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Me and my friend are kinda struggling a lot. We have a "overlay" PDF file containing a PNG bitmap image (no vectors). We use this PDF for automatic montages in PDFlib together with generic photos to create another print PDF. This PDF is printed afterwards. However, the source overlay PDF seems to have issues with transparency. On screen, everything looks ok, even the PDFlib output PDF looks alright, but after printing the document out, there are artefacts clearly visible on the transparent part of the overlay PDF. Other parts on the photo do not have any artifact issues, except these transparent ones. Is there a way to prevent these artifacts from appearing? Now, as I said, we put a PNG image into inDesign and export it to PDF (v1.6) afterwards. I will attach 2 images of, one is before the actual printing (no artifacts visible at all) and the other one is scanned picture of the printed document. Artifacts are clearly visible in that one. (Sorry for the crappy scanner quality that darkened the photo, but it will do. It looks exactly like the input, except the artifacts.)
I have a "rotation" issue with Illustrator. I've rotated some shape which has no horizontal component which I could align to guide, so I have no idea how to rotate the shape back to 0 degrees. In the case of multiple shapes (I've rotated letters) I have a problem to align them back. Any suggestions to solve the problem? AI CS6
I'm trying to change the pattern color from a very light gray to a dark blue. I've used the color blending mode, but the result is a washed out color. Is there anything I can do to have a dark color result? Here is a sample of what I'm trying to achieve Thanks.
To get straight to the point, this is causing trouble: The menu on top (work news about media) is a dropdown menu. The problem is that it has a white background, and the page is also white, and the text colors match too. This results in a weird, disconcerting and un-esthetic effect when the drop down rolls down over the page contents. The design is minimalist, uses only two colors and not many elements. This dropdown looks real good on a non-white background, such as on this page. So, we're pondering ways of separating it from the background. A border is an obvious solution, another pondered solution is reducing the opacity of the whole page when the dropdown is activated. Is there any other way? Edit: Removed the original link because the design is being updated. Will keep you updated...
So what I'm trying to do is make 23 circles in the same style as the image below, but in two concentric rings instead of one big one. The circles should be the same size and also arranged in a gradient. I know I could just "brute force it" and make them in the obvious way, but I'm trying to learn more about using Illustrator effectively and wanted a more Illustrator-y way of doing it that utilizes the tools and methods provided in the software. Specifically I'm interested in how you, the experienced Illustrator user, would do the job. You don't have to explain it in painful detail, just enough that someone (who knows how to Google) could reasonably reproduce it. Thanks! Note: This question previously was asking about Photoshop, but I learned from comments that Illustrator is more appropriate for the task.
I have a web application that shows a lot of information that is rather mundane. The information is related to data types that are hierarchical in nature, so there is some design around that in terms of listing nests of information under one another that are under each other in the hierarchy. I also have tons of lists of information that are stored in tables that allow users to manually search through them and sort them to find what they are looking for. I don't know how to display all this information. How can I present these groups that are nested under different data structures?
I have a small Problem that occurs from time to time. Sometimes, when I copy things or when I put an object from the symbol library on my page, the whole file gets messed up. The screenshot shows it. I make the graphic on the right, Illustrator the ones on the left. I have pixel snapping checked. Is there a way to tell Illustrator to align everything to pixels no matter what?
What is the font used in code editor in the Elysium movie? See here if the image link broke.
I want to align a textfield to the top left of a box, as per how the Grid Systems cover looks: The round letters in the headlines should overhang slightly. I am able to get quite close by using: Preferences > General > Use Preview Bounds and: Effect > [Illustrator Effects] Path > Outline Object The results of this are: However, it's not where I want it, I want to align the top-left anchor of the "I" to the red box, rather than the bounding box of all the characters (due to the round letters). How do I align a single letter within a live text path / object, so that the top left of the letter is anchored to the top left of the bounding box?
I'm looking for an icon that will clearly identify the "shopping cart" for an apparel store. A shopping bag? A Cart? Is there any other specific icon? If we go further, do you think it is better to display an icon? only text (bag / cart?) or both?
For school, I have to create a logo for a fictitious company I create. The company name I have been given is "Smash" or "Smash Games". It is supposed to be a gaming company similar to Activision or Electronic Arts. I had a couple ideas, but I cannot seem to properly incorporate them, and I'm not really "proud" of these designs either. I am fairly certain I want to include a fist somewhere in the logo, but this is not completely necessary. I need help brainstorming some clever ideas for my logo before I create it. I would really love your creative minds. I will post my (BAD (I cannot draw/sketch for my life)) sketches below.
I selected Crop tool and selected the area to crop but it is actually hiding the remaining area. After selecting i clicked delete radio button but that also not working as expected. I need to crop a part of the shape, my shape is a rounded rectangle..I need to get a rectangle whose two corners are rounded where other two will be square. So i thought of cropping from half rounded rectangle. Is there any other way to crop?
My work has been using CS3 for far to long so I finally got them to upgrade to the CC suite. This has been great but I only have one problem. I can't remember how to change the default PS layer to be transparent! I made this change to my mac at home about 2 years ago and just can't remember where the setting is stored at. This is how the default layer looks, This is how I want the default layer to be, Anyone know how to change this setting? Every time I Google it I get how to apply opacity which is far from what I was looking for.
How can I retouch photos of supernova veils to remove the smallest stars of the picture? The goal is to allow the viewer to focus on the central nebula remains pattern, without too many stars artifacts. Two examples are: My first idea was to use Adobe Photoshop for Blending Options > Blend if... and adjust levels, but if I raise the lower luminosity threshold to discard of less luminous pixels, I discard too the aura of the luminous items. I had no more chance with curves, but I have no real intuition or knowledge about how to efficiently use curves to achieve this result. This question isn't limited to a particular software, if a software is more efficient for this task than Adobe Photoshop, the answer seems interesting too. (*) Description: This Spitzer image transforms a dark cloud into a silky translucent veil, revealing the stellar winds from an otherwise hidden newborn star called HH46-IR. Spitzer's remarkable capacity to peer through cosmic dust allowed it to unveil this never-before-seen star.
the animation: http://vimeo.com/17535548 it's very much painted but it's 3dish...were all frames painted or some 3d software is capable of producing it... Animation does look very fluid. I am interested in learning to animate however not sure about which style to learn ... A still from the video from the creators' site:
How can I blend colors together with different blend modes in inkscape? I can't seem to find any options for controlling the method for blending colors. For example, how could I make something like this: In Inkscape using blend modes?
I have a graphic tablet and I need to create two brushes for calligraphy in Adobe illustrator. So I need to create the following brushes: A brush gives the same font of the a real pen such as Uni-ball rollerball Eye 0.7m. A brush gives the same font of copperplate nib (Brause EF66). Example
First, I don't know much about creating fonts. I work with a childrens book author and want to create a font from her handwriting. This means that I have to have more then one character per letter and use them at random. I've found ways of creating a font from your handwriting (googled) – but not that has this capability. Anyone with ideas?? Thanks!
How do you use the duplicate brush in Krita. I've got an X but can't seem to get further. The manual is not very comprehensive.
I have been creating my CV with Photoshop for several years now. I've heard and seen it myself, that this is not the right tool at all to design a résumé. I never used the other tools from the Adobe suite, but I'm thinking of InDesign, Illustrator, Fireworks. From previous experience, I have identified these requirements, I need: to define a structure/skeleton from the beginning; to draw squares, rectangles, shadings just like on Photoshop; to easily use percentages to divide my document; to move one part of the document and to see the other one follow. For example, I move down the header, so all the rest below will move down as well; to manage text alignments easily; to use lists; to perfectly align blocks; to output a very light PDF file. Which software will best satisfy the needs I have listed above? Which software would you recommend to me for creating a curriculum vitae?
I know Google image search is not a free-for-all to grab any image needed. However, many, many, many clients don't grasp this concept and often request or send images they'd like to use in a design or product which are clearly a violation of copyrights. I recently had a client send an image to me which, frankly, seemed too well done and too specific for the client to be sending. My thought was, based on the clients business, it was doubtful they paid someone to create the illustration depicted in the image the sent. So, I did a little reverse Google image searching and found the original, which actually won an award for illustration a few years ago. I immediately knew the image was a violation of copyrights and threw it away. I expressed the violation to the client only to be met with "Do a Google image search for 'XXX XXX XXX' and you'll see everyone is using it. Please use the image." When designing a piece and a client requests the use of an image they "found", and it is clear it's a violation of copyrights, what should a designer do? I realize this is a legal question but... Can the designer include a clause in a contract to protect themselves from liability due to these requests? Is this effective? In some cases, clients are fully aware that they may be infringing. However, in their words... "The worse that can happen is we get a 'cease and desist' letter. We'll remove it then." My ethics cringe at this. How should this be approached?
I use pen tool to draw around of shapes in my sketch in illustrator , during drawing I do wrong and the path is closed , I want to continue from one point of this path but I don't know how do it by pen here is a picture of my probelm
I am interested in creating a presentation that is based on a shrunken view of a large system flow. Each area of the flow, in turn, I'd like to zoom in on, explain in detail, then zoom out back to the overall image (wash, rinse, repeat). So my question is bifurcated: I don't think Microsoft PPT or open-source analogs can do this well, but if they can, I'd sure love to know: what's the technique? Or, if I am right and they aren't the tool for this job, what other tools are out there that can do this?
The user is allowed to enter an address. After that he is (next to other information) shown the direct airline distance to that place. I just can't come up with an icon that fulfills following: this is not a routing distance this is the direct flying connection this has nothing to do with airplanes takes up very small space Any ideas would be appreciated. EDIT: I'm sorry if this came off wrong. I really expected there to already be an icon for this, but I can't find one. Also I don't want to have anybody do my work for me. I'm just stuck, because I can't come up with something clever for this disambiguation.
I'm looking for a way to convert a notepad (multiple pages of hand-written text) into a PDF or other e-book type file format (DjVu?) that would preserve existing typography as well as allow searching and selecting texts. One more difficulty with it is a fact that pages I have got some hand-painted graphs on them, which would also require preserving in output format (these can be pure graphics) I got scanner and some OCR to make an initial run through it if required, but if there's and all-in one solution that can take scanned pages and convert them to ebook - it'd be great. Looking for suggestions what I can use :)
This is my first topic, so go easy on me. :D I got a customer who wants me to design her job application. I want to design it with Adobe illustrator and set up the text with indesign. However the client does not own copies of these programs, which then leads me to the question: How should I export the final product for my client, so that it is easy to edit in the future. Either for Microsoft office, or maybe by some easy freeware program? Any ideas?
My question is extremely weird, so please don't down vote before read it all. I'm a programmer enthusiastic and a graphic/web designer. 6 months ago, I came across an extremely annoying huge wall in my job: I make simple corrections to mistakes that seem to be a waste of my work experience (even if inDesign applies that curved red line - that silly red line that also shows if is there a word that is needed there): I can simple make a book in 4hours with money formula: 3hours +/- to design it and 1 hour to read it all searching for language mistakes --> the problem is just 1 hour is not enough to read it all, I deeply fear that all of text that I've simple read has a tinny mistake, and let's do it again --> the time passes and I start to think in all of my other works that are delaying a lot. Should I be expected as a graphic designer to proof read an entire book? I dunno if this site can be used for a discussion purposes (truly sorry if not), but I need to know what is your experiences and what do you all do in this situation?
Is there a tool similar to the warp tool but only to move points without smoothing lines? The nearest example would be the soft vertex selection tool found in 3D programs. A shape is modified within the brush area without smoothing lines just repositioning the affected points thus straight lines remain being straight. Is there a tool or a plugin for this?
I tried to find the font via whatthefont and whatfontis tools, to no avail. Can anyone identify this font: The font is Linhof's Technika camera's logo, if that helps. Not even sure if it is a font or just a logotype. Thanks for any help!
The Problem: I am working on a project and I wanted to add super fine print (words and graphics). When I say small I am not referring to 7pt type at 300dpi business card small. I am referring to something you would see on security items or the small graphics/words that appear on currencies etc. The Question: The question is would a 1pt word on a 600ppi document translate if printed on a printer that could print at 600dpi. Does this scale even lower at higher resolutions.
Everyone knows that as people get older their vision deteriorates. At 20 years old, few have trouble seeing and reading 8 or 9pt type in print or 10-11px type on the web. However, the older an audience gets the larger type needs to be, and the more leading needs to be adjusted, for them to read comfortably. Knowing the target audience's average age helps to design pieces appropriately with this in mind. What are good type settings to use in print for an audience 20-40 years old? What about web type sizes? What are good type settings to use in print for an audience 40-60 years old? What about web type sizes? What about above 60 years old? Are serif/sans serif a factor with age or is readability more universal where this is concerned?
I'm looking to define a website layout that's fairly common on a lot of websites but can never get the right word. The design is composed of generally a header banner (like StackExchange/Facebook/Twitter), a full width image, then seperate sections in a long-scroll. It's almost like an info-graphic on the web. Here's a few examples: http://inky.com/ http://www.psd2html.com/
I'm having an issue with combining/merging 3 separately coloured shapes into one. My goal is to create one shape (The letter C) while keeping the separate colour segments. (None of the shapes overlap as you can see in the photo) I eventually want to use Illustrator CC's "Live Corner" function to round the edges of the entire outline of this multi-coloured shape. Is this possible? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much, Aaron
I'd like to know if what I do is the correct process for what I want to achieve. I created some paths to draw the strokes of an illustration (a helmet). As these strokes are paths, and they can't be merged together, so I decided to use the expand function of illustrator. This way, I could merge all the paths and have something clean. The only 'issue' is the fact when I use this function, it generates a lot of useless anchors points. I want to also mention that I used the 'width tool' on these paths, to give some thickness at some places before expanding. I mention this because I noticed it doesn't create as many extra anchors points when I expand without using the widthtool. I tryed to use as well the simplify tool but that doesn't give nice result. So finally, is there a good workflow to expand paths? Should I have managed this differently? Here is a picture to show you what I mean: The color of the helmet is given by a simple shape placed behind the stroke. Once again, as a 'noob' with illustrator I'm not sure I did it well.
I am looking for online resources (no books please) that provide general rules and guidelines for web graphic design. I am pretty good at scripting (as far as HTML, JavaScript, and PHP are concerned), but have a serious lack of design skills. I need to know what looks good, and why. It is important that I know why it looks good so I can use that knowledge in future projects. I understand a lot of design is up to the individual, but I would like to think there must be some general universal rules as far as graphical aesthetics go. Thanks
I'm looking for a monospace font which has a lot of the unicode glyphs. In particular I'm interested in the speaker symbols, code points 1F507 to 1F50A.
I know that I can keep aspect ratio when scaling images by pressing the Ctrl key. But I really don't like this default. Is there a way to modify inkscape, to make scale and keeping aspect ratio the default? I created an issue: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/issues/1375
I received few PSDs from a designer who are using windows. The font is Open Sans, I already have it on my mac. I opened the PSDs, and clicked in the text layer: ..after that I edited the text, and the font changed, it seems smaller (it's still opensans, but different) I downloaded the font from fontsquirrel.com. Do you know guys how to fix the issue?
I'll preface by saying that I am not a graphic designer, so this question might be staggeringly obvious... I have several 100+ page PDFs that consist only of tables of text, and I am trying to change the font of all of the text in the entire document; however, this is proving to be more difficult than I anticipated. I can only "Select All" of the text on a single page, which means that I would have to repeat this process for each page thousands of times to convert the entire document. I understand that Acrobat is not a word processor, but I have to imagine that there is a better way to do this. As far as I can find, the native "Actions" macros in Acrobat don't have this functionality, and Mac Automator struggles with the task. Suggestions? (To give some context, I'm ultimately trying to parse/serialize the data in these PDF tables into JSON for use in a Python program by converting from PDF->XLSX->CSV->JSON. The PDFs use a strange font, so when I use the Acrobat XI Pro "Export to Excel" feature, the text is read with awkward spacing ["Lo rem i ps um" rather than "Lorem impsum"], but when I change the font to simple Arial, it reads correctly. Other methods like simple copy/paste or the Python PDF Miner module also misread the spacing. I am working on OS X 10.9 and have access to Acrobat XI Pro and Adobe CS6, as well as basic programming familiarity, if you have any novel solutions that achieve this same goal.)
As a made up example, say I have a client who really wants a pastel blue paper but a color print on top of the paper. She knows there's going to be discoloration, but still wants me to go ahead and design something for her. What methods can I use either in the software I use (photoshop, indesign or illustrator), or when initially planning out the design can I implement where as I can get an accurate representation of how the final piece will look once printed? Another example: If the paper the customer chooses for printing is off white (or almost ivory) how could I adjust the current color scheme of a design to print more accurately than if I was printing on brilliant white paper?
To make things clear: This question is about drawing pixel by pixel of what will be the skin of a game character. I want to create a skin for the player character of a game (Starmade) but it already features shadowing. The problem then is that I can't draw shadows as I usually would. I need to add "deepness" to the drawing without relying too much on shadows (maybe pillow shading?) or even without shadows, I just need deepness, how can I achieve that? Here is a picture of the default skin for reference: Note: Shadows sometimes fill only a part of the affected side. What are my options?
I would like to know what font this is, or the name of a similar font.
On my screen in cinema 4D I see this - Which is the low poly effect I want. But when I render it in the picture viewer and exported result, looks like this - Is there a setting to turn the lines off? Thanks in advance.
I need some graphic design advice on finding a quotable piece of information regarding the use of "highlighting" text on signage, which I hope you can help me with. I'm in a dispute with my local council about a parking sign where they have put some vital information about the charging period which the have "highlighted" on a sign with a generally white background by using black text on a grey background. Common sense tells me that this low contrast combination of black text on a grey background is not a "highlighting" strategy, but rather obscures the text instead. Unfortunately my local council has no common sense, so I need to justify my "crackpot" theory with a reference to some respected source, such as a typographical text book or learned paper. Can anyone point me in the direction of such a reference I could quote in my defence? Many thanks in anticipation of your support. Folks, Thanks for your answers and apologies to those of you who think my question is more legal than graphic. I'm new to the site and have no intention of offending anyone or breaking the rules. I have posted a picture on iCloud of the sign: https://www.icloud.com/photostream/#A3JtdOXmJK6Eto The picture was taken at night, so the obscuring effect of the grey background is even worse in my opinion. Would you think that the "evening charges apply" text is readily visible? I will go take a picture in daylight and try to get an accurate idea of the grey level, to use the "Arthur and Passini" contrast calculation kindly referenced by Yisela. Many thanks again for your input and help, it's very much appreciated by me. Paul
I’ve created a repeat square that uses rasterised vector illustrations, the reason being that placing all the illustrations without rasterising into a repeat square will make the file massive (1gb +) to the point of unworkable. When I started this project, I thought it’d be smart and more efficient if I were to vectorise these illustrations so I could easily change colours and assign PMS shades to it if need be, but what I’ve ended up creating are very large files (around 500-700mb each) that are slow to save and work with as the files use a lot of custom watercolour and bristle brushes that use transparency. SO, using raster images for the repeat square has been working fine for me until recently, when a digital fabric printer asked me to send them an unflattened file so they can make sure the colour matches a PMS swatch! I’m panicking and wishing I'd created these illustrations in PS. I wonder if, without rasterising, there is anything I can do to the bristle and watercolour brush strokes that will lighten the file size??? Any help will be greatly appreciated, thank you!
First of all, let say to you I'm pretty new to Maya, and I just started to texturing. My question is, everytime I move or resize an UV, every other adjacent UV in the plane get's distorted. So I'm asking if there is a way to turn this "feature" off As Johnatan asked here is the image http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800x600q90/546/y1og.png This happens with every transform, like rotation and moving as well... Thank you for your time
So, I'm trying to create a repeat pattern of a Balloon illustration I've done in Adobe Illustrator. I've got the singular file (balloon.ai), which weighs in at around 700MB. Now I'm trying to create the repeat of this pattern on a separate Artboard which will repeat these balloons, 30 balloons per repeat square to be precise. What would be the best way to import these separate balloons into the repeat square once (as they're the same file) without affecting the weight of the file and performance of Illustrator? So, in essence, is there a way to import that balloon.ai file and only have it use up 700MB on the page rather than 30x700MB by the time I've placed 30 balloons? I can't rasterize the files as the printer needs the raw file. Any help with this is appreciated. Thanks in advance.
The question is very simple, and it surprises me I couldn't readily find the solution by googling: I want to reduce the depth of field of a photo in Photoshop. I expected to find something that allows to convert the sharpness of any given area to a smooth mask, so that I can then play with the curves of that mask... but nothing. I only found a "focus peaking" action that uses the high pass filter (very poorly) and tutorials on how to select the foreground image with the lasso -__-''' What I was hoping for is something that allows me to smoothly simulate a real f/2.8 when the picture was shot at f/5.6. Which means that a binary selection (in focus/out of focus) is no good; I need a smooth mask that allows me to multiply the already existing blur.
I was told that full bleed laser printers do not exist because the toner is too messy. Today, I stumbled upon this video (it's in Dutch, sorry) that claims to do full bleed high volume printing. I couldn't tell if it was a laser printer or not but usually these printers are (or am I wrong?) This model is a little too large for what we are doing (approximately 4000 color / 5000 black per month). On the smaller models I don't see this "full bleed" feature. Have I been fooled into believing the salesman about full bleed and laser printers? Or are they using oversize paper and cutting it in the finisher (or something else)? Also, this business printer market is quite opaque for an outsider like me, is there any transparent comparison source (website or mag) for this niche?
I have adobe photoshop 6.0 and am trying to design a logo for a website that I will be creating shortly. I drew out my logo and the only issue that I am having right now is that the edges of the shape look pixelated. What I start with was a basic shape that had a white background and I selected it all with the select tool and filled in a colour. I also cut the shape out from the white background, so now there is no background present, just the shape of the logo. But the edges are pixelated and not nice and smooth and clear. Any ideas on what I can do to fix this? Thanks
Is it possible to take text that has been distorted using an envelope and copy and paste it into another file maintaining the shape? When I hit command+C command+V I am getting a grey fill in the shape of the envelope but no text. I am new to Illustrator and have been trying to figure this out (or find an answer online) for the past few hours. While I am at it, is it possible to edit said text once it has already been distorted?
I'm trying to create a repeat square out of six pretty heavy (100MB-700MB) Illustrator illustrations. When all six files are placed they weigh in at around 1GB. I need around 30 of these files placed on the page to complete my repeat square, but this is near-impossible for my computer (iMac 2011 16GB 2.7GHz i5) and Illustrator to handle without crashing. Is there anything I can do or turn off to help performance or rendering in Illustrator. I'm using Symbols to reference these files so there's only one instance of each file, but I'm still having issues. Any help with this is appreciated. Thanks in advance! P.S. I can't raster the files because the printer needs the .ai file.
I seem to know how to make a tile-able/repeat pattern in Photoshop easily enough, but I'm wondering if there are any great tools available specifically for pattern tile design. It would be a great feature to be able to see how the pattern tiles as I edit it.
I'm tinkering with a small booklet that contains an ancient Buddhist sutta text and modern commentary, interweaved in a form of reading monologue: some sutta text, some commentary, more sutta text, and so forth. For the sutta text I thought to use Caslon (link) but can't quite come up with a font for the modern commentary. Something light and sans-serif, perhaps, even italic? If not Caslon and a light sans-serif, then what other pairings would make sense? Somehow I'm not drawn to using normal/bold combination of the same font though. EDIT After I've accepted Andrew Leach's answer, I started poking around FontShop for a while. I quite like the proposal of using the same family in serif/sans, and for example Milo (link) seems to make for a legible reading type. The old sutta text set in Milo Serif Medium: and descriptive commentary in the lighter and more modern looking Milo Light Italic: In that case, should I use size variations of Milo Light Italic for headings? There won't be any more than chapter headings. What about table of content, and opening pages?
I'm busy on a WordPress site and have come to the stage to add the finishing touch, being the favicon. I'm primarily a developer so graphics and icons aren't my strongest point. What are the best practices when creating a favicon (in terms of sizes etc, I already have the design)? I'd like to accommodate for every possible device, be it mobile, tablets, retina displays etc. Also I don't want it ending up blurry so I need to know what pixel density to use and everything. If there are some Mac apps or online tools that will do this for you (and do it properly) that would be great as well. Otherwise I know how to find my way around Illustrator and Photoshop.
I'm really an amateur in graphics. However, I've already got the essences of raster and vector graphics. Now my question is how vector graphics are created and viewed. More specific, how do designers see the great advantages of "vector" over "raster" when they are creating their designs on a "raster" screen, and also how viewers get those advantages when viewing designs on a "raster" screen with "raster" file types and "raster" viewing programs. Is there a mechanism of vector designs to "be alive" in the "raster" cyber-world? Are vector drawing and viewing programs required for anyone who wants to step in the vector-world? Thanks in advance!
I have been given the photo below and I would like to know if there is a quick and dirty way to make the background more white. Because everything has a slightly yellow cast, using curves doesn't really work. Are there any other tricks I could try short of cutting the 5 items out, placing them on a white background and filling in the shadows manually?
Is it possible to make a square pattern gradient coloured background that resizes as a webpage grows downwards? A square pattern, dark color - light color - dark color etc and as it goes up it gets ligther (gradient vertically) and, the important thing here, how to make the pattern increase as needed, because I don't know much about photoshop but as far as I know I have to choose the dimensions of a project 900x500(«height) however, the height grows as I add stuff to the div container... (the gradient would also have to redo or something) Is this done in HTML/CSS or a photoshop setting? Or I have to make a big background and make it appear as user scrolls down?
How to Separate Every number into images from This Snake Ladder Using Photoshop Like in this photo, number 1 box image, number 2 box image... and so on upto 100
I want to make a basic square pattern background in Photoshop. However, I'm a real newbie at it. My plans are to make a 70x70 pixel square and divide it into 4 squares - each one with 35 pixels. Then paint 2 of one color, and 2 of the same but lighter color. How do I split it in half, vertically and horizontally? And when painting how to I block the other squares to not affect them?
I am new to Illustrator with little prior digital art experience. I am in art sign trade and am required to produce artwork (artboard) shapes, types, and lines to an exact area size (say, +/- 1/8 in. or 4 mm). For example, when I print specifying a 5" × 24" artboard, it prints out about 15% smaller on tiled pages using US-letter inkjet printer. How to create print output to nominally exact sizes? Your help would be the most welcome.
One of the most cited things I've found online is to create final advertisements in InDesign to send publishing companies because it will result in better text quality. Is this just for high end publications or when is this relevant? No publication I've ever worked for or submitted to needs the high end despite many asking. The "Media Kit" will say to submit with text files and whatnot but if I contact the actual graphic designer, the first thing they're going to do is flatten it to put into the publication. Is this just archaic language and thought? When is it actually important to create a final advertisement in InDesign? It seems very silly to me to create an ad in Photoshop / Illustrator and then rebuild it from the elements in InDesign for the final .PDF when I've yet to come across any print shop or publishing house that isn't going to flatten it anyways.
How do you change the default font used in GIMP 2.8 on Windows 7? The default font seems to be Sans Bold (which is used in a lot of applications that originated from Linux). I am not referring to the Text tool, but the font used by the UI. Any help?
I'm using a medium blue color for a large navbar at the top of a website home page. The logo and nav links are white/very light blue. I don't know if the navbar blue should be solid or have a gradient, and I don't know if it should have a drop shadow on the bottom (below the navbar is white color background). Are there any best practices for navbar effects?
I'm kinda new to Photoshop and in a tutorial for Pin-up photography is was told to enter 'Filters gallery', but it is unavailable and I don't really know why. I have a picture which I want to edit. Before that I made two layers by separating background from the rest of content and then I changed the layer with background to smart object and tried to access this Filter Gallery
What I mean by "stencilled" artwork is cartoonish glyphs for the background of a graphic, visible on this app page for Things or in the background of this graphic the Ember app page in the top banner. More than willing to pay, just haven't come across something like this.
I know that my question is could already be asked, but I can't find a clear answer. I'm new to Indesign (i'm coming from webdesign), and I have to create a catalog. Each page contains the photo of a product and the description. To generate my indesign file, i've used data merging, and it works ok, in a way. The only thing I'm not able to do, it's to have: on the left page: the photo on left side and text on the right side on the right page: the photo on the right side and text on left. It is possible without paying for plugin like easy catalog? Should I use XML ? What's the easiest way to do this? I've tried to check/uncheck the "facing page" option, before and after data merging, but the pages are always the same. Note : I'm using Indesign CS3, perhaps a more recent version has this possibility? Thanks, PS: sorry for my english...
I'm using Adobe Illustrator CS5 on a Mac, and I need to make the SK in the circle-shape transparent. I should be able to see the background behind the logo - through the SK. I bet it's super simple, but I haven't been able to find anything on Google, since I didn't know what to search for. Thanks in advance!
I don't know what is this kind of paper call (1cm x 1cm grid) but I am trying to find this kind of paper in A4. (After searching google for 2 hours) What is the name for a graph / grid paper is where the lines are dashed? P.S. I'm trying to practice my graphic designing class if anyone know where I can download it would be great. :)
I'm just wondering if anyone has insight in to what governed Rand's typographic layouts. It seems like they were often instinctual and not based on any grid system. I'm thinking of things like the El Producto ads "I fell like the Champ with an..." and others I've posted below. What would you even call this off kilter typographic style? It always seems very unique to me but I always find my tendency is to line things up nicely. I've attached an image of what I had arrived at for one of the festivals I was designing for. There are other elements that frame the piece depending on the vehicle it's being used for but these are the basic elements. Feedback is welcomed.
I was wondering, if you could help me with something in Photoshop. I want to bend an image, as it will be used for a border on the site, however I cannot find any guides (Maybe because the keywords I use matches for different guides). I tried to use Warp tool but unfortunately this tool makes more a mess, maybe because I don't understand that tool. I also tried the Shear filter, but this doesn't give the result I was looking for. If you can help me or point out a guide that explains this, then please :) I have attached an image that explains how I want it. Thanks for the answers, however I ended up with remaking the texture myself, even if it costs some time, I ended up discarding the bended images as it did not fit onto the project as I hoped. Thanks again, I do keep these tutorials from you as they might come in handy later :)
How do I separate the dot from a lower case "i" so I can re-color just the dot? I want the straight part black and the dot red.
I am doing an Android app, actually re-disigning it, because the previous design was terrible. I'm not a designer, neither the guy who did the first version, we're both developers, but I do like the good designs in the apps I develop, the previous guy just didn't care. I am doing a flat design, but I don't know what to put on the background. It has to be yellow, and I don't completely like the shade so I'd like to do something to it. Before it was with this color: #ffc400 And now I put a little gradient from sides to center with : startColor: #fdce00 centerColor: #fff400 endColor: #fdce00 Is it right for a flat design? I think it could be better, but I don't like the previous plain color background. Any ideas?
I am trying to edit an image I found online of a character. It was cropped, meaning it had a completely transparent background. So only the character was visible. I'd post the image, but I don't think it's appropriate to post here. It's like this, though. Only the image of the clover is visible, it basically has no background. It's hard to see since the sites background is white, put if you are confused as to what I am talking about, go to another website with a non white backgrounds (such as imgur) and put the image there to see what I'm talking about. Anyway, whenever I paste the image from the internet to Photoshop, it ignores the transparency and gives it a black background with weird artifacting around the character. However, when I instead paste the image to Paint.net, the transparent background is preserved. So I decided I would just paste into Paint.net then into Photo shop, but that STILL doesn't work. When I paste an image with a transparent background to Photoshop from Paint.net, it's background is replaced with a white one. I can't even magic wand away to white or black, because it makes the image look weird after removing it. If someone can please help me with this, or at least tell me why this is happening, it would very appreciated.
For weeks, I have been trying to achieve how to make this. I know how to do the gradients and the fonts and everything else EXCEPT for the zigzag circle. I only use Photoshop to design as I am really not good with Illustrator. Can anyone please tell me how to do this?
I am currently working on our company's design guidelines (which is much needed). At the moment I am puzzling on how to use set-up the logo's spacing. Generally using the height of the first letter as our measurement is acceptable, which is normally a capital and also a sans-serif. Our logo, which is a by-product of the design-by-committee days, uses a serif type-face. So my question is: Should I include the serifs in the spacing measurement? Without serifs in spacing: With serifs in spacing:
I have the following registration form: Since response from server may not come for about 3 seconds, I need to let user know that the request is being processed. What visual element could I use to do that?
I'm using Adobe Illustrator CS6. I can get you pictures if you need but here goes. I had a logo that I cut in half by removing anchor points, leaving me with just the left side. Then I selected all the anchor points along what will be the new center line using the Direct Selection tool. Then I tried to align the anchor points in a perfect vertical line using the Horizontal Align Right option in the Align tab. Then, I selected the entire path. Went to the Appearance tab, clicked Layer and then applied a Distort & Transform > Transform using the X Reflect. Everything worked beautifully except I have this very fine white line down the center of the image now. How do I get rid of it?
I am interested in becoming a creative director, but I have learned that it is not a job you can simply get straight out of college. Is it possible to become an art director and make your way up to creative director over time? If so, this is the route I'd like to take.
I've created a new car guide magazine, similar to this example. However, I cannot get the image to fit exactly to the page size, in my case 222 x 291 mm ( width x height) and it ends up looking squashed and stretched when I did 'Fit content to frame'. I can get images to work in InDesign, using the Place command, no issues there, but getting it sized right is the issue. I have tried Photoshop, and am wondering, is this the solution, resize images in Photoshop before using Place command to insert image into InDesign document? This is my image I am using for the background: Image here. I have got the text on my page and front cover advert working well (PDF embedded in page), it's just getting the background to work which is the issue. I would appreciate any help on this.
I Am a beginner in Photoshop. I don't exactly know the name of the thing I have highlighted in the above image. How to make such contents on a background image? Do mention if it can be done using any other tools. Thanks in advance.
Is it possible to convert a PostScript file to SVG? Based on an answer in Tex.SE, I tried to use inkscape: inkscape test.ps --export-inkscape-svg=test.svg This indeed produced an SVG file, but changed the font and removed the spacing between letters. As a minimal working example, I created a PostScript file that includes text only (although my original files contains both text and graphics). The following image shows the PostScript file (top) and the resulting SVG file (bottom): What is the correct way to convert PS to SVG?
I am trying to make this texture inside the penguin shape like this Now i know i can use a clip mask like this But i want to make it so the texture doesn't fall out of the shape, so the object follows the small patterns it now does this is there anny way i can make this possible ? Really hope someone can explain this to me. The shapes are all vectors like
Any other designers have suggestions on how/where to find photography on luxury fashion designers? I'm looking for legitimate licensing. I know the main sites like Shutterstock, iStock, and Getty Images. Where do you go about finding more industry specific photographs though? A lot of the stock sites by nature focus on broad topics and subjects for mass appeal. Should I just try to find a professional fashion photographer that might be able to license me out some of his unpublished pieces - where would I even begin finding that?
I have an AI file that contains several linked files, all sorts of psd and image files. The problem is I don't have access to any of them, which is okay since I don't need the files to complete my job. So, Illustrator always shows this message upon opening the file, asking to ignore or replace the files. Trying to replace each file is a no go, since there are too many and the names are dubious. So my question is: Can I clean all the linked file references some way? The file size is also very big for what it contains, maybe cleaning these nonexistent linked file references will chop the file size as well.
I have created a logo with pen tool in Illustrator but between lines (where they intersect with each other) there is a gap where it gets the color of the background. Something like this: (Black color is the background color) - As you can see where the paths join each other there is a kinda dotted black line. I Grouped them but still the same. I converted to jpeg just to be sure it is not only shown like that but same effect. NOTE: I want to export that logo as SVG file type and use it in the WEB. I tried some solutions given like anti-aliasing in preferences or art optimize when saving for optimization. But still I have same problem. I want to get that logo in SVG and put it on the web where it will display clean without those strange gaps. How can i get rid of this?
I'm new to Adobe Illustrator, and currently I'm trying to cut a letter off by an object. In the following I am going to explain what I mean: I have drawn a rectangle. I have written some text. I positioned the text over the rectangle, so that parts of the text are inside of the rectangle, parts of it are outside. What I now want to achieve is to cut off every part of the text that is outside the rectangle. Please note that I do not want to subtract the text from the rectangle - the text (at least the part which is inside) shall still be there. How could I accomplish this task?
I'm trying to change the "3" to a gradient, but when I click the gradient icon it just goes black and the gradient settings to not take effect. I tried going to object > expand but that didn't do anything. Here are screenshots. Selecting the fill works. Selecting the gradient does not work.
I need to illustrate a pack that rolls down 3 time at the top and can only use black and white and no words. I'm using Adobe Illustrator because it has to be vector art. End result will be screen printed. Here is what I currently have. Just not really feeling I'm getting the point across. You can see a bigger version of this image here It's a bag that you fill up with water and roll down the top 3 times and clip to seal the water in. The clips have to be a specific color. Every thing else has to be black and white. Can anyone else think of a better way to illustrate this process? UPDATE I ended up taking the dotted line advice and tried to make the water fill process separate from the fold down instructions. Here are the final results: You can see a bigger version of this image here Thanks for all the help!
I really like this stained glass effect on this font and want to recreate it. Please let me know. Thanks!
A simple example would be a map of the United States. If I want to overlay the state name, capital city, and population in their proper location on the map...is there a way I can use data merge to fill this in automatically? My only guess is to do the data merge in separate document in a standard block layout (state, city, population), then place each of these frames in the corresponding locations on the map. But if I were ever to update the population, I would have to re-place each frame. What I would like to do is be able to tell indesign where to place each subsequent record on the same page, similar to text overflow. Or even better, have indesign place information from the data merge based on keywords I manually enter in the appropriate location- for example, when it sees the state name (manually entered); the capital city and population would then be automated based on that state name query. Any ideas?
So you can have a look at that picture, in that picture, the middle men's face is half bright and half of normal colour. How to do that effect using photoshop? Please anyone if you know please elaborate in a step by step manner. What is this effect named as?
We're rebuilding an online platform for online commerce and are thus contemplating hiding the product menu (represented as a tree, usually with a depth of three or so) and only making it appear on mouseover someplace that attracts the user's attention. Naturally, we could just have it say "Products" in plain text, but a graphical icon would be a better fit with our overall design (a looking glass for product search, a shopping cart for check-out, etc.) The icon should preferably be pretty self-explanatory even if it's rather small. Perhaps as small as 16x16. I'm not a GUI designer, but rather a dev working closely to the visual design team. And my thinking is we might want to go with what I can only describe as "a binary tree structure with right angles" (I'm not good with the graphicy stuff), while others have put forth more mundande objects, such as actual trees, or stars.
The French passport background (and maybe other country one's) is a map with a very subtle red-grey centered linear color gradient. It's also crossed by many wave-formed lines. I'm looking for tips in order to create a similar background with my city map. Above a detail of what I'm talking about, but it's not exactly that: passport are made for not being photocopied. Maybe you can have a look of yours.
I am trying to create a realistic shrub/bush. My goal is draw one similar to as shown in pic below: Here is what i have done. I am using pen tool to draw a basic bush with green colour and then dark green shapes for lower region to show shade and light green shapes to show sunlight. But not able to make it look as realistic as shown in pic.
I have a poster that I want to print in A0 size. For technical reasons, the output PDF file unfortunately is currently not in A0 size. How can I print this poster in A0? Should I first convert it to A0 somehow before sending it to the printer (which I don't know how) or I can just send the file to the printer and there just simply select the A0 option in the printing menu and the printer would take care of it? I have used LaTeX to make the poster. Thanks
So I am pretty much desperate by now. I am a web developer and -designer, but I don't use Illustrator. I just don't need it at all. The file that I got from the graphic designer contains two artboards with several icons spread all over these. I need to export every single icon as SVG. So I selected every object, clicked Object > Artboards > Fit to Selected Art and exported that. I was a little worried because the SVG Code I got from that was very bloated and had so many paths defined in it, that I couldn't add classes to it without having to fear that I am doing something wrong. When I opened the exported svg to look if I did something wrong, the whole icon, wrapped by the artboard borders was there, with all the other icons below a grey overlay (!!!). So all the other paths were actually in every single SVG file. I tried everything but it just doesn't work. I cant go in 50 files to delete all the code. Any solutions?
I sometimes find myself using Gimp the way I would use paper. For example, I want to use blue ink size 1.4, anthracite 2-px pencil and size 20 eraser, to recreate the look of a school notebook. I don't want to use three shades of blue when I have selected the ink, or to vary the size of the pencil. But switching between these three is tedious. I have to choose the tool, the foreground color and the size. It is still rather easy when switching between ink and pencil. But the size of the pencil setting stays selected when I turn to eraser. And in other circumstances, if I want a thin half-opaque red brush and a sated thick green brush, I have to change everything when going from the one to the other, than change back when I need the first one again. Is there a way to save a combination of these settings, so that tool, brush tip, size, color and opacity are preselected and I have a palette I can use to switch between them with a single click? (I don't mean the predefined brushes, they only switch "tips" for the same tool). While I have used Gimp enough to be quite certain that there is no such on-board functionality, maybe somebody knows a plugin which adds it?
I made a pretty simple checkerboard in inkscape. It is just many boxes that have an outline that is 1 px thick. They overlap by 1 pixels so all lines are one pixel thick and not two. I did this on a 256x256 canvas. Now I want to export this thing. In the exporting options I chose 256x256 for bitmap size so that it is just a one to one copy of the inkscape file. However, when I export it, only some lines are crisp and black and only one pixels thick. Others are two pixels thick and are dark-grey. I suppose this is some clever function of inkscape that makes things look nicer usually. But I don't want this, I really want my svg converted to a png one to one. How can I achieve this? Thank you for your answers, Tony
I've read a bunch of blog posts and stuff on web design, but don't have any formal education or experience/training. In experimenting with my first website, I've found that having 3 colors works best. At first I tried just black and white, but that didn't look good. Then I added a color (blue nav bar), and it still looked like it needed more. Then I added a second color, and that looked much better, even when it was just a small element like a button or something. Finally, adding a third also had a notable benefit. Beyond that, the marginal value of colors drops off considerably, and even might become negative. Is there a consensus about this? If so, what is it? Also, is there some sort of reason for this? (I know it's hard to articulate why some things are aesthetically pleasing, so I wouldn't think so, but I'd still like to here theories!)

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