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I am having issues with objects overlapping. If I create a red rectangle in Illustrator, then copy it, and paste it directly on top of itself and change it to white, I get a red outline, even though the object is supposed to cover the other object behind. Why is that? It's driving me nuts, please someone help me out :)
In a InDesign document, I have various Headings and would like to generate a TOC. This worked in the beginning but after some restructuring of the document, it no longer works. It only writes the header but all other content is missing. One of the things I did change is the frame, the TOC should get generated in. Does anyone know how to analyze, what the problem is or how to solve this?
I'm busy with my first vehicle wrap design - and I don't know what size to make my design in Photoshop CS6 - the width of the "bakkie" is 4436mm x 1300mm. If I use that in Photoshop the file size is over a gigabyte. What dimensions should my artwork be?
Every time I see a pattern that looks like it's moving, but really isn't, I wonder what the principles are for creating such images. I suppose this is the best place on the web to get a good answer to this. Some observations I have made are that they usually involve circular shapes, and somehow draw your eyes towards a specific part of the image. Some examples: So what are the principles for creating optical illusion patterns and images?
(This question is meant to be a resource to direct others to given that this is a common question.) Given the task of creating an image that will be printed at a certain size, what pixel dimensions and resolution should I be setting my file at?
I've designed a logo which looks high res in photoshop. But really distorts in Facebook. I understand that Facebook converts the image, but compared to similar logos, it looks bad. Any ways around this?
I find it convenient to use Google Fonts on the websites I build. Quite often I need to find the closest Google Font to a specific commercial font to match a client requirement. This type of question is fairly common for specific fonts such as Helvetica Neue Equivalent on Google Fonts? but is there an online tool where I can show an example of a commercial font by uploading an image and then have the tool display the three closest Google Fonts?
This website uses a tiled grey background that looks good on brighter screens, but too dark for 'standard' Internet brightness/contrast. The less bright one is obviously more muted and the colours do not look good, but we can't control what brightness people use and I'd like some opinions on whether to account for darker screens or lighter. Obviously lighter ones can be harsher on the eyes, so we don't want to blind people, but do want the colours and textures to look as they should. If we should account for darker screens, then we'll have a lighter background. Any ideas appreciated.
We used Adobe Flash for SCADA visualization in the past, but we want to move towards SVG for new web-based SCADA projects. SCADA often uses the same, interactive symbols (like pumps, valves, ...) within the same document and with Flash I used to create a "Movie Clip" for such symbols/objects. Whenever I needed to modify a symbol I could simply modify it's Movie Clip and all instances of it automatically updated themselves in the same way. This was very handy. Is something similar possible with Inkscape (or any comparable SVG drawing program)? I'm talking about drawing a symbol and create several clones (not simple, independent copies).
I'm trying to import a SolidWorks file (saved as .STL) to 3ds Max. The shape, vertices etc. are importing correctly. But I cannot figure out how to set the units. I made a simple 100mm x 100mx square, extruded 20mm, and saved as .STL. When I import it to 3ds Max and measure the distance between two vertices in the bottom of the square, the distance should be 100mm (or 10cm). But instead I got this: "Dist: 687,993cm" I used Tools -> Measure Distance and click on the two corner vertices to get this result. I have already (I suppose) set units from Customize -> Units Setup to centimeters. So the result should be 10cm, but instead it becomes 687.993 cm. How can I fix this so I know that I'm working with the same units between solidworks and 3ds max ?
I am wondering if there is any free online place that I can use to get some design ideas. I want to get those ideas and then use a service like Fiverr to get a for example logo designed for me. For example I want my logo shows the concept of insight, but I don't know what graphic shows that concept. Is there anywhere on the web or any book that has some design samples for different concepts? Maybe a more appropriate question is: for a person who is not a gifted graphic designer, is there a way to find some design ideas? For example how to find a design idea for the concept of insight? Is there a book or a resource that can help?
I've a very simple rectangular shape that has been filled with a hexagon texture. I'm looking to create a sense of depth by keeping the lowermost row of the hexagons largest while transforming the top row to be smaller so they are appear to be in the distance. This would be similar to creating a chessboard like 3-D feel. Any recommendations or proper ways to use the tool without relocating the actual placement of the rectangle – just be inner dimensions?
I've got a dozen layers or so in my .psd and I am trying to Export Layers to Files..., However, when exported, I want the top adjustment layer to take effect on every image. My layers look a little like this: - adjustment_layer - layer_3 - layer_2 - layer_1 Is there any way to do this? Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.
If a freelance designer is re-branding, is it bad to use a minimalist approach to providing contact detail - email, phone etc? Example: I hardly ever do phone calls unless it's for a conference and at best use a phone for a webinar. That said I really see no purpose to give out my number and since my main means of communication is by email or IM I would think an approach with a logo and site address sufficient. That said is it bad to assume in re-branding that people would go to the site to fill out a contact form? Would it be good to counter the phone number with an email address on the stationery? Does the exclusion of classic elements in brand design effect marketing to an older audience?
While scaling images in GIMP in the Quality section I was prompted to choose one of the following interpolations: None Linear Cubic Sinc(Lanczos3) What is the difference between these and which one is the best in terms of quality/loselessness?
How do I move text around in photoshop CS6, after I have already created a layer and placed the text in a project?
Today and yesterday I had nightmares... One thing is that I personally have a Windows phone. That didn't help surely. But I was reading up on iPhone settings and Android settings and there was no clear answers. Well, Litmus had this answer which was precise for iPhone 5S, but the question becomes "what about other phones?" How do you combine media queries for both iphone then galaxy and then other smaller resolution screens? One of the main problem is there is no good documentation stating which phones are the most popular and what are the resolutions of those phone settings - so media querying can become more streamlined. Here is some code I put in for my settings but I don't know if that was good enough or not. For the most part everyone told me they could see the email fine. @media only screen and (max-width: 620px) and (min-width: 511px), only screen and (max-device-width: 620px) and (min-device-width: 511px) { /* @-ms-viewport { width: device-width; }*/ table.container { width: 480px !important } @media only screen and (max-width: 510px), only screen and (max-device-width: 510px) { table.container { width: 320px !important } As you see by the first code block, Microsoft does their own thing and that was another total nightmare. Although Windows Phone is not too popular right now Windows 8 surely is and the RT IE uses the same viewport format. Same Litmus cost so much to use.
I want to take a circle that has a blue border and a picture inside, and clip the picture so it fits inside the circle nicely. I'd prefer to use very small files, perhaps cut down in sprites. Once I have the clipping mask (sort of like Photoshop), I want to add a hover css animation to it.
The android design guidelines say that "Use a distinct silhouette. Three-dimensional, front view, with a slight perspective as if viewed from above, so that users perceive some depth." I am still fairly new with illustrator and I was just wondering if anyone could tell me how to turn a 2d flat image into something three dimensional with a slight perspective from above.
The design is ready inside a few PSDs and needs to be passed on to the developers. Is there an easier way to do it instead of manually creating it or giving away the PSD? The end product should be a PDF containing the main layer (iPhone screen or webpage) with relevant properties to each object. For example: Back Button: x:10 y:20 w:100 --------------- > Here will be an image of the object inside the main layer h:123 Color: 20,50,20,1 Name: back_button.png If such a tool doesn't exist, how do you pass the above data to the developers? Is there a common standard for this?
Only 8x8? How do I make the artboard from 8x8 grid to a 10x10 grid?
Arrowheads are by default added to the end of a line, which means that the length of the line plus arrowhead is longer than the length of the line alone. This is annoying when I carefully clipped the line to the right length, only to find that I need to realign everything once I add arrowheads. Is it possible to add arrowheads in such a way that the the length of the line plus the arrowhead is the same as the line alone?
I am trying to find two fonts to use on my resume. Bebas Neue Klinic Slab
I am trying to switch to Houdini from XSI. In XSI I could do something called symmetric modeling. Cut an object by half, and mirror it. And edit just the source half, then I get exactly same result on both sides automatically mirrored without any concern. I tried to do this with Modify - Mirror, but it seems the mirrored object is disconnected from source object, so editing on source object won't be applied on the mirrored object automatically. How can I make it to be applied automatically?
What's the name of the font? I am working in this picture so I want know the font name.
In studying composition, we're told to pull the viewer's eyes into the frame using a strong focal point, and then lead his/her eyes into moving around inside the frame and hold his interest inside the composition. Okay, but I'm curious. If the focal point has the most contrast and visually pops out most from everything else, why do your eyes move away from it to other elements?
I need to create PDF/A conform files of technical drawings with Adobe Illustrator. Are there any presets for saving PDF/A files? Or do I need Adobe Acrobat Pro for this?
When I export from Indesign I would like to maintain a high quality (eg 300dpi resolution), but I do not want anyone can open with illustrator my pdf and can move objects like I was back in the indesign project. There is a way to do this?
I'm currently looking at a new font for a logo and I'm having some issues with the kerning of our lettering. I've search the web for guidance on kerning, in particular when using double lowercase lettering but not been able to find much on this. I've gone for the same spacing in between each letter to begin with but it looks wrong particularly towards the end of the word. Any advise on this or resources for good practices would be really helpful. Second image with default kerning:
I am trying to improve my design side on web design. I have design a mobile app using a platform called ApplicationCraft which gives me mobile 5 mobile themes (colours) and have created a 'nice' looking app using the green theme. I allow the client to add their own logo & banner which then conflicts with the green theme I am using. I can use CSS to change the colours of the theme so I need to know if there is a 'Standard neutral' range of colours to achieve this. This is my current screen:
I'm 16, from India and I really want to be a web/graphic designer.I'm good with coding, Illustrator, Photoshop etc. Problem is, I only KNOW how to do stuff, like, I see a design and I can confidently say, I can recreate that. But how do I think of something new, something beautiful? I see posters and ads everywhere like 'we can create your website for Rs.50' or 'Making a website just became easy' and it really upsets me. I think how am I better from them? Who will want to work with me when they can easily work with people like them? Moreover I participated in a few contests in 99designs and i got eliminated in the first round 12 times People always comment not good enough, not what we are looking for etc etc. Should I just quit because I can't think anything, I can just copy things. Should I just go back into trying to be a lame engineer as my parents want? I'm even embarrassed in asking a question like this in a place where people talk about some serious design work. Please Help.
I've created some pattern in CS6 (object->pattern->make) and filled with that pattern some square. I've deleted the source elements from the file but I still can edit the elements is pattern edition mode. I cannot edit the elements inside the square filled with that pattern and because of that the stock site has rejected the whole work. How can I make the pattern filling to be editable (when I fill the square with the pattern I cannot change elements inside this square), where is the fault?
I'm trying to get my workspace to look like this: http://youtu.be/mFRHTs8-KVw?t=1m14s See how the layer window has no scroll bars / title? How do I achieve the same? That is a tutorial video and when he pans it works differently than my Photoshop. Any help would be appreciated.
Hopefully I am understandable and don't sound impractical when I ask the above question. To elaborate: I have some scanned documents and the font used in those documents(images) is FrenchScript MT Std Regular. I installed that font on my sys. Now I was wondering if it's possible to use the character map of that particular font and match each individual character in the image (the scanned image is just plain text, no images, no paragraphs or no formatting) with font characters and place the matching letters just above the character in the image. Want to do it in MS word or any other text editors where after the characters are placed above the image, it can be deleted from the background and the document can be saved. It's another type of OCR I guess. How can it be done? Attaching the image to help you understand the scenario.
I want to grab one of the colors from a gradient, and turn it into a solid color swatch. Update Just to be precise, I want to get the color of one of the 'nodes' in the gradient. So if a a gradient goes from red to blue, I might want to grab the exact color blue from the blue node – i'm not wanting to grab any of the inbetween colors.
When I try to change the color after tracing a JPEG image in Illustrator and expanding it, it becomes gray. I have tried lots of color changes but the result is always the same. Why can't I change the color to anything other than gray, on an image I've traced in Adobe Illustrator? How can I change the traced image's color?
I am asking if someone know any tutorial or tools that help me design characters like this in the following image (see the men in the header?): and thank you so much.
I am working in Illustrator CC with a CMYK file that has lines stroked with black at an opacity of 10%. When I save this image to a .pdf, the strokes turn pure black instead of being transparent. Why is this happening?
I have a simple question that should be easy to fix but for the life of me can not figure it out. Is there a way to have Inkscape automatically open last used dialog boxes such as "Align and Distribute", "Fill and Stroke" and others? This seems like it should be a easy switch somewhere but for the life of me I can't find it.
I create colored pencil art and I'm very confused about the whole thing of resolution: A professional print provider is doing the photo shoot of my artwork, and I was just handed an image that is 72 dpi, but the picture is very large. I thought it should be 300 dpi so I could save it into the various sizes I need for mags or printing or submission for shows. What is the correct way to do this? When I shoot my art myself just for my own use I resize the images to 72 dpi and they then look quite small, the right size for posting on my blog but the 72 dpi image he sent me as mentioned was very large at 72 dpi. Some advice here please and thank you. I am new at this and the question was answered but I did not understand a word of it. Could someone please explain this process in layman's terms please?
I was playing a kerning game where the goal is to see if you can kern a word by eye and then compare your kerning with that of the designer. I was doing... ok. Until I got to: I kerned is as such: Not perfect, but not horrible. The 'correct' kerning was: A comparison; blue being the 'correct' kerning: I can see that I could have made the 'Xyl' tighter, but why is there so much space in the 'one'? It seems that there's a gap there. Even when typing "Xylophone" I see the gap from the kerning. What's the reason for this spacing? Why did the designer choose to create these kerning pairs?
When I convert from RGB to CMYK in Photoshop as you know colors change saturation and maybe some hue. So basically what the title asks, does it matter when I adjust the colors and saturation via hue/saturation layer? Or can I fix the colors in RGB or in CMYK and it doesn't matter?
I looks similar to impact but not quite. I've spent like 2 hours searching and I'm stumped.
I'm wondering if there is a tool or simple method that will allow me to turn a simple pencil/pen sketch into something like the two images below. I received these in a newsletter from a Kickstarter project and wondering how someone would go about making them.
so my manufacturer was nice enough to give me die-lines in illustrator, but i want to use them as cutmarks/die-lines in InDesign, mainly to keep learning InDesign. I imagine there's a pretty simple way to do this? Would love someone to point the way. Thank you!
What fonts support the widest range of characters? (Like Helvetica Neue LT W1G) Need to work on an a website present in 25+ countries, and I'm looking for something I can use as a webfont. Update: To make things even worse, it needs to have subpixel hinting so that it doesn't look like crap on Windows.
Most websites uses a scheme of bronze, silver, gold, platinum, and maybe even diamond to rank service plans they may provide. In my website design, I want to the users to have a dot next to the username (like badges on stackoverflow) that specify what plan the user is on (so gold for gold members). How can I represent silver, platinum and diamond, all which look 'grayish', in a small area that measures 6px by 6px (as it is on SO, but maybe a little bigger is OK too)? Bonus: Is there a better alternative to the metal + diamond scheme of ranking?
I am learning seamless pattern creation in Illustrator CS6. I've created some repeated pattern and divide it by rectangle using the Object-Path-Divide objects below menu. Unexpectedly, there is some dislocation of the cut shapes relatively to background which was used as a cutter - I've copied the background rectangle and put it above the all elements (without fill or stroke). Look at the picture. Is it my fault or it should be some bug within AI? UPD1 The machine is MacBookPro and coordinates of the rectangle are as 160.466 px - could it be related to alignment issue/grid?
OghmaOsiris asked how would one decide on what is the proper kerning, "Kerning: My Xylophone is off key" and since I have started the transition of designing in the browser I was curious to know how would someone adjust the kerning?
Making masking rectangle for the pattern in Illustrator I should insert the central coordinates of shapes in 4 angles of the pattern and I have coordinates numbers like 45.401px, however when I insert this number only 45.4 px is saved and in resultant Divide Objects Below command for pattern I get non perfect margins and thus the pattern does not match. How can I solve the issue? Align to pixel grid is switched off.... look at the pic upd I follow this tutorial, so don't be critical about logics etc. Also, pay attention to this sentence: when I take a number like 34.301 px and insert it as coordinate to Transform item and reopen Transform - I see that coordinate as 34.3 and not 34.301.
The reason I ask is because I (feel) as if I'm making the same sequences of clicks between two shapes and I get several different blends each time. Example attached below. Thanks for your time.
I need to convert all fonts in a PSD file (CS6) to outlines for printing preparation. Unfortunately, fonts aren't just in text objects; there are a lot of Smart Objects and some of them may have text in them. Is there anyway to find out if there are any font references in the entire file? One thing I have tried is to save the file as PDF, then open it in Acrobat, choose Properties, and see if there are any embedded fonts. I don't know if that's enough of a guarantee though.
A few weeks ago, I was trying to figure out how to convert RGB files to CMYK mode. I was viewing hundreds of tutorials and I can remember that most of them taught me to change the color mode from the Convert to Profile options and now I'mm having trouble whenever I drag an image into the canvass I'm working with, this message pops up. Please tell me how to fix this cause it never showed before when I was working with Photoshop.
I used a couple of online services but couldn't manage to identify the font in the well known George Costanza Human Fund holiday card: I'd like to know the font used for the "To celebrate the holiday season, a charitable..." part.
How can one scale both a rectangle and a circle--both being selected--so that the circle is scaled appropriately according to what I want to specify the rectangle's width to be?
What is the name for the long dashes that sometimes replace the inner letters of a name in older printed texts, and what is their purpose? Image source: Wikimedia Commons
I'm pretty new to Photoshop. I would like to change the color of this object on my .png image: But anyway I try, it becomes this fuzzy with the new color: How can I change it's color to stay in it's original shape?
How to make a transparent 'png' image from black (not transparent) to nothing (absolutely transparent) in GIMP smoothly? As result, this image on the red image gives the image from black via dark red to red? This is an example (but not of good quality, I'd like to know how to make this image properly):
I have an image that I need to enlarge to 84" wide and 72" tall. How can I do this with as little to no pixelation? Is it possible to do this in Corel Photo-Paint X6?
What is the official name of this image ? It is often found on the side of a panel widget for dragging. Is it named "gripper"? A Google search doesn't return a lot of results for "gripper icon".
Is there a way in Sketch to expand a shape? For example, let's say I have an outline of something. I'd like to expand that outline to be a solid shape so I can apply boolean operations to it with other shapes. Is that possible?
I really enjoy editing vector graphics. Typically I use Inkscape for editing vectors because Illustrator seems to throw so many errors when reading the files. I understand that an SVG is basically specialized XML and that it is an open format for vectors. I am curious if anyone understand why Illustrator has so many problems using .svgs? Is it just that Illustrator doesn't do well parsing the XML or does Adobe not to support open formats?
What is the legal perspective of using specific fonts for your company logo? Which fonts CAN you use in your logo?
It's possible to vary in multiple channels, i.e. color, shape, angle, size, etc... AND there are multiple degrees of difference within each channel. So if you have more than a few items in a design, there are so many different possible combinations. For example, some items could only differ in size(in a particular difference in size), while some items can be different in color and shape(in particular difference of hue/sat/value and angles). While design books and courses give you vague principles and leave it up to a designer's intuition, I figured there must be some more systematized and detailed guidelines based on recent cognitive and neuroscience research.
I'm using Photoshop CS6 and for some reason the grid is not aligned 1 pixel by 1 pixel on my 20 pixel by 20 pixel image. I've tried everything and it still doesn't work. Any help would be appreciated. here are my settings: Guides,grids and slices : views: p.s: I'm new to photoshop
We've got a load of images linked into an InDesign document which are linked like this: user/documents/project-name/images/batch2/image1.png The actual images are sub-filed like this images/batch1, images/batch2 etc. These batch files contain the actual image files usually a mixture of .jpg and .png There a several hundred batches - we use this file structure to make it easier to navigate when outside of InDesign (by the way they are not actually called "batch", they have numbers which are relevant internally to people working on the project). Im aware that if i update one image in a batch folder, the rest of the ones in the folder will update, but this won´t help the other batch folders. So is there a way the project-name in the path changes BUT the rest of the path stays the same? So that I can just update all linked images to use the new path without having to relink every image or every folder?
Fairly new to AI, certainly to scripting. I'm trying to recreate this poster: The problem I'm having is that I want to automate the creation of the large amount of circles. I want to record an action that I can apply to a shape (in this case a circle) to do the following: copy the shape paste it on the exact same place move the object 2 px up and 2 px left increase the size of the object with 4 px. I found the moving part, but increasing the size with a certain amount of px seems impossible. The action records the scaling as a percentage, resulting in increasingly bigger distances between the circles. Is there a way to record an action that that makes every copy move by the same amount of pixels? Thanks
I need to make a t-shirt with a one color design that is EASY as a .png. But the shirt company wants it as a vectored .eps file. I tried sending them an import of the .png but that wasn't good enough. All I need is a red square with transparent text and a logo: a one color stencil that includes text and the logo. But I am finding it near impossible to create with Inkscape. I can't seem to get the transparent text to cut out (erase?) from the red background square. If it's transparent, then all I see is a red square. If I make the text and logo black or white, it looks fine, but I need a ONE color design with the color of the t-shirt showing through the transparent parts. Can anyone help me with a simple tutorial for this? I'm quite versed in GIMP but haven't done a ton with Inkscape. I just need to make text and the logo and have it erase from the red background, rather than being a layer on top. Hope this makes sense. Thank you for any help!!! :-)
What is the font used in these diagrams? I tried searching, but can't find exact one. www.identifont.com gives me "Chalfont Light" as a result, but this is not the font used in diagrams.
Does anyone have any idea on what font this is? Seen at http://snowballsummit.webflow.com
Does anyone have any idea on what font this is? If there is more than 1 font, please identify that for me! Many Thanks, SparkzWeb
Please excuse my complete ignorance of the correct terms, but I have a set of 120mm blocks of content which I want to be cut out after printing. I can only print on A4 paper so I can cram two of each per A4 sheet. The elements don't have a border of their own but I was hoping to be able to apply crop marks like can be applied to the page as a whole (on each corner.) Is there a method to calculate and insert said marks on to my printed document without having to use an entire sheet of paper per item? I would even settle for the correct terminology to use in my searches. I'm using Scribus for the document creation and printing, I don't have access to any other package.
I am very new at photoshop and I am not sure if I have chosen the correct title for the question but I'll give you an example so hopefully that will do it. So basically I am trying to blend one image into another and I've used mask and everything to cut edges but it still doesn't look very authentic and I would like to know if there is a way to paint the image in colours similar to those of the background so that it blends easily. This is what I have for the moment: I would like for the image on top to be brownish like the old paper on the background instead of gray. Is that possible? Thanks in advance!
I am looking for icons to represent data types in a tree (e.g: string, number, date, array, object etc.). Are there any open source/commercial icon sets for this purpose? All my Google search keys return generic results.
I have been using Photoshop/Illustrator for about 6 years or so now. I never really learned from official resources, nor did I attend a course which would have taught me how to use the Creative Suite appropriately. But it bugs me more often than not, so I finally want to learn how to achieve the following: I am an Interface designer and sometimes in interfaces it happens that views repeat throughout the application (like the cells of a custom table for example). I would like to learn how to "link" layers either in the same document, or externally. I know it is possible because I have often seen it in other people's psd files, like product mockups where you can change the content's layer and as soon as you save it, it will update all interface elements that use this 'linked' layer. I would be grateful if somebody could shed some light on this topic.
I want to manipulate a photo so that the number of colours is reduced significantly (to say 15-50 colours which I would specify the number). I would like those colours to be automatically optimised for the photo in question. (As a bonus, it would be great if the result could be manipulated in interesting ways so that if the boundaries of the colours were traced onto paper, then filled in by good-old-fashioned paint, the result would look more natural, or interesting - anything other than pixellated basically. (For example, plain dithered pixels would be impossible to paint by hand) I would like free (open source) software to do this. I have searched for GIMP plugins but I have not found anything. I don't think GIMP implements custom/optimal quantization out of the box. In the past I remember seeing some android apps which did quantisation plus the bonus features, but I suspect they had resolution limitations among others - last but not least, it was only available on a phone, and PC (Windows) would definitely be preferable. Any ideas welcome!
I'm creating a physical portfolio for an interview. I've bought a portfolio binder/case. I was wondering on what kind of paper should I take the print outs of my work? For example, would it be fine if I used the regular paper? Like an A4 size or should I use a matte or glossed paper for my work? My work includes posters, brochures, business cards etc.
I would like for the content of a Web page to follow the color scheme of the user's system. For example, if they are using a GTK- or QT-based Web browser, the background of the Web site would match the color of the background color in GTK or QT applications. Is there a way to set the color scheme of the Web page to match the user's system color scheme?
I am a beginner in Inkscape. I want to create an image similar to Yury's diagram: This is what I tried so far: I created a circle, selected it and went to Edit > Clone > Create tiled clones. I searched under "symmetry" but didn't find a rotation of 22.5 degrees (which is the rotation required to create the above image) - only 60 degrees. I went to "Rotation" and set the "per row" rotation to 22.5 degrees, but only got a grid of 5-by-5 circles (probably each circle was rotated in place). What should I do now?
Please keep in mind that I have no idea what I’m doing with image editing. I have a watermark that I want to add to images, but it loses it’s transparency when I try to stick it on a picture. I’ve tried the watermark as RGB and as greyscale. I read through the GIMP discussion site and found an answers that gave three possible methods (here), but I still couldn’t get it to work. (I didn’t understand the “Channels dialog” part of the second and third methods, and for the first method, I couldn't get the floating selection anchored in the mask.) This can't be a hard thing to do — I feel like there’s something very basic that I’m just missing. Below are the images that I'm using. The image that I want to watermark: The watermark with transparent background: Same as above, with transparency pattern added for visibility: Result:
I don't like tshirts whose logos melt when you iron them, or crack if you put them in the dryer for too long. What do you call the printing process where the logo becomes part of the shirt itself, and is less susceptible to damage?
I want RGB colors to be displayed in the shape color panel, but instead the CMYK colors are displayed. Did not find any way to change it... but obviously there should be one. Or probably the colors are RGB and just the label are converted CMYKs? Could you clarify the issue? AI CS6
I'd like to find the font that was used on the cover of this edition of the book. Any ideas? I know other editions use other fonts.
For example, if I've got a path with a 3px border, I'd like it to snap to the edge of the border and not to the path its self? Here's a square which has the path snap to the guides instead of the square's border:
The goal Choose a good color combo for my alert message for a dark background. The scenario This is what I have now: Borders/font color: #e84e4f Alert background-color: #9c2b2e Body background color: #d2cece The problem I don't know... I just think that colors aren't good enough for the scenario. Of course, it depends of my context, but I think the reds are too heavy, painful and shocking for humans' eyes - don't you think the same? I need some other harmonious color to indicate validation errors that fits well the background. Suggestions?
I've been thinking of publishing graphic design instructional books and tutorials for non-designers. But I'm concerned that this could negatively impact my business. However, I really like paying it forward and enabling people do be self-sufficient. At the same time, I have to make a living.
I have no idea at all, first of all, of image internal composition and color modes. That said, I have a very strange problem. These are the pictures: Well, the ORIGINAL is more colorful in Firefox, but the second is like powered off (I dont know english word for that). It looks like the yellow-orange at the left center is changed. I needed to slow the size from 1mb to about 300k, so I opened the original with Fireworks and Photoshop (ps is the second link) with the same results. This is not a life matter, I am just curious why this happens. If you go to http://tracker.fusiondev.com.ar and look at wrapper div with Firebug u will be able to change the background URL to the original.jpg and see what I am talking about. Thanks! EDIT: If you open both URLs in Firefox u will see the change inmediatly.
Good Evening, I would like to have my text width stretching automatically to its Text frame in InDesign CS6. (I want the text adapting to the frame and not the frame adapting to the text) So the text will have the same width even if it is a bit stretched. Is it something we can do ?
I am new to Graphics design. I want to learn a graphics design software in order to develop a game. I chose Gimp as it was free and i followed few tutorials. Most tutorials accomplished the goal without explaining low level concepts such as different blend modes, color terms such as threshold, levels, etc. Where can I find detailed explanations about these? If possible provide free resources. Thanks.
When I put text over an image and then save as a jpeg using the File -> Save for Web defaults I always end up seeing noise in the text even though it's 100% opacity.. This a a screen shot of what I see in Photoshop: And this is a screen shot of the jpeg after saving. I think the noise I'm describing is most visible in the "A" and the left diagonal of the "Y". It's not on an edge/corner so I don't think it's an anti-aliasing issue. Is there anyway to prevent this?
I would like to include a similar picture in my bachelor's thesis. I am looking for tips on how to make this (or in general) diagram(s) more beautiful. Can you recommend programs for creating such diagrams? Preferably free and runs under Linux.
I'm looking to get some input from experienced designers, since my main job revolves around coding and not so much designing... What good tools are out there that one can use to mockup some os x style interfaces? Something more modern would be preferable, not a tool that was the bees knees back in 2006 or something. Also if it's a mac app, then even better. Thanks in advance!
I'm trying to reproduce this: I have sort of got it by redrawing with the pen but it isn't what I think I should be doing and it isn't as smooth. I think I can do better by trying to learn to bend these shapes properly. Can someone point in to the correct steps?
I'm creating a model of a road to use in Unity. The edges need to be able to tile so I can link multiple parts together. I made a UV map and edited it in Gimp. I used the seamless filter in gimp to make the top part of the road seamless, however I'm still getting a line on the very edge. Any ideas on how I can make a better texture for this? Unity Blender
I have a navigation menu with some buttons, that looks a bit like this (NOTE: Each button has a distinctive icon that differentiate it from the rest, I didn't add them to the mockup but they are similar to Wins8 icons): Some users have reported accidentally clicking Sign instead of Send, something that is just inadmissible. I'm now considering ways to differentiate the buttons more. One option is to move Sign to the right. The other, (probably adding to moving it) to change its color: Is position good enough differentiation? Or should I consider using color as well? Adding a new color to this navigation has some impact in the overall palette and look, so it has a price I'd have to pay.
I have a data which contains the number times users visits a page and the time of day the visit occurs. I would like to display this data visually but I don't know what is the best representation of the data. I am thinking perhaps a pie chart where each slice represents the amount of times a link is clicked. Another option is to display the data as a bar chart where each bar height is dependent on the number of times a link is clicked. Are there other options that I am not aware of, possibly including the time the link was clicked?
I'm using Inkscape to convert an svg to eps. But when I save the svg as eps and open the eps using Gsview, the image is not placed at the center of the page, and even some parts of it are out of view. How can I save to eps in a way that end up with the image placed at the center of the page?
I'm using the pencil tool with a 1 px brush. I'm trying to fill in some pixels, but in the pictures below there are certain pixels I cannot fill in. If I use the pencil tool on them, nothing happens. I thought the pencil tool was to get precision. Why can't I fill in the pixels in the picture below? Also, the pencil tool when it does work, most of the time never places in the pixel in the right spot. If my mouse is hovering over the pixel that I want to fill, and left-click to apply, the pixel below or diagonal to the cursor is filled in! What is up with that?
I was looking at 3D printers and I wanted to know the maximum achievable resolution in 3D printers that use the extrusion method (NOT the 3D laser printers). Some manufacturers claim a 20 Micron resolution, with a 0.4 mm extrusion nozzle. I wonder if there are commercially available printers that can do better than that. 1 micron or maybe something in the nano scale?
With the Variables window in Illustrator you can make something a bit like a data-merge document with lots of variants for different records (InDesign’s data merge is usually better, but I have to use Illustrator for this, for other features that are in Illustrator and not in InDesign). After setting these up, you get an Illustrator document with a drop-down menu in the Variables window that lets you switch between different many variants on a template. How do I turn this into lots of static files (or a static file with lots of artboards), similar to the Create merged document option in InDesign? Some handy links on Illustrator variables / dynamic documents: Adobe help page Video tutorial (someone asks my question in the comments, but there's no answer) Tutorial by Creative Mac Example. Say, you’ve done the following steps in Illustrator, creating a dynamic document with variants: Create a chart with the graph tool, put some data in it. Open Variables window, select the chart, click Make Graph Dynamic and create a new graph variable. Capture data set from the variables flyout menu. Save variable library as XML. Put data in the XML – e.g. for testing you could just open the XML in a plain text editor, find the chunk from <v:sampleDataSet to </v:sampleDataSet>, and copy and paste it a few times, varying the data values and dataSetName. Reload the new XML variable library from the variables flyout menu. You now have a drop-down menu that lets you switch the chart between each data set you created. Let’s say there were 1,000 variants. How would you turn this into a directory of 1,000 separate files (any format: PDF or AI are both fine) with filenames based on the data set name, without manually switching and doing Save as each time? I'd have thought there would be an option, like InDesign Data-Merge’s Create merged document, but I can’t find one anywhere. Failing that, I'm sure that Actions should be able to do this, but I can't figure out how. If not Actions, maybe a script can do it. Or if that’s not possible directly, is there a way to make one mega-file with an artboard for each data set (which can then be split into separate files)?