specific name to reference my references (instead of a Paragraph number or the whole Paragraph text), so I create a Hyperlink destination with Text Anchor = "Socrates, 5 a.c.". Then I go to the text and place a cross reference, I choose the reference in the other .indd file and use the "Text Anchor Name" to be displayed. For some strange reason, I get displayed an empty reference [], and even in the Hyperlinks window, the cross reference name is empty. I can see the : symbol on the reference, marking that there is a hyperlink destination there. And for some reason, sometimes I edit the anchor and save straight away and then everything works and it is displayed correctly. But sometimes I cannot make it work no matter what I try... What can be the reason? === EDIT: The two files will be part of the same book of course. In case my explanation is not clear: I am just putting a cross reference from one file to the other. But when I place the reference (Anchor Text) te text is empty. I am using Indesign CS4 if it is of any importance. === EDIT 2: I can put cross references between files, this is not a problem. I have done it many times and it works perfectly. The only problem is when I "display" the reference. If I use the option "Paragraph Number" or "Paragraph Text" or any other, it works fine. When I use "Anchor Text" it prints nothing. === EDIT 3: I haven't used the book command, but the files are not in a book yet and it is not actually what I need. What I want is to put a cross reference (as I have done with sections, figures, etc) but instead of printing the "Paragraph Number", which works fine, printing the "Anchor Text" which prints a blank space - even though I have created a "Hyperlink Destination" and create an Anchor Text Name. So this is what I have done: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1030649 but the Anchor Text is not showed (however it shows the Pararaph Text, Paragraph Number or any other option I select) === EDIT 4: Yes, the Definition originally showed "<txtAnchrName />" and I change it to: <txtAnchrName /> === EDIT 5: This image can help to see what it is happening. The link is actually there. I can print Paragraph Name, Paragraph Text, Page number.. anything. Except the Text Anchor Name, which appears empty. However, if I edit the hyperlink destinations I can see it there. If I hold on the link as suggested in a comment I get: "name_of_the_file.indd Page:10 Text Anchor Name Source text:14" === EDIT 6: For some reason I have found something that seems to work (most of the time, but not always): 1. I highlight the text in the references.indd (f ex "Socrates") and add the hyperlink. 2. I insert the cross reference in chapter.indd, with text anchor and it shows empty. 3. I go back to references, place the cursor at the beginning of the paragraph (without highlighting anything), edit the hyperlink, left marked "set to current..." and Save. 4. Go back to chapter and I see the cross reference panel alerts with the yellow "!" that there was a change. Update and ready. This tedious process works most of the times but not always.
I saw this image and loved the shadow effect and assumed it is made on Photoshop. It reminds me of old airbrush like in art deco posters. It is not even and it looks maybe like a brush tool setting (maybe spatter?). Can someone tell me if there is a relatively simple way of doing this on Photoshop CS6, as I am a beginner? Thanks
I created a png with a 10% opacity in photoshop. It looks perfect on my laptop and phone. However when I checked it on another person's monitor you could barely see the image. Then when I checked it on my tablet you could not see the image at all. I guess it has something to do with the settings of the monitors? I dont know where to start debugging this. Any direction would be appreciated. In the above image you can clearly see the faded girl. On some monitors and my tablet she doesnt show.
Is there a way to export large multi-layered Illustrator file to Photoshop? When I export with preserve layers and text edit-ability, the complex layers are flattened. I've reorganized my layers to have simple groupings but that's time consuming. Is there a more effective way of doing this? Or script to automate it?
I'm sorry if this is a noob question. I use photoshop a lot, but not illustrator. Do you draw these manually? or is there a filter for this? Do you use a separate software like 3d studio max or mathematica?
I need to make a sprite. I was instructed to make one layer an editable layer and another layer that is a flattened bitmap layer. Any instructions on how to do this would be appreciated.
I am looking to create a site for a musician so some eye catching logo for their band is in order. I want to just do a script type, calligraphy type, if you will, version of the band name. I'm fairly good with Photoshop, but I haven't done anything like this and can't find any tutorials. I'm probably not wording the question correctly, so the picture below is an example of what i'm trying to achieve. It's not just a font, it's like calligraphy on a computer. Any ideas on how to do something like this? Like I said, I may not be typing in the right search terms to find what I want so if this has been asked or a tutorial is out there, if you could kindly point me to that, I would be very grateful. Thanks!
I'm using Walkway bold on a project, and am looking for some nice fonts for the titles. Walkway is sort of formal and stylistic to me, and nostalgic of the 1920's. I'm looking for fonts that go well with it for a crowd funding website.
I'm really not much of a graphic designer at all (programmer) but I have dabbled in some image editing using GIMP and Inkscape. Here's my situation: I have a nice, sharp image of my logo as an SVG file in Inkscape. However, when I try exporting it as a smaller raster image (PNG) the picture loses quality and becomes blurry. I've tried changing settings and whatnot, but I've been unsuccessful in saving sharp, smaller images. Here's the logo SVG file in question: Here's a link to the same image exported as a smaller png: Any help would be much appreciated.
I have this image which I wish to mask out the propellers properly. I thought maybe Refine Edge would do the work but it didn't success. I would like to know what kind of tools I probably should use in order to achieve this.
Why is the combination of Blue/Green/Yellow/Red squares or letters such a popular scheme used in many logos of tech companies? The popular examples being the Windows Flag icon, Google logo and the Google Chrome logo, CMake logo (triangle), Ebay logo etc..
When I use the move tool (when I move some object in the layer) I don't have the borders (dotted rectangle) around the moving object like here in this picture: How can I turn borders on so every time I start to move the object they appear? This is in my Photoshop no dotted lines around the object when I move it.
I did about an hour's work on a Smart Object (an image I had placed in a file). I saved the smart image and closed it, but the changes did not appear on the original. I opened the Smart Object again, and it opened without any of the changes I had just made. Some further research seems to suggest that this is because the original file was a .jpg, so when I saved my modified the file and saved it as a psd all my changes were lost, since Photoshop only checks the original .jpg for changes. Is there a way of recovering my work? What is the location of the Temporary Items directory?
I'm trying to figure out what is the font that the word 'BEST' is. If anybody has any idea that would be helpful. I've tried font recognition, but not coming back with any results. Thanks in advance!
I am designing new business cards for employees and many of them have several credentials after their name. To make them all "fit" do I bring the entire name and credential line down a point or can I just make the credentials a point smaller? Is there a rule to this?
I imported an image to Inkscape. Now I'd like to select all those regions that have the same (or to a certain degree similar) color. From this selection I'd like to draw a path (to which I can add a border or background color). I'd like to generate an object, that has the exact dimensions as a certain region in an Image. How can I do this with Inkscape? I couldn't find one of the functions above, but I'm sure there in a easy way to do this. EDIT: The answer by Takkat looked quite promising. Unfortunately, although I turned off all smothening options, the paths do not follow the colours precisely: Before: After: The same things are happening, when I use other scan-modes. I couldn't find an option that follows the border of the enlarged pixels,...
I'm trying to refine my ability to emulate a technique I see quite often on Dribbble and throughout the internet really. I think in some cases this is done via actual printing (letterpress, engraving etc) but it seems likely that this is often just executed digitally as well. A few examples are here: the maroon arrowhead area: Artist: Matthew Genitempo the shadow in the chief's neck / ear area: Artist: Patrick Moore Basically it's a way to emulate an uneven ink density that would come from printing a large run with a stamp or plate that is running dry. I'm assuming that this is achieved through some combination of texture scans and layer filters, but I'd love to find a tutorial of some sort. Of course, I've gone through some tutorials that pop up via a quick Google search but they usually utilize grain and noise filters and just end up looking way wayyy less convincing than the above examples.
I am creating an educational app that looks similar to an iPhone app using the default web stack composed of HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. I am wondering if it would be more user friendly/motivational to have awards like Apprentice/Expert or awards like Ruby/Diamond/Gold/Silver/Platinum based on the amount of practicing they have done ? I am also making iOS homescreen icons for these awards because they are displayed on a web page that looks like the iPhone homescreen, so which would be more practical and would be easier to understand ? I just want to know what would would transfer a better motivational/inspirational effect, as this website is aimed at kids/teens.
How can I add padding or margin easily when exporting drawing or selection to bitmap? What I've been doing is changing the width and x, y values when exporting but it's a lot of work when exporting many selections one by one.
Does anyone wanna share opinion on THIN fonts being used in mobile apps or even in websites? Is it the new trend. In early stages of iOS7 beta releases Sir Jonny Ive's team used Helvetia 45 Light but not to be found anymore. Wht happened? Did accessibility centric designers cornered them?
I want to copy a layer 77 times. How can I do this quickly to avoid repetitive work?
In the technical documentation of my application I want to split up the modules in different layers, e.g. (starting from the top): Reporting layer Business logic layer Volatile data layer Basic data layer Database layer A global image of the application will show all these layers, but I want specific documentation pages to also refer to the same colors. I want to have a separate color for each of the layers, sufficiently different to make it clear in separate documentation files what we are talking about (based on the color), but still enough pleasing to the eye so that the global image doesn't look ugly. The color scheme is not going to be used as a global color scheme throughout a web site, but just to indicate the different layers. Any suggestions?
most of the collab tools for drawing that I've seen so far cost too much, and lack features. GIMP does everything that I want, but unfortunately I don't know of a way to draw with 2 or more people over the internet. is there a plugin that will accomplish this?
Let's say I've made a custom brush in Illustrator (this example is stripped down, but it's enough to get the point across): The stroke starts at the bottom and loops around. There are two intersections, and if you're following the stroke, the layering is as you'd expect: Each intersection will have the newer part of the stroke go over the older part. But what if I wanted to alter the order of the stroke? I created an example of what I want to do below by outlining the stroke and adding drop shadows for emphasis: At the first intersection, the stroke goes over itself, but at the second intersection it goes underneath. Is it possible to achieve this without outlining the stroke first? If not, does other software allow for something like this? As an ancillary question, are there any known rules to how the layering works? Sometimes I've altered a curve and the order flips...very confusing.
Lately I've been noticing that I tend to draw while hunched over, with my face as close as possible to the page. I've been wondering if it's better to sit up straight, although when I do that, I can't see details as well (even when I'm wearing my glasses). Does it matter whether you hunch forward or sit up straight?
Does anybody know of a good tool or generator that allows me to create sprites, save the sprite set and be able to update the css sheet if i add new icons to the icon set? What i mean is this: Currently i have 100 icons. They all need to be made into sprites. Once they go into production, the CSS cannot change (meaning they have to stay in exactly the same location every time). However, I will be expected to update the icon set when I am required to add more. Does anyone know of anything that exists like this? I've tried a Photoshop extension (I cannot recall the name) that makes sprites from the layers in my photoshop file, but sadly it just didn't work and I kept hitting errors (presumably because I may have too many images that need to be turned into sprites). Any help is much much appreciated.
While surfing through some portfolio sites, I encountered something interesting. It was a portfolio site created by Robbie Manson. If you see the below image, you can see the dash line '-' between the navigation and the introduction of Robbie Manson. This is not the only time I see this kind of design, where simple dash line or dot that looks meaningless occupies the space. What is the effect of this kind of design?
I created paragraph style in one PSD file. After that I saved it to default styles and loaded it into another PSD file. How can I synchronize changes at all documents after updating just in one of them? I am using Photoshop CC.
I am new to Photoshop, please go easy if my question is unclear. I am trying to prepare an icon in Photoshop and I happened to see this. So I want a similar graphic but I want the each color area to be sightly smaller than the previous one (i.e., the outer line should be the circle as a whole but the inner side these should be slightly small from the previous one). I want to make the colors look more shiny (gradient) and icon itself look somewhat elevated (not like flat). So far I did it spending one day like below. But it was not at all fruitful. Though I could reach somewhat what I wanted, the overall shape is not good. When I integrated in the mobile app, it looks very ugly with poor clarity. :( To try creating this, I have drawn a circle with blue color, and later on copied the layer and decreased the new layer's circle a bit with Ctrl + T and filled it with green color and so on, later deleting the unwanted areas with pen tool. As you can see, the circles I have drawn are bent and blurry.
I seem to have a strange problem. In InDesign, in the master page (right side / odd numbered pages) I have a simple graphic, but when I delete it using ctrl+shift+click Delete, another one is automatically generated. If I do the same on the left side, it's all fine. For now I have just turned the colour to page colour (white). Anyone know if there is a solution to this or is it just a glitch? All my other files are fine.
Is there a way to hide the pasteboard in Illustrator CS5 so I only see whats in the Artboard area?
I am trying to use an android star icon (.png) and color it in red. Basic, right? Well. I did the color change after some research (just download Gimp 2) from an iOS icon because it has the ideal size 64*64 but it resulted in small legs drooling from the star lowest spikes once displayed on the Android device. So now I am fighting to do the same from an Android icon (a little smaller but why not?). So far I have achieved a nice result. BUT it is pink not the deep red I wanted and obtained before. So we figured it was due to an existing transparency of the star. We tried to add layer to change it, inverse layering, copy paste it, color the result but nothing, the results are always pink. To resume : from iOS icon : color perfect but strange shaping effects versus from android icon : shape perfect (even if smaller) but color pinky or transparent How can I "remove" the transparency that might be in the initial .png ? Edit : I just try drawing stars with Inkscape, the result is not okay :D I have the same small "legs" :( Edit : Several picture of my different test : Test 1 : android icon re-colored with still the transparency --> pink color as a result. Test 2 : I follow your advice and get this : Test 3 : I tried to use anti aliasing filter but there is little difference : My work blocks imgur so I cannot see if all uploaded ok.
I would like to print a Polaroid like image that is 336x407 mm big. What size is that in pixel and what PPI should I use?
I'm a bit concerned as my outputted PDF from InDesign CS5 looks different on Mac. This has happened a few times. It seems as though sometimes the Mac does not draw the new version of the PDF, which I have always assumed is because of a Solid State Drive (SSD). I'm not 100% sure this is correct, but I guess I can rename a document to find out. Does anyone know of any other reason as to why this may happen? Sometimes it seems as though parts of the PDF update but other parts don't. Sometimes when I export from Illustrator CS5 it shows all of the layers even the turned off layers. I'm really concerned that one day a printer will print it in an odd condition.
I have a huge grid of icons that need to be positioned so that I can write sprites out of them after I'm done. Right now, I have so many layers, it'd take me forever to click on each one individually and specify the coordinates exactly. Is there an easy way or a script that allows me to specify in pixels how far apart each icon should be from one another both horizontally and vertically (thereby creating a nice little grid for me with solid values without decimals) ?
The programs that I am mainly interested in is Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator (create vector art), Adobe Flash (for animation), Adobe Premiere Pro (edit video), Adobe After Effects (VFX/motion graphics), Adobe Dreamweaver (code HTML/CSS). But can boil down to a video editing software, graphics software and photo editing software. I understand alternatives such as Inkscape is like Illustrator, Blender is a good substitute for Adobe Flash. Notepad++ for Dreamweaver but if you haven't noticed, these programs are from different companies. What I do appreciate about Adobe is under the master collection, I get all these programs, but I don't appreciate the price (because I can't afford) or the subscription model (I like to buy once and forget) they now have. I have searched online and can't find something that packs in programs such as Adobe, even if it's just a photo editing software and vector software. I found Corel Draw, but I'm so confused if they provide a master collection (collection of their software for a price) that will satisfy my needs. Is there an alternative to Adobe Creative Suite for designers/enthusiast?
I am starting out with Maya and just moved my object up to reveal a mystery grey wireframe which I can't work out what it is at all. It appears I can't select or interact with it at all. I have been playing predominantly with UV Maps, potential cause? What is it? And how can I hide/remove it?
I converted a 256px ico file to a 256px png so I could edit it in Photoshop. The problem I'm having is once I'm done in Photoshop, I save the png image, go to IcoFX and convert the 256px png to a ico file, but it shrinks the ico image down to 32px. Why is this?
I recently came to know that photoshop doesn't give much clarity on resizing as it saves on rectangle pixels and even my work was wasted due to that even, because whatever images I prepared, they look ugly on mobile devices. So, I started working with illustrator and thought to practice some icons. Have tried to prepare this icon, but failed because I am unable to achieve that bevel look instead of flat look and even I am getting outlines on shapes as shown below . Can someone please tell me how to achieve this kind of accentuating look and bubble type even? I don't need the twisting end, but trying to achieve the triangle end as in my pic. Trying to achieve this: I know this would have copyright issues. But I am not using it. Just want to practice. My result:
I wanted to put the text inside the triangle path. I tried but the text is not guite readable. I want something like on picture I provided.
Im using Gimp to resize images. When using a high res image normally 4500 x 2994 i usually need to shrink this image to 325 x 130 pixels. As you can imagine i loose the shiny, glossy and high res quality oof the image. Ive tried to save the image as .bmp and then resize it, this has made a slight difference but not a considerable change. What else can i do to ensure i retain the hi-res quality of the image? Thanks to anyone who helps.
I was wondering how you would create something like this: Source: orlybeauty.com As you can see, there is a shadow in the bottom left, which gets lighter as you move diagonally to the top right. There is also a fleck of white added, which is very easy to apply. I had a go myself, using a linear gradient, with about 75% opacity either side and nothing in the centre. It didn't work!
I am trying to create the effect posted in this image. How can this can be created?
I want to give the middle full opacity but let the border effect that is already existing.
What is this technique called: http://dribbble.com/shots/260469-Squirrel-Construct See how the image is the result of overlapping many circles to create the final drawing. Parts of the circles overlap with each other to form the desired figures. Here is another example: http://dribbble.com/shots/904051-Puffin Do you know any good tutorial for learning this technique? I've been searching, but since I don't know what the technique is called, I've had no luck at all.
I hope someone can help me. I am creating packaging for a client, and I decided to create the file bigger than the die line. So the dieline lets say is 11x9.5 inches and I just scaled the vector dieline bigger in my photoshop file to be able to work on a bigger canvas. I did this because i was editing alot of illustration drawings and wanted to be able to copy and paste them into different projects in the future without losing quality. I figured once I would be done with the project I could always change the size of the document and image to the correct size for the client. So now it's done, but I have alot of problems! When I change the image size, alot of the effects, strokes and gradients are changing from the original design! I tried to create the whole layer into a smart object but the gradient mask I created also changed from the original design. The client wants the file in the 11.5x9 cm plus a 1/8 inch bleed format, and currently my design looks like this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/zxvf2fyak77mu7s/Screenshot%202013-11-29%2018.28.31.png Can someone please help on how to get this document scaled down? I would really appreciate it!
I've designed a perspective view in which i show off my business card design. To make it realistic I want to use lightning conditions effectively. In some Cards I they use beautiful frosted glossy reflections. here I'm giving you a link of an image. You will then understand what I need to know. Check Out this: http://uflix.co.in/reflection.png UPDATE: Currently I use Photoshop CS6 and here is what I've done till now: http://uflix.co.in/my-reflection.png I need perfect visual appeal to my cards' design.
I'm creating a booklet in QuarkXpress and I have it set up for automatic pagination, but on some of the pages I want to make my own pagination (move to next column or next page). I used to be able to use the shortcut of cmd+option+return and it would do this. Now this doesn't seem to work. Is there another way without having to put in a number of returns or shortening my text box?
I would like to convert a scanned signature to a vector file. Specifically, I'd like to obtain a clean, small SVG, like Barack Obama's signature on Wikipedia. It consists solely of paths with no fill and a black stroke of width 1.4. Here is an example scanned signature. I've tried the tracing functionality built into Inkscape 0.48 and Illustrator CS6 but was only able to obtain paths with anchors at the boundaries, plus fill and no stroke. Needless to say, the resulting SVG is not clean (path has varying width) and it's size is roughly four times that of the Obama signature. Do any tools exist that can decently trace a scanned signature/line art as strokes, not as paths? If not, how would I go about creating the strokes manually with the pen tool in Illustrator?
I've got a line art drawing of a dragon that I'm trying to color. I don't necessarily care if I use Illustrator, Photoshop, or Sketchbook Pro; I'm just trying to figure out the best way to color the drawing. I created the line art image in Illustrator. I know to use live paint and live paint bucket for contained lines, but how do I easily 'fill' in areas, like the fur on the chest, that isn't a fillable object? I know how to do it the painful way, i.e. duplicate the lines, complete them to create a closed container, and then fill that container...but ugh, takes forever. -----EDIT----New Information---- So probably the coloring I'm looking for is 'cel shading' style: Artist: Raijin-Pooch Also, the line art was done in two stages. In the first step I used (accidentally) a calligraphy brush that, when I turned on live paint, dumped out to simple line art. I then had to do a bunch of touch-ups, and those were done with a line art brush, so they're thicker. Hence the 'poor' quality. I'm certainly open to suggestions--I'm new to the digital illustration world. I've got a ton of experience with PS/AI, just not in this particular space!
This is my best attempt at painting so far. I'm trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong. I can pinpoint a line on the chin that doesn't look good or is a little unrealistic. The thing is, I can see many things I'm not happy with and also I think it still looks unfinished. Now, I could spend 4 hours wandering where the problems are but it'd be far more helpful to me if anyone could pinpoint the faults and provide some advice to improve them. I meant for the light source to be a spotlight that is a little bit(?) far away. Any advice about how the lighting (shadows and highlights) could be improved would also help me a great deal. My main question though, is how can I make this painting look more realistic? The first image is how it looked when I posted the question, and the second is how it looks now. 1.2.
This is a Photoshop question. I created a rectangle in a layer. Then I copied it and moved it until it touched the first one along an edge. I would like to be able to stroke each rectangle individually. However, when I select one path and then stroke it, the stroke goes around the outside of the two rectangles together, and the edge along which they touch is not stroked. How can I stroke each independently?
I need to add extended characters (š,č,ř,ž,ě) to a font. I can do this in Photoshop, but can you please recommend me a program that has this functionality + can save it as a font that I can use on the web? Thanks and sorry for a dumb question.
I'm a programmer, not a designer. I'm handy with a graphics program as long as it doesn't require artistic abilities. However, I'm not sure about the correct terminology. I'm working with Adobe Illustrator 9. I have several files, provided by client, that I need to prepare for use in a PHP PDF creator (TCPDF). I'm saving as version 3 .ai files. One of the files has a line through the text. The text has been converted to outlines. The line is a stroke with no fill. A clipping mask is used to hide any excess line. Here is what it should look like. And this is what it looks like inside the PDF that TCPDF created. Apparently, TCPDF doesn't understand the clipping mask. TCPDF supports up to version 8, but that makes a bigger file. I tried version 8, just to see, and get the same results. So how do I convert this to individual paths that TCPDF can understand? I could do it manually by cutting the line into pieces, outlining the stroke, and then adjusting the shape to fit the letters. But is there an easier way? In this case, it probably wouldn't be too hard. But I am going to have to prepare a variety of graphics and will likely run into some more complicated masks.
I have an email template that's done in Photoshop for a weekly newsletter. It's sliced up and the only parts that stay the same are the header and the footers, the height of the email is always different. What would be the best way to just change the middle part when creating a new email, leaving the top and the bottom as an asset? Should they just sit in separate PSD files and then be combined after it's saved to HTML?
I'm working on a calendar. I have a grid of rectangle shapes that outline the days. I'm trying to make a different adjustment layer for each day applied to a background. It's basically working fine. But once I create the adjustment layer, the region it applies to is fixed -- because I used the shape as a selection. I'd like to be able to create a layer with a vector shape on it that has an adjustment associated with it that I can move around. Here is what I'm doing now: Select the rectangle shape (day) I want. Go to paths palette and convert to selection. Go back to layers palette, select the background layer, create new adjustment layer, and do the adjustment. What would be cool is if I decide I want to move that day box around, I still could. Edit What I would like to have is a vector defined region where an adjustment layer applies. For instance, suppose I have an image on one layer. I have an empty rectangle on another layer. I want to apply an adjustment ONLY where the vector is. This is because I want to have ANOTHER rectangle with a DIFFERENT adjustment. Suppose one rectangle enhances reds and the other greens, I would like to be able to move them around.
I created this letterhead for a client in Illustrator and it got approved. It now needs to get converted to a Word document for internal usage. What's the best way to make this conversion?
We've got a large indesign file that several people are dipping in and out of on several machines, to do this we've got the indd file and the /images folder that it references in a shared Dropbox folder. This all works fine, BUT all the image links are broken, when i look at the paths for the links they are using the absolute paths so they are something like this User/sam/Dropbox/lorem/images/image.jpg But on other peoples machines they A) have a different name so their path looks like this User/John.. or they dont have their Dropbox folder in their user root directory. Seeing as the indd file also resides in the /lorem folder is there a way to get indesign to use relative paths to the images so instead of that long absolute string it would be something like /images/image.jpg We are using indesign CC - v.2015.1
Is tracing/vectorizing furniture (everything in my home) for commercial use in violation of copyright? How can designers make arrows, buttons, tiles, etc. that maybe accidentally copied? I have button ideas but I worry I maybe accidentally copy.
I am looking to design many unique study cards, with text and some images on the front and back, to be printed on a professional digital press. Right now, I have the material in a table, with one row per card to be printed. My question is: what tool can I use to convert a long list of source material into mostly-laid-out cards? I may have to do some manual tweaking, but is there some tool to bulk-import these card lists into a layout document? Note that this is a different problem than a mail merge or greeting-card run, because each of the cards I am making is unique, in a set of about 1000. I don't want the same card 1000 times; rather, I want to bulk-import many unique cards and then adjust by hand.
In Gimp, how can I multiply the value of every pixel in a grayscale image by a constant value? For example, multiply each pixel by 2.
I'm a graphic artist digital and print/front-end designer and developer. Recently I was approached by a friend to design cover art for his book. He had informed me he couldn't offer me a payment but would offer credit towards my work within his book. I don't mind doing the work as a favor however I wanted to ask for royalties on books sold. As I am new to licensing artwork i'm not sure what to charge for royalties or what steps I need to take to protect my artwork. Any advice or information on how to proceed within this dilemma would be greatly appreciated.
I am using Apple Pages to write a user guide and would like to insert screenshots of my app. Inserting the screenshots is no problem. How can I annotate the screen shots like Apple did it in the iPhone user guide on page 8, which is basically drawing a line to specific regions of the screenshot and putting some text at the end of the line? Is this even possible directly in Apple Pages or would I need to add the lines and annotation text using another program?
I saw a video of a Morgan Freeman Finger Painting on YouTube. Could this be a real video showing how someone actually created that painting? I think it's fake. I think he started with a photo, then kept mucking it up with finger painting until you end up with a blank screen, basically making this video in reverse. Edit: Original photo of Morgan Freeman
I've only ever done 3D work for educational purposes. Now I need to do some for work and not sure what exactly constitutes commercial in this realm. We manufacture two pieces of architectural equipment. If we model the equipment to put in the Google SketchUp Warehouse so architects/contractors have free access to them is that considered commercial use? This is the TOS from SketchUp Make (the new name for the free version): Trimble Navigation Limited and/or its affiliates ("Trimble") gives you a personal, worldwide, royalty-free, non-assignable and non-exclusive license to use the executable version of the Software for non-commercial use only. Non-commercial use means: you may not sell, rent, lease or lend the output of the Software or the Services. If you are a for-profit organization of any kind, or an employee of a for-profit organization using the Software or Services in that capacity, you are engaged in commercial activity; therefore, in order to use the Software and Services, you must purchase a SketchUp Pro license. I'm certainly not selling, renting or leasing any output. I have no idea what "lend the output" means. Is giving away an object for free considered "lending?"

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