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What distinguishing characteristics apply to the concept art industry that separate it from from other related fields of graphic art, design, and illustration? What are the unique educational elements specifically well suited to this industry?
I need to apply an inner shadow effect to some text in InDesign, which works fine. But I also need to apply a stroke to the text, but the effect is also being applied to the stroke ( unlike in photoshop). How can I apply a text effect to the text but not the stroke?
When exporting a document created in InDesign which has A4 selected under File > Document Setup > Page Size into a .pdf by using File > Export > Adobe PDF (Print) format and use the default 'High Quality' profile, the created file is US Letter for some reason. I couldn't find any option other than the document setup that would control the .pdf export in terms of proportions/page size.. but does anyone know how I can export that document as a proper A4 .pdf?
When I design a logo, can I use a font that was included in my OS? That I downloaded for free? I'm perhaps less concerned with wordmarks than with other types of logos.
Currently we receive CMYK TIF/TIFF images of photographs from our design agency (who get them from the photographer). Our in-house designers then place them in InDesign for posters and magazines, or convert them to RGB to be used on the website or in newsletters or presentations. I'm wondering what's the point of taking a photograph, then converting it to a CMYK TIF/TIFF (with HUGE filesize) before placing it in InDesign, and maybe converting it back to RGB for screen-use? I mean, the photograph is RGB anyway, and InDesign can use colour profiles too. So, if InDesign is assigned the correct profile (from the printing press) why convert the images to CMYK beforehand? Wouldn't it be a much wiser choice to save the retouched images as PNG (which is lossless)? The print designer would then place the image in InDesign and then, when the document is done, export to CMYK using the correct profile. Whereas the web designer would take the image, resize it into the correct format and save it as a JPG. Advantages: Immensely reduced file sizes One conversion less On-screen viewing can be done by anyone without them getting off colours because their viewer doesn't support CMYK 8-bit transparency Also, I'm not entirely sure if our design agency actually uses the press profile our printers use because the agency is in a completely different country. Am I missing something crucial here?
I've been trying to find tutorial on to make android icons as for the 2.0+/3.0+ specifications. I've found some based on the old 1.x specs but these are quite outdated. Does anyone have anything out there for this? I'm a developer that is trying to make some Android apps and would like to improve the visual appeal of my products. I've been making all the resources myself with good progress but I'd like to go further.
I have a complex vector graphic with overlapped shapes and I've been looking for a View mode that allows me to see only the paths. I guess it's called wire view or path view, but I can't find that option.
This to go in a tab. The other tabs show quite separate groups the user might find interesting. This tabs contains all of them. I've thought about writing "ALL" (capitals seemed more recognisable in this case), but there are icons for all other things, and it makes it harder to translate the application. Another thought was three checked checkboxes on top of each other, but that seems more like a form to fill in.
I saw a hard copy of the symbol in the lower left corner of this image and I'm trying to find either a higher resolution version or a vector graphics version. I need something that will look good when sized to fill a coffee mug. Alternatively, does anyone know what the name for that symbol is so I can do the search for myself? BTW: I don't have much at all in the way of tools for this. As a result, the cost of solutions that involve more than downloading a file (e.g. removing the other hands from that image) will include the code of finding, installing and learning any needed software. I'm willing to spend some effort if need be, but I have more patience than free time.
I am trying to evaluate Adobe Indesign for my needs. In this regards, I asked https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6164612/generate-a-catalog-for-print-and-web I looked at the tutorial posted in the answer and it appears to be everything I need. However, I would like the functionality to be available through a console because, the idea is to eliminate user involvement as much as possible. Does any one know if this is possible? I tried to look at the adobe documentation but they are all geared towards creating plugins which are run from inside Adobe Indesign. There is also a server edition of Indesign, but I could not understand if it has what I need or not. Thanks.
I'm trying to export certain visible layers to png in photoshop cs5 using the "export layers to files" script, but all it does is make a copy of the psd in a new tab and freeze. I tried in cs4 and cs5. Are there any considerations I need to be aware of?
I'm wanting to print a 300 DPI brochure, but my first attempt at making it fell short of the proper resolution, so I am having to remake it. I've already printed my business cards, which were 1125x675 at 300 DPI, and they have the same picture on it that I want in the brochure. I was thinking about the different ways to get the brochure the correct resolution (remaking it completely or just resizing it,) but I noticed that the picture wasn't quite the same. It's comprised of 12-15 layers that are difficult to replicate because I made a lot of level, saturation, etc. adjustments. I decided then to simply remake it, importing the business card's picture as a layer to use as a reference for what my end result should look like. I pasted in the flattened picture from my business card and then resized the layer... from 1125x675 to 2245x1347 (nearly twice the size)... and much to my surprise, it looks just fine, so I'm contemplating just going with that resized picture. Is this generally considered acceptable practice, or is it at least acceptable in this case since it still looks good? Here's what the resized image looks like (upper-left corner) : http://www.solarcoordinates.com/images/brochure1_interior_5_spacing.png
I have a shape layer with a stroke (currently applied using a layer effect), and I would like to convert that to a shape layer that has two components, the shape and the stroke, both represented by paths. My motivation for this is wanting to be able to resize my shape using free transform, and have the stroke resize with it, as if the stroke really is part of that shape. At the moment the stroke thickness holds constant while I resize the shape, so that when I make the shape smaller, the stroke becomes relatively large and out of proportion.
I'm looking for some inspiration flip through. What are some places that you visit for business card examples or galleries?
I need a tool to replace all pixels having a specific color with another color.. So basically a brush that works only with pixel having a specific color. thanks
Anyone know a good tutorial for learning to do 16x16 icon? The PROBLEM is when I'm doing in photoshop or illustrator and export the image in that size have like a transition effect. Example : black-> grey pixel -> white Not sure if I should do pixel art...The only thing I want is create a black and white icon, no transition color. Thanks in advance
In my daunting table of market numbers, seconds-by-seconds price changes in the Bid, Ask, and Last columns are highlighted for the user. Highlighting happens when the page is refreshed: click the refresh button to see, or toggle the auto/man button to select auto-refresh. The highlighting seems to me amateur (hey! that's me!) and clunky. And garish! Can you suggest a "nicer" -- more pleasing, artistic, unobtrusive -- design to achieve the effect? Are the highlighting colors not right? Thanks!
I am asked to put three specified colors together to form a pie chart, a colorful ring, some colorful diamonds and etc. Those three colors together are really ugly. Are there any tricks to make it more pretty? PS: Those three colors are: #99CC00 #0164C2 #000000 Meanwhile, I promise I am way beyond the age of receiving a homework.
HI All - I am a Coldfusion developer with over 2 and half years of experience. I have some experience with Javascript, jquery and sql. I was thinking to learn Web designing too in my free time. What are the responsibilities of a Web designer? Does it involve converting a PSD to HTML/CSS. Should a web designer be good at graphic designing too? Thanks..
Following this answer, I've tried to make rounded corners with dashed stroke, but the output is blurry. Is there any method to make a sharp dashed stroke in Photoshop?
I'm a software/web developer and recently we've been working with a graphic designer that lives in another state, so the contact with the client falls into my responsibility in all aspects, and one of those is gathering requirements that have to do with the website's design. We've done some projects, but the distance is a little problematic for some clients and I've detected that this has to do with the initial requirement gathering (we can take care of minor graphic details, such as backgrounds, textures, photos, etc.), but for one project the designer actually had to redo the whole design from scratch. The designer is very good, and I personally don't have problems when working with him remotely; in addition I haven't had any luck with local designers, so I want to make the most of this situation. Given the context, my question is: when going with the client for the first time, what should I ask to grasp a complete sense of what the client wants? Some stuff I already ask is: Are there any other websites you want us to take as a reference of what you want yours to look like? Do you have any pamphlets or corporate image related material you want us to base our design on? What is your target audience? Thanks in advance.
I have a large image. It will be better if I can split it into m columns by n rows of smaller images. Is there a free software to split a PNG image into some smaller images?
I'd like to make a linear background gradient that I can scale using the same tools I would for a vector shape (ie. transform). Is this possible? How? Note, if I create a layer style gradient it spans the entire canvas which I do not want, further in order to edit it I need to adjust the stop points in the gradient editor which is imprecise as it's based on percentages. I want a vector gradient that only spans half the canvas and which I can resize or snap to a guideline without pixelating/banding the way a raster gradient would when streched.
In order to produce a video like this... http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1rjWQH/www.youtube.com/watch%253Fv%253Ddv4j4bguYYk What tool would you use? Flash? Or there's a better tool? Thanks
What could be good graphic icons for using with "Appreciate this Post" & "Follow updates on this post" in a social web application? Thanks a lot for your suggestions.
I want to use Serif font Georgia. Which Sans Serif fonts go well with Georgia. I am using Impact for my Logo. Can some one help in identifying a good Sans Serif font that can go well with Headers mainly.
I want this but so it adjusts to sizes entered in a form on a webpage in fairly normal HTML/CSS: Way back in the 1990's you could show the proportions of a box in 3D using VRML and have the controls adjustable with nice sliders/text entry fields. It also would not take all day to work out. The box could be lit and you could see it in perfect 3D at any angle. A decade on and I am stumped as to how best to represent a simple box with relative proportions. I want something that will work in all browsers. How hard can a box be?
I have an image. Below is a small representation of the real image's layout. The dimenstions of my image are 600px × 449px, and The dimensions for the inner secion of my image are 541px × 341px. I want the dimensions for the inner section of my image to be 320px × 240px. I want to know how much I would have to shrink the whole image, both width and height (aspect ratio is not important) in order to make the inner section have the dimensions of 320px × 240px. I would be grateful if you could tell me how to calculate this and/or calculate it yourself as well as tell me how much to shrink the width, and how much to shrink the height.
I have a white screen area 142x113 px in Photoshop. I select half of this area and tried Select ⇒ Modify ⇒ Smooth but it does not work the way I expected. I tried decreasing the selection's width and now the Smooth command works, but not very well. I have 3 questions: Why smooth does not work in the first condition? What are the best ways for creating smooth edges (rounded corners) of a selection? What are the best ways for creating smooth edges (rounded corners) of a Layer?
I have some colors on paper whose specified color formats differ from the well-known web color formats. They begin with a letter of color then numbers which specify contrast like R143 R111 R100. R letter specify Red and others are same like G111 and Y121 are green and yellow What is the name of this format? How can I translate it into well-known color formats?
I have come up with a Basic Design for my web app. I want to use the Red color as it helps induce apetite. Well while designing i have managed to get the basic layout and design directions going. But messed up with the colors and as u can see have used blacks etc :( I tried to brain storm as to how to make the layout more appealing having red as the main color. Could some one give me a few pointers as to how to go about it. Image:
I want to split up the terrain.png image from Minecraft to use in some projects. Is there a quicker way to split the image than selecting each 16x16px section and copy-pasting the sections into new files? Here is an example:
this question is targeted at people who understand something about fourier transform and the image pyramid. Is there some plugin for photoshop that allows me to edit only a particular frequency band of a layer? for example, sometimes you have an image that looks quite alright in the details but you have some low-frequency gradient going over the whole image that you'd like to get rid of. it'd be great to decouple low and high frequencies of the image, edit only the low frequencies and then recomposite them again. hope you know what I mean and maybe you know a way to do this? thanks!
I know how to make a drop shadow from the effects panel but it is not useful for what i am trying to do. so i was wondering if anybody knew of an alternative to making drop shadows like this?
Possible Duplicate: Need help with the Color Combination for the Red Can some one help me to find a color that contrast the color Red HEX: cd0001 I am looking for something i dark rang of Grey, Black or Brown.. Its for a Food Photo website.
I am a developer and really need to get to grips with graphics. Even before settling on a specific tool, what I need is somewhere to go and learn how to do things, such as for instance a "save" icon. Problem is, I wouldn't know where to start and I am a total newbie in this regard. What is worse, googling without knowing pretty much anything on the subject isn't going to be really helpful, because, well, how can you tell good from bad? :) Ideally, it should be a set of tutorials "building" up from something simple, say a square with an X inside :), to more complex things, such as a saving disk or "better". I am saying the square with the x inside because, well, if I do it it's awful, but I've seen pretty good ones :) so I guess there might be a better way to it :D Do you know of any such place where I can start learning? Thank you for any suggestion! Andrea
I want to make an animation of cartoon characters. I do not want to draw them from scratch each time. I would like to use adobe illustrator because I believe that it will be the best for making separate arms legs etc that can be moved between frames. And that each frame is saved as an image to then be combined. Can someone outline the structure for such drawings and considerations that must be made?
I am trying to make a logo in Adobe Illustrator. On the logo I want to put the outline of a certain lake on it. I took a screenshot from google maps of the lake. How would I go about extracting this shape? Is there a function that will take advantage of the fact that the lake is all one color?
I want my image to have 60% transparency. How can I do this in gimp?
Is there a way to set the colorspace to sRGB in indesign? I remember doing this in indesign cs3 years ago and i can't recall how to do this for cs5.
I'm a web developer guy. I've got about zero artistic capability to create a design but I can take a design and create an amazing website out of it. I would like to find a graphic designer to create a design for my personal website but have no idea where to look for one. I've posted to elance but just get a bunch of generic replies from people who did not read my post at all. Another problem I have is I don't know how much the work I'm looking to get done should cost me. I know the quality of work the marketing company I work for charges people, but I can't afford 10k-30k for a design. I know things are not free in this world, and I am very willing to pay to have the work done, I just don't want to get ripped off myself. I just need the Photoshop file(s) for the design. What I'm looking for I've posted below. How much should something like this cost to have designed? Where is a good place to find qualified graphic designers? Would it be appropriate to ask for a quick sketch of a general layout (10 minutes to make type thing) before hiring a designer (I don't want work done for free, but I want to make sure its something I like before paying any money or having them do any real work)? I’m looking for an artist familiar with the Steampunk genre and who is familiar with designing websites. I am a web developer and am looking to create a unique personal website to showcase my skill set but do not have the artistic capability to do the graphical design work. I am willing to allow you tag or link or something identifying you as the artist/designer on the site in an un-obtrusive way if you wish. I am not looking for a typical web design with a menu on the top or side. I’m looking for something more unusual but still easy to navigate. The site’s structure will not deep deep, only 2 levels at most. I’m thinking of a menu landing page for each subpage or section. Clicking the item takes you there and clicking a separate element on that back will take you back to the menu and/or previous section. This site will be developed in html5 with javascript on a PHP platform. I would like the site to not use flash at all. For example http://www.jkrowling.com/ is a site that has a unique navigation style. It is in flash and if not anything that I am interested in design wise, but it gives you an idea of what I mean by unique navigation The site structure is: Landing Page Biography (About Me) Resume Projects (This need to take into account scrolling or paging through them) Individual project pages Images (Listing any number of galleries) Individual image pages I would like room for 2 additional pages/section on the main page (6 total) for future use. I’m thinking there should be no scrolling needed on the landing page. All page content should fit in an width of 950 pixels. Background elements and images can fill out beyond that up to 1900 in width (but does not need to the full 1900) the content will be displayed and as much of the background elements and images will be shown as the users browser will allow but will not use the scrollbars to see. I am looking to have a lot of user interaction on the site, i.e. when the mouse is over a gear, it will spin, Steam rising animation, bubbles moving, etc. This will all be done in javascript by me but to accomplish this I need the photoshop template to be broken out into layers, each gear on a separate layer, rising animation each frame being a layer, etc. Some design aspects that I like: This is an image of an existing site. I like the colors and general design elements that exist but would like elements elements to work with on my site. I do not like the layout of the overall site. http://blackmoondev.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/steampunk_design_dante_900.jpg I very much like the calendar in the bottom left of the following image. Something similar with layers for each month/day/hour so I could create a working calendar. Maybe something where the background is a separate layer so the image (the galaxy) could be changed out but the glass effect would still be there regardless of the background. http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs28/f/2008/094/c/b/3232design_steampunk_wallpaper_by_3232design.jpg Below are some old style documents I could see as background elements. I am thinking I would need the images as separate, higher resolution files. I could place them on the webpage but have them popup when a user clicks on them for a detailed view. The images need not be of anything real or particular. http://www.topdesignmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/712.jpg http://fc08.deviantart.com/fs39/f/2008/350/2/3/Steampunk_Odysseus_by_chrislazzer.jpg
I have this image in my website, is a png: I want to know if there is any way with HTML5, javascript or css to change the color of the image. Or at least make the image change to white (invert color black to white, not the transparency).
What does the difference look like? What is the advantage of using Spot Color over CMYK?
The PDF/X-3 file format requires an info string to be saved (see for example export via Scribus). What should it contain? Who is going to see it?
If I'm making a web site, brochure, flier, etc., when must I have trademark information in the fine print? Presumably if I mention a product such as "Windows" without mentioning, in the text, the maker of that product (Microsoft), then I have to have some trademark fine print, but how about if I merely mention Microsoft? It would seem to me that it would be unnecessary, as Microsoft is the entity itself. (Edit: The Microsoft/Windows example given here is merely hypothetical in nature. To be more specific, I am not attempting to trick the consumer into believing that my product is endorsed by anyone, but rather attempting to convey the notion that I am using quality components by naming some specific brands. Perhaps a better example would be that, if I were creating a brochure for a power tool company, and stated in it that, "At Tools'N'Thingamabobs, we sell the best power tools available -- Makita, Hilti, and Milwaukee." Although a few brands are mentioned, at no point do I mention specific products, claim that my business is endorsed by any of the brands, etc.)
I'm having problems creating a very simple shape animation in Flash CS5. I have 20 frames, 3 keyframes (at 1, 10 and 20). The following screenshots are from Flash, with onion skin turned on for all 20 frames. (Had to pud link to the images since I can't embed them) When I move a single anchor point, sometimes it's OK, like this: But if I move the point a little futher, the whole shape morphs into something I never created, like this: In both cases, I only moved the same single anchor point - the point of the upper spike. Is there a way of telling Flash that I only want the movement I made and no random morphing ?
I'm making a series of animated gifs witch I design using adobe flash. The problem is that when I export it to the animated gif format, it pixelates losing a lot of quality. I wanted to know if theres a way or format that will allow me to export this with a decent quality, or if theres a program to use as a bridge to do so. I'm using CS5 by the way.
I'm having problems uploading a PNG file to the web. The problem is that it distorts the color of the image. The image is a trademark and uses a PANTONE color. I think this could be the problem because the distortion affects only this color alone. I have tried saving it for normally, for web, in multiple formats (JPG, PNG, GIF) Always the same exact result: color distortion. So, how can I upload this image without having to change the color? EDIT: Here's a link to the image because I don't have enough rep to publish any image yet: EDIT 2: OK, it seems that the problem is Facebook, which is the place I'm trying to upload this trademark, because I uploaded this to ImageShack and it shows correctly. Any advice on how to fix it?
It seems fairly well agreed that people glancing at a site won't read proper paragraphs, only bullet point lists. I'm really struggling how to say all the things I want in a few bullet points... it seems to me more than 5 or 6 points and it again looks 'heavy' To me, so many things about my company seem imperative to get across but how on earth do you decide what to leave out? My site will be somewhere I direct users to, not one they find via Google - it's a specialist product. ps: Is this the best SE site? I figured web-design would have its own but I can't see one
My problem is that when I scale down my drawing, the line weights stay the same, blotting out the artwork. If I scale up, the line weights become too thin. I've noticed that parametric effects don't scale together with the drawing. How do I scale drawings in Adobe Illustrator and still maintain the proportions of line weights, gradients, and effects such as offset path?
Since vector drawings are scalable infinitely, I should be able to save my drawings at any DPI I wish. How do I do that with Illustrator CS5?
In a new layer in a CS4 Photoshop document (Mac), my shape tool cursor has a small circle with an 'x' in it - to the bottom-right of the crosshair. What does this mean? If I try to draw a rectangle, the outline is created but it is not filled with the current foreground colour. Anyone know what might be causing this? I tried taking a screenshot but the screenshot utility doesn't capture the active cursor.
This is a simple question but it doesn't seem to be here. My question: Is there a better way to convert a colour image into a B&W (in photoshop) one than just changing the 'mode' of the image? By 'better' I mean 2 things: non-destructive and also the ability to have more control over the results (the brightness, contrast etc.)
I want an effect where in I have a globe and I want to put a text ring around the globe. Similar to the rings in a planet but in place of the ring, there would be text that gives effect of a ring. Can I do this in photoshop or illustrator. I tried to google for tutorials that do this, but wasnt able to find any. Can anybody help me out with this as I am new to both. I want kind of a 3D effect, so that it seems the text is going behind and coming out of the globe..
I'we been trying to compare the two tablets mentioned in the title. So far, my results are: Intuos4 is professional wheras Bamboo is for home use. Intuos4 has 2048 levels of pressure while Bamboo has 1024 Lines of resolution in considerable more in Intuos4 (5080) than Bamboo (2540). Intuos4 has a bunch of keys to speed up your workflow. Intous4 has pen tilt sensor which Bamboo hasn't. Now, I'm not a professional artist and won't be using this all the time. But I do plan to use some of my drawings for commercial purposes. I'm fairly sure I don't need the extra levels of pressure and line resolution and all the shortcut buttons (which I'm sure I'd highly appreciate if I'd be working with this all day long!). I'll be using it primarily with Illustrator. So, the question: Is there anything I'm missing from the comparison ?
In Illustrator you can create own colors in the color palette (as you might know :)). Now I want to do the following: create a shape, for example a rectangle, and assign a color from the palette. Is it possible to change the color of every shape I assigned the color the when I change the color in the palette? For example I create a color "myColor", assign it to three rectangles and when I change the "myColor" in the palette, all the three rectangles are updated automatically. Thank you!
I am working on an android app but I cannot find any UI elements for the high pixel density resolutions, such as the following: 480x800 480x852 Anybody know where I can get this? Thanks!
I'm wondering how I can create the magnifying glass effect I've seen a lot lately on pages that sell software (either desktop or web-applications). Here are two examples. I really like the first one (first place I saw it too) Things App: SupportBreeze:
I'm trying to design a smart way to manage the Server/Channel List. I want to do something different that'll be simple for users to use. I had thought of Modifying tab controls to have a "parent" (IRC Server) and children(Channels Queries). Where the children reside INSIDE the parent, however this isn't very good for space design purposes. The typical design is just to do a bunch of tabs or a long TreeView list. I'm wanting to design something that is easy for anyone to use, but advanced enough to show everything you need. What would your suggestions be? This is basically what I had in mind, not exactly but you should be able to get the idea:
I'm trying to setup a large presentation spread with 4 panels. They will be hung next to each other so it's important that I see all of them next to each other while I design the layout. Facing pages allows you to see 2 pages next to each other. Is there some way to get the same effect with more than 2 pages?
(sort of step 2 for this question but also technically a new question in its own right) I have 4 pages side by side in a spread and i would like to put a small gap between them, to simulate how they will be pinned up on the wall. At the moment the pages touch edge to edge. Is it possible to have these pages side by side but with a gap between them? again; using Indesign CS5
I chose Apple Pages to create a PDF manual with bookmarks (TOC in the sidebar for navigation). But as it cannot create those bookmarks, I must create them in another app such as Acrobat. The problem is that I can't import the PDF back in Pages to do modifications while keeping the bookmarks and even if I could, as soon as I would add or remove a page, all bookmarks for the following pages would be wrong. So is there a tool that could for example generate those bookmarks from a list of text lines and page numbers ?
I am trying to write a tutorial of photoshop techniques. But I am fairly new at this and when i hit print screen it does not copy the mouse cursor. Does anyone know how to copy the mouse cursor in Photoshop under Windows 7?
I have this header image: And I'm trying to find the best colors for the text of the title. Any suggestions?
Does anyone know of a way to give images a 3D effect, using any Adobe software or other software. I saw this but it doesn't show how it's done. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuoljANz4EA
I am not a graphic designer but a programmer. Recently i wrote a short story in answer of a technical question. Then I realized if i convert it into graphical comic book story then it would be more interesting and understanding. I have many characters/pose in vector form. And am looking for some backgrounds which are generally be used in comic books like city,lab,planet,universe etc etc. Can somebody suggest me a place/site where i can find them. I tried to bing/google them but they searched wallpaper with super heroes.
Ok, bear with me here as I may be using the wrong terminology... I have a nice image of a wooded scene (not handy unfortunately). Basically it is a winding dirt path through an area of forest, with the path surrounded by small blue flowers. In my head, I have a picture of the effects I would like to achieve, however I'm not quite sure how to go about doing it. My googling has led me to increasing overall brightness, and changing the histogram, but I don't think this gets the effect I want. Basically, I want to take my image, give the woods a kind of darker...HDR sort of effect (which I have been able to do by making it black & white, and then using a blend mode on top of the original), and then the important part: I would like to make the flowers "glow" their natural color. In summary, my stumbling block is how to achieve a brightened region of color that accentuates these flowers, while still retaining a decently natural look, but here is where my Photoshop-fu breaks down and I end up with something very unnatural looking. Edit: I'm using Photoshop CS5, and here's the image in question... Edit the second: Ok, sorry guys. The image host is blocked where I work, so I'm just now seeing your wonderful contributions. Hrulga is probably the closest so far, but what I was imagining was taking that a little bit more extreme. So basically I am hoping to take the somewhat fluorescent color you came up with and make it really glow in that area....maybe such that it seems like it is giving off a foggy sort of light.
I have an .xcf image and I like to change the color of some objects within it. The objects are mostly one solid color with the edges feathered into transparency. I.e. all pixels in the object are white with most pixels fully opaque and some with transparency. I've tried to change the objects' color using the color select tool + bucket fill but this destroys the feathering. Is there a way to get the gimp to change just the color but preserve the transparency? The actual objects that I have are multiple bits of text all at different sizes and rotations that I have merged into one layer. So it is no use re-adding the feathering as this messes up the text quite noticeably. Thanks
I'm quite sorry for my unclear question. I have two Scribus documents, the contents of a club magazine (i.e. everything from TOC to colophon) and the cover (which is in color). For space reasons I would like to put the TOC and colophon on the inside of the cover, to minimize 'lost' space. Scribus has a feature where I can import a page from one document into another, but the page sizes don't match up and I cannot move the imported page: Note top-right corner, I highlighted the layout-thingies. The imported page is clearly too much to the left and top. Also, the elements from the master page are missing. I would be very grateful for any comment :)
So in my spare time I like working with fonts. During the creation process it's hard to remember all the possible features offered by OpenType at one time. What's a good resource (maybe a primer of some sort) on using OpenType features during font creation?
I want to master a software for furniture design but I don't know what's an appropriate and powerful solution.
Possible Duplicate: Convert a line drawing from raster to vector I have a solid color shape. Is there an automatic way that Illustrator can detect its borders and convert it into a vector. I'm new to Illustrator and using the latest Illustrator CS5.1 I have the same question for scanned sketches that I drew by hand. Can Illustrator automatically vectorize them?
I'm new to design, and I often observe and have a lot of questions. I'm familiar with Photoshop, but I'm not sure of its full capabiilites. Take a look at this iPhone game called Cut the Rope, http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cut-the-rope/id380293530?mt=8 I'm curious as to what program do they use to create these graphics and edit the colors. Is this just Photoshop and Illustrator or are there non-Adobe programs being used?
Basically, I love how people use textures in web design. But as most website designs are "fluid", how do you make them work for all monitors and make them seamless? For Example, on the website http://amazorize.com/ they have the "triangle" effect at the bottom of the main section, how would you go about making something like this seamless?
I'm working in several CMYK .PSD documents. Whenever I save them as .PDF, the first PDF generated always appears as a more rich RGB-looking black (on-screen at least). Changing maybe a few non-color-space/mode items and re-saving always results in a PDF with lighter looking blacks on screen. Why is this? It's driving me mad!
I am attempting to create very simple icon, which resembles a 'dashboard' of a car. The first part of the icon (shape 1) was created by adding and subtracting shapes. The second part (shape 2) was created because the three parts of the shape needed to be placed accurately. Is there a way to subtract shape 2 from shape 1? I am aware that shapes can be combined, but can they be "excluded" together? Here's shape 1: and here's the second shape that I want to subtract from the first:
I have an image of smoke over a black background. If I set the blending mode of this layer to screen, the image's background is perfectly edited out, however if there isn't another layer below this, the screen mode does nothing. How can I make the background truly transparent, so it is just smoke on a transparent background? Colour Range selection is useless in this scenario, because smoke needs different levels of transparency throughout, and not just a clear cut selection. Thanks
I've seem these icons on lots of sites, so I assume they are publicly available and free to use. Does any one know who designed them, and the official site?
I had to make a page with a couple links on it, so I thought I would try to make the links big and decorative: But I ran into the problem that people didn't realize it was a button, so they didn't know what to click on. It's obvious that something like this is a button: My question is: How can I design my buttons to be obviously click-able?
So I just purchased the CS5.5 Master Collection, I'm an enthusiast :) I have a question pertaining to blending layers and applying adjustments in Photoshop. How do I apply an adjustment layer to a blended layer, while only having the blended layer affecting one layer beneath it, and then having the adjustment layer apply only to the result of that created by the blending? I know it's a mouthful... I have three layers, from top to bottom: adjustment layer, blending layer, artwork layer. I have applied a gradient to the blending layer using the Vivid Light option, which in turn affects all the layers below it (I only want it to affect the artwork layer though). I then want to apply an adjustment to the resulting effect. Apologies if I was vague, but my terminology on the subject matter is not yet up to par as I'm a complete newbie to this field. Please let me know if I can clarify anything. Cheers, Les
I received zip containing font in .afm format. Is this some sort of source-code of a font that can be converted TTF/OTF or so? How can I actually read and use this file?
Image is taken from this site. Is there a way in Illustrator to draw a group of rectangles like this without having to draw them one by one? The idea is to divide the area into as many rectangles of size 100x50 which have a 10 gap between them. Is there something automatic to make this happen?
Lets say I have 1000 px wide 2 column layout with 100 px gutter space (margin) and 50px on the left and right.. How do I apply the golden ratio to this layout? Method One c1+c2=800px; c1/c2=1.618; =>c1= 495px and c2= 305px 50px, column 1 (495px), 100px, column 2 (305px), 50px Method two calculate the column widths ignoring the margins. c1+c2=1000px c1/c2=1.618 =>c1= 618px c2=392px effective column width after adding the margins/paddings c1=618px -100px = 518px c2=392px -100px = 292px 50px, column 1 (51), 100px, column 2 (305px), 50px % difference in two methods 518-495/518= 4% The 4% difference would not make any any difference, but the % difference will be more when dealing with narrow layouts. Can someone please suggest which method is better. Please include the links and ref supporting your answer.
I am building a strategy game in 2.5D, similar to Age of Empires, but will be a bugs war instead of humans. I am in the process of building animation, I hired a graphic designer and UI developer, the game will be built using HTML5. I have a graphic designer to build the animation in graphic designer and the UI developer will take this PSD work and convert it to HTML5/CSS3 animation. As the game will be in 2.5D, then the characters movement animation is expected to be from different view (right/left/back/front/diagonal-left(back/front)/diagonal-right(back/front) as in Age of Empires. So, animation of walking, fighting, resource gathering, initiate modes should address all this views. What I want is to correctly define the structure of drawing the character in Photoshop or Illustrator so it simplify the animation process for the UI developer. So far, I have animation built on photoshop for right/left view for a bug walking, each part of character body has it's own body, and the graphic designer build multiple frames to create the animation in prototype. What I see is that the amount of work to produce a walking animated photoshop design is huge/time-consuming. And now I also need the character graphics in different view (front/back .. etc), and that means lots and lots of layers. Is this the only solution I can go with to build the animation? Or there is other solution? I was thinking of building 3D bug animation that can be rotated in different views and axes and UI developer is free then to generate images from the view they want, but I am not graphic designer and I don't know if this a valid solution. Any idea?
In Photoshop there is a menu option to create a vector from a text layer: Layer > Type > Create Work Path. Does this lose any quality over leaving it as a text layer, such as font hinting?
Wherever there is a popular game, there is fan art: custom wallpapers, t-shirts, etc. One thing they usually have in common is that they feature artwork from the game, or something close to it. Obviously, some people are talented enough to reproduce the artwork with their own skills. But I think more often than not, it uses actual artwork straight from the game. Take a look at some image search results for Portal for some great examples. I'm a programmer so I understand that for some games, you could literally just lift the artwork right out of the game files. But for things that are dynamic and animated, that's not really an option (for example, the blue and orange portals themselves, in Portal). Grabbing the artwork I would imagine has to involve taking screenshots and then manipulating the image to give it transparency. But I've tried this, but it seems impossible to get a perfect 'lift'. Sometimes you can do things in the game that help, like get the subject to be in front of a perfectly even surface for the screenshot (like a green screen). But even that often times won't turn out well due to anti-aliasing, etc. Are there better techniques? Are there any tutorials out there for Photoshop (or any other tool) specifically for this kind of task?
In CorelDraw it is possible to insert arbitrary graphics (raster or vector) right into line of text by copy-pasting object into it. It is useful sometimes since this embedded object will be scaled along with the text, follow the path line of text is attached to, etc. It would generally work as a character of a font. BUT. When you try to print resulting work or use "Convert to curves" operation, embedded object would not be rendered, it will be replaced by blank space and the program will give you warning message. So, is there a way to convert such document to curves?
Given many characters in a typeface build on others and even just a couple of characters can reveal a lot of the features of a given typeface, what characters are good to start with when designing a typeface?
I am working on building a Strategy Game (it will be in 2.5D), and for graphic design part we are using Illustrator and Photoshop for designing (including designing characters). Now we want to start building 3D modeling for characters to simplify the animation process. It seems photoshop does not support 3D modeling, so what tool would you recommend in this case?
Possible Duplicate: How to design sleek magnifying glass effects like these? I've seen this done many times, and I'm wondering how to do it. If someone could point me to a tutorial on how to do the magnifying glass thing, I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks.
As soon as my QR code is opened in Adobe Photoshop, the size is reduced. Is there any way to maintain the size and quality of the image so that the quality is not compromised. It becomes impossible to scan once I resize it.
I need to create a large image (for print) at 24X36 inches. It is a seating chart poster for a wedding. What settings in Photoshop would I set for an image this size (DPI, etc.)? I would need it to remain sharp when printing so suggesting some Export options would be great too.
I'm writing a thesis, and of course my university has some requirements regarding the typography, specifying in particular the measure (36 pc), the minimum font size (10 pt), and an acceptable range for the leading (1.5 to double spacing). What is known in general about readability as a function of these parameters and the text font? I am aware of research showing that lines ranging between 60 and 70 characters optimize ease of reading of single-column text, with longer lines making it harder to pick up the next line. But I don't know if that research only accounts for normal leading (aka single spacing). Increasing the leading will presumably make it easier to pick up the next line after reading a long line? Because of the university requirements, any reasonable font I choose will produce more than 70 characters per line. So how much should the leading be increased to compensate?
What is the difference between kerning vs. letter spacing?
I've got a 2D image and I want to transform it into something that looks like a single frame from an animation of that logo on fabric catching just a bit of breeze. I'm not an artist so don't have Photoshop or Illustrator, just free stuff like GIMP and Inkscape (under Windows) I know it's some kind 3D transform (or a cheap simulation using filters) - but I don't know the technique. Honestly, I don't know what keywords to use to search Google/YouTube to find what I need. Ideally, something like this (though less drastic) from a flat image: But something even more fake/subtle like this would be OK: Perhaps techniques for both? Update Here's a photo with some of my results using the water simulator mentioned in the selected answer:
I hope you don't mind a programmer barging in on the graphic design site....! I usually work with design agencies to turn their creative ideas into web-site reality. So I can appreciate a good looking website. When it comes to rebuilding my own site however, I don't get the luxury of being able to employ a designer and so I need to do it myself. I've got the basic layout down and am pretty pleased with it - the main thing about the homepage is that it has a nice big navigation with a list of programming services, linked to a pretty large (at the moment 650 x 495) 'slideshow'. The idea is that the slideshow gives you enough further information at a glance on the selected item that you click through to that section to read more. So the question - what makes a good slide? I see many great examples around the web and can say 'yep, that looks good!' but i'm finding it difficult to replicate anything that i'm pleased with. Should it have a highly contrasting background or should it seamlessly connect with its surroundings (which are in this case just a white area)? Should it have an extra large, simple message only? Or include more text? Should it have a full background image, or just incorporate an image somewhere and leave the rest plain? What are some good tips for ensuring I don't make a slide-related faux pas? (given the target market for the site is the design industry!). Thanks :)
I have been asked to do some research into mid-level and high-end flatbed A3 scanners used for professional artwork scanning (think illustrations for children books). I am not acquainted with this market and have some hard time even identifying what brands to look into. For an example of high-end: http://graphics.kodak.com/US/en/product/image_capture/professional_scanners/iqsmart_scanners/iqsmart3 Example of mid-level: http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/jsp/Product.do?BV_UseBVCookie=yes&sku=E10000XL-PH So right now I have Kodak and Epson. What other manufacturers should I look into?
The Windows 7 printer preferences dialogue box tells me: Print pixels: 1416 x 2152 dots Does this mean that I should always provide an image of 1416 x 2152 pixels to achieve max quality? How is DPI relevant if that is the resolution of the printer? The printer in question is a professional Mitsubishi CP9550DW Dye-sublimation photo printer. It states The CP9550DW photo printer can double the original 346 DPI output to the equivalent of 692 DPI, to provide a much sharper picture. From the specs brochure for 'fine mode' is says: Resolution 346 dpi (Fine mode) 4 x 6" 1416 x 2152 dots So am I correct in assuming my images should be 1416 x 2152 pixels when using 4x6 paper? (I am designing some postcard kiosk software)
The book I'm designing was requested originally in PDF format, and that's how it's set up in InDesign. So far, so good, and it's about 90% complete at this point. We've already jumped through a fair number of design hoops on the project, since the first two volumes of the series, done last year, were printed, and the design elements were all set up with print in mind. The client just called, and his "guy" (who will be setting up the book, various videos and other materials for distribution on USB drives) has said he needs the book in XPS format. Before I go all out to dissuade the client I just want to be sure that there isn't, in fact, a simple way to get from InDesign to XPS and retain all of the interactive components (bookmarks, internal hyperlinks/buttons, etc.) in the document. I'm almost entirely unfamiliar with XPS, other than to know it exists and to convert any XPS documents I receive to PDF. Then burning question, then is: is there a way to get from where the project is now, a highly styled InDesign book, to XPS format without losing the interactive capabilities? spending an inordinate amount of time and money to get there?
Are there a selection of freely available licenses which can be used to license artwork? Essentially the license would need to cover the following: Allow me to sell artwork to consumer on a non-exclusive (but royalty-free) basis. Allow consumer to use artwork in a single commercial or non-commercial project. Disallow consumer from redistributing the artwork beyond the scope of their project. Demand that copyright information is left intact. I am new to this and am not aware of any further requirements of such a license. Any advice on the subject would be appreciated.

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