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I'm translating a document in Adobe InDesign. There is a sort of rule that make the word "Action" italic every time I type it in. Where can I modify that rule? I need to add a similar rule for the translation of "Action".
I'm aware that there is an international standard on how to display date-time, ISO 8601 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601). But we all know that it's not that common. Maybe it is in engineering, but certainly not in design or everyday life. I've seen quite a few ways to display time and one of those uses ' to denote minutes and '' to denote seconds. (Like in John Cage's 4′33″) I may be wrong but it seems obvious that this is "inspired" by notation for angles. Therefor I'm wondering wether it's ok to use ° (degree) symbol to denote hours. What do you think? e.g. 1°35' (for one hour and thirty five minutes) Additional information: I plan to use it to denote short time spans, durations. e.g. "It will take about 2°15' to finish X."
Is it possible to produce pdf files with InDesign that have interactive images on them? For example, the initial appearance of the image is black/white but once the mouse touches it, it changes to a colour image. Is this possible?
I am trying to export artboards as PNGs from an AI file. I have a bunch of artboards created, but when I try to export the file and use the artboards, the export dialog only recognizes four artboards. I've googled and searched all around and I can't seem to find any record of anyone else having this same problem. See these examples: However, when I try to export I get a dialog allowing me the option to only export 4: If I try to change the range to something like "1-8", it still only saves artboards 1-4. This same thing is happening when I try to save as a pdf, or any other thing in AI that uses the artboards. It only returns 4. I've tried restarting AI, restarting my computer, but it still does the same thing. I have Illustrator CS6, not the Creative Cloud, I have the single license, one time fee version. Anyone ever run into this issue? It's driving me crazy. Thanks for your help!
I often have a situation where I get a foreground image with a background color like this: I want to display this without the white background, so I set the blend mode to Darken: But now I want to color all the black pixels blue, and I can't figure out how to do this. If I set a Color Overlay style, it overlays the entire rectangle with blue. (I've tried just masking out the white, but it's very hard to get a clean mask because of the aliasing at the boundary between light and dark.) So, is there a way to work with just the pixels that are visible given the layer blend mode?
I have a logo which has a symbol and some text. The stroke on the text is about 15px, so nice and fat. When I use it as an SVG image in a page, it works fine, except that when I increase the size, the letters in the text start to bleed in to each other. I changed the text objects to paths, and grouped the whole thing, and now it works fine at all sizes in the web page, except that the font seems to be damaged. Here's an example: The font is Ubuntu. Notice that the letters T, A and E have corners cut out. What am I doing wrong?
I would like to create a (preferably conformal, but not necessary) curved grid like this: {Dead, unrecoverable image was here (not in Wayback Machine, and original image domain is now a parked malware site)} trying to match the outline of a curve I have: Kind of like the lines on an athletics track, but a grid. How can I do this? Any program is fine.
I work on a platform where users post requests and other users are connected with them, so they come and solve the first users' problems. Pretty much like a freelancing website. I need an appropriate icon for making a request - like.. a clock would be for fastness. My question is what characteristics would fit the case. Any advice, please?
Please, can any one Identify this font?
Is there any way to create real font set from the vector shapes created in Illustrator CS6? I have a set of the vector shapes - 26 letters of English alphabet, I can copy every letter to make title etc, but I wanted to create a real font to type on keyboard as usual.
Ever since I found designs that has this warped shadow effect I couldn't stop trying it out and see if I could do it. I've already done my research and I can't seem to get it perfectly. I'm trying to achieve this: I'm trying to achieve that shadow effect below the large image. It's on the green background. But so far this is what I came up with: I don't think it's the same as the first image. Well, it's not really the same cause the shadow on the first picture is on a green background but I'm saying, it's really not perfect like the first one. Please tell me how to make this perfectly. I know there are a lot of ways to achieve this but I am really running out of ideas. I already tried every method I know of. I already checked the said "duplicate". It's quite not the same as what I'm trying to achieve. I wanna achieve the first image's shadow PERFECTLY not similarly. I've already gotten it similarly now I wanna achieve it perfectly. Here's more of what I came up with: Okay, so this question is about modifying curved shadows to simulate a bulge that lifts high enough for some light scatter to soften the middle of the shadow. - user568458 ^ that is exactly the problem. Thank you for pointing it out for me user568458 An update: It's still not perfect but this is what I came up with trying what user568458's suggestion.
Is there anyway to make it softer? Everything else in the shot is crisp, but you can see the pixels of the inner glow pretty easily.
I'm a design newbie trying to make a logo for a video game I wrote. The game is centred around robots, so I wanted to make the logo a circuit board. I'm wondering if anyone can recommend either software, or a library of images, which can aid in making this? Something that would have a good selection of plugs, chips, jacks, wires/lines, etc. I'm sure it's possible to design something like this using vector art in Inkscape, but I was hoping that there was an easier way to get something quasi-realistic looking. EDIT: Some more details. I'm looking for something more like this as opposed to a curcuit diagram. i.e. I want the green plastic board with the lines of circuits running through, with places to plug in stuff and the black chips with legs for integrated circuits. I've tried using Fritzing, which exported to SVG, but was more for generating schematics rather than nice-looking images. The images it does use are CC licensed with an attribution requirement I'd like to avoid in my main logo (though if I'm desparate I might use them). I've searched wikimedia commons, but haven't found much. I am definitely extremely new and inexperienced and ignorant, so advice for where to start would be nice.
I'm trying to speed up my workflow by making vector points move in the opposite direction simultaneously when I have two highlighted. For instance, below I highlight the top and bottom of the arrow so they will move at the same time, except I want the bottom point to come up when I'm moving the top point down. Right now, they just move up together or down together. So if point 1 is at Y:20 and point 2 is at Y:10, I want them both to go to Y:15 if I move point 1 down 5 pixels. What it currently does What I want it to do
I'm running into an issue trying to join two different size lines together. I am trying to join them together but when I join them it changes the Stroke Weight of one of the lines instead of just joining them while maintaining their original Stroke Weights. How do I join two different size lines without it changing the stroke weight?
Aligning vertical centers: Aligning horizontal centers: How to align the boxes so that the space between them would be equal?
I had a look at Adobe Fireworks used in combination with "Dreamweaver" to upload a .html prototype on an internal server. It seemed to work pretty well. Plus is well integrated with the Adobe suite that allows to create new images quickly using Photoshop and Illustrator. There are tons of other rapid prototyping software but the use of the Adobe suite seems predominant in AAA companies. Which other advantages and features does it have that other (e.g. http://uxpin.com/) software don't have? Is there any other tool that has more features or advantages compared to the Adobe suite?
I'm using Illustrator CS5 on OSX. I run into this strange behavior and I can't figure out why it happens (and stop it from happening). This is what I do: Draw a rectangle Effect > Warp > Arc Set to -6 OK Effect > Stylize > Round corners Set to 6px OK Then, I take the corner (shift pressed) and resize the shape, making it smaller. Then at a certain point the shapes deforms.
I'm a beginner in 3DS Max and I want to start/improve my modelling skill!!! Any ideas for some objects that are both easy and use many modifier and technics? Thanks and have a good day!
Given a background color, what is the best way to determine if I should use black or white for the foreground color? For example, could I use a formula based on the HSB values of the color? It's for an app in which the background color is dynamic.
I've tried this applescript code for Illustrator CS6: tell application "Adobe Illustrator" make document with properties {name:"anyName"} end tell but couldn't affect the name of newly created doc. I do can create layers with any name I want, but the document itself not. Is it 100% impossible?
I am looking for a way to reproduce this gradient using css: Is it possible? I don't know how the png gradient has been done.
I’m looking for a way to reproduce a similar effect in Photoshop. Is there a filter that can produce this?
Just starting out in Illustrator and I want to make a shape such as this: The way I have done it is like this: Make a rectangle Move 2 corner anchor points Add anchor points on either side Move the recently added anchor points inward/outward Remove path (because I don't want some points curved) and Effect-> Stylise-> Rounded Now, when I go to remove the top anchor as a path, it removes the whole side. Is there a better way of doing this?
How was this animation created? Can someone give an example how to create animation like this one? Is it possible to achieve animation like this one using canvas and logo in .svg format? Is this some kind of masking effect on canvas or what...? Preview logo animation visiting apple official website.
I'm building a t-shirt website and I want to be all legal and stuff. I want to offer the customers interesting designs, like the ones from threadless.com or zazzle.com. So the question would be... where and how do I buy designs that I can later sell on my website? I know there are interesting sites like designcrowd where you can get nice designs for your ideas, but what I really want is existing designs that I can sell on my website.
To avoid printing single letters at varying sizes and measuring how far away I can see it from a distance is there a formula for determining what size font for a particular read distance? Is it better to take the midpoint between the ascender line and x-height or to go purely off of the x-height (since going purely off the ascender line could leave lowercase letters difficult to read)? How does vertical height play into this? Would I need to then figure the hypotenuse distance instead of a straight distance? For example if I'm shooting for a 20' read distance but the sign is to be placed about 30' up should I use a distance of 35' instead of 20'? I'm shooting for a 20' read distance for the headline and then possibly a 10' read distance for additional content depending on how it all fits on the active area.
I have a document that was saved as a InDesign 7.2. Now I have version 6.0, and I was wondering if there is any way to open it or convert it online to a 7.2 document and/or PDF.
Hi I am new to illustrator and created an image that uses "Skia-Regular" font. But when I save that image in .svg format, it changes the font type. And when I open the .svg format file in browser the font is completely different. Can anyone please tell me what am I doing wrong. I have opened the .svg file in notepad++ as well and it says font-family="'Skia-Regular' as well bu still the font is not Skia Regular.Any help will be appreciated. Thanks Image is also attached for reference
I have the image below with the red lightning effect a single layer. What I'd like to do is make the red transparent, but maintain pixel brightness, so that I can then overlay it on a red canvas, or blue canvas, etc etc. How can I keep the pixel brightness in this way? Currently, with it all transparent, it looks like this: http://renx.st0rm.net/test.php?color=FF0000
I have a document with images. I need the best quality/size ratio. Now I use the "save for web" feature from photoshop because it allows exactly that. When I place my images in indesign it looks great, and I sure know my images are small, but when I export I can't seem to choose "retain existing compression", so it wants to recode my already lossy png/jpg's to jpg again which really isn't helpful. Any solutions?
When I change a shape's border radius after editing the vector points, it snaps back to the original shape. Any ideas?
I have a photoshop file with many layers. I would like to put one layer on top where I can draw transparency, so that full white (or black) is rendered as 100% alpha, so it subtracts all the layers underneath. Is there a combination of blending modes, opacity settings, mask settings that can achieve this result?
Everytime I need to use font awesome in photoshop, I'll always copy an icon from website and paste in photoshop. I can print it into pdf and copy into illustrator as vector but I want them as photoshop custom shape set. I've copied whole text into photoshop but then I need to split layers to each icon in each layer and this will take a long time. How can I convert them all into .csh file?
I'm putting together a brochure for a job spec, and want to put a table with "Desirable" or "Essential" attributes on it. Not sure what to go with for the icons for Essential / Desirable though. It's for a teaching post so needs to be relatively sober/sensible, but want to go with something more interesting than just Es and Ds.
For some reason after working with a shape for a little while, the transform the points (corners, edges, whatever) get out of alignment. Notice below in the rectangle in the middle.
It feels like this should be a Photoshop feature (every point in a layer is either present or "absent", right?), but I can't seem to locate it. Suppose I have the usual many-many layers, and they're reasonably well-organized, but I need to be sure which layer a given object occupies, without knowing the layer beforehand. How do I do this?
I'm trying to create something with 3D, never used this feature before. I'm trying to change the grey surface to a gradient. How can it be done? This is what I'm looking at Thanks
Often, I want to write text over a background image. If the background image is bright, I use a dark color for the text, and vice versa. But, often the image has both dark and bright parts. So a dark text is unreadable on the dark parts, and a bright text is unreadable on the bright parts. I currently use one of several solutions, all of them are imperfect: Brighten the image and use a dark font, or darken the image and use a white font; the problem is that it reduces the beauty of the background image. Use grey text (as in this question: Is there a single text color that is acceptable on both dark and light background? ). But grey text often looks unappealing, and is still only barely readable. Use dark text, and try to position it on the bright spots of the image (or vice versa). This takes a lot of time because it requires me to position each word separately. Are there better solutions to this problem? In particular: is there an automatic tool that takes an image and a text, and positions the text only on the dark/bright parts of the image?
So in the picture below, you can see on the left (object A) and on the right (object B). I'm wanting to vertically center object A on the left of object B. Since object A is a weird shape, Illustrator puts the center accordingly to the bounding rectangle around it instead of the objects shape itself. So when I go to vertically center A to B. It doesn't quite exactly center the correct way (or the way I want it). So how do I fix this problem? Picture 2 will show you of an example of when I try to use the alignment tools.
I'm fairly new to Illustrator. I bought a vector graphic of a wolf for this logo I designed (see screenshot with purple on white logo). It looks good when it is quite large, but if I scale down the logo then my wolf doesn't look as good anymore - you can barely see his eye and somehow his fur looks a bit too bulky and out of balance for the image (see a screenshot with t-shirt design). I was wondering if it is possible to somehow increase the negative space in the wolf graphic without screwing things up, so that the purple (or gold on the t-shirt) becomes thinner leaving more of the negative space. I am concerned about manipulating individual anchors, as I think I'll make it look weird. Or if you could suggest how to improve on the wolf graphic otherwise so it looks nice and crisp when scaled down - it'd be most appreciated.
What is the design style called where they create form with simple shapes, usually triangles like they have done with the ground in the Chrome Maze Experiment Or like the images below:
I need to export a Photoshop swatch file to a human-readable document with RGB, HSB, HEX values and the name of the swatch. Is there any tool which can export swatches to this kind of a document?
I often find this kind of table to present a font, showing a sample of characters, the name of the font, a word (random?), and the alphabet. There's a lot of them in the Wikipedia page about the Vox-ATypI classification. Has it a specific name? Is is standardized somehow? Are there templates available (yes I'm being lazy here)?
I have been enjoying designing in illustrator a lot but while designing a home for landscape i found it difficult to get precise perspective for 'Home'. So the question is how to get perspective to look precise /right in illustrator cs4(below cs5 version). CS5 has got perspective grid but i don't have one.
I am having a simple issue from import SVG path to Fontello: 'id.svg' contains multiple paths/shapes. Please, make them a compound path, and try import again. So, I have this vector: What I really tried: 1) Search on Google ! 2) Unite paths in Pathfinder 3) Join Paths in Object > Path > Join The Results 1) Teach me other 2 options, none of them works --> Actually bring me to some kind of Fontello's forum, 2 unanswered posts. 2) Only group paths (once them don't touch each other) 3) Nothing happened. Is there anybody that already tried to import SVG icons to Fontello?
See the underline continues after each word before a line-break? How can I automatically remove that underlined whitespace?
It's not hard to make gradient lighting like this using Photoshop: But I want to make the lighter part as a point in the center, with gradient along radials. How to do it?
I am designing an app icon for an industry-specific business app that does primarily job management. The name is very likely to be called "JobCheck", which may become a part of a collection, or suite, of apps (ie., FinancialCheck, EquipmentCheck, etc.). I am aware of the overuse of the checkmark symbol, and would very much like to get away from it. However, with the word "check" as part of the app name, there seems to be this expectation that the checkmark would be part of the icon. It's just very difficult to come up with something unique with it. I have tried to come up with a few rough ideas and I was wondering if I can get some feedback on them. The company I work for already has its own company logo and colour scheme (orange and grey). I'm trying to go for the "flat" look for I feel like something is missing. Please please let me know how I could possibly improve on them.
I am wondering: After I rotate an element in Illustrator to an un-even angle, is there a simple way to rotate it back to an even angle later? Whenever I try to get a shape back to 0 degrees or 90 degrees, it always seems to be off by a smidgen. Any solution?
I'm currently using Fireworks for image manipulation and preparation, and I do the following tasks: Resizing the canvas Rearranging components, i.e. cutting bits out and putting them elsewhere Resizing components Exporting as PNG32 (an efficient PNG32 export algorithm is essential). Note this should support alpha transparency. Fireworks is great, but has dramas for canvases over 10,000 px wide, and some slight dramas for canvases over 6,000 px wide. 10,000 px used to be ridiculous, but these days with sprite methodologies and Retina DPI, it turns out it's pretty easy to hit that limit. Do any applications do the above and support massive resolution (10,000 px ++) canvases?
is there a popular website where I can order an interface design for an application to a fixed price or make an auction style request? Maybe something where I can browse the previous work of that designer? Thanks
This is the last time I ask the question about Applescript - I see that this topic is unpopular since none of my questions has been answered. Probably I'm on the wrong way, but scripting for Illustrator seems to be very interesting and useful. I found the way to set the color of a layer to RGB color - set color of current layer in current document to {red:45.0, green:34.0, blue:34.0} however, when I immediately execute this line of code - set currentColor to color of current layer in current document In the RESULTS window I get long numbers like these - {class:RGB color info, red:45.000001117587, green:34.000001773238, blue:34.000001773238} Thus, I cannot perform comparing operation between the colors. Any suggestions about color formatting, rounding the numbers/totals to the way I can compare current color with desirable one.
I am designer with 8+ years of experience in Designing websites. I am currently facing a down phase in my design skills. It seems like my design skills are going nowhere. It seems like I have to make my transition from a amateur designer to more of a Pro. So can anyone please suggest to me how I can practice to become more of a Pro Designer on my own.:)
I have made this sketch with MS Visio which looks like it is handdrawn with a pencil: How can I achieve this with inkscape?
I've always run into this issue, and diving into it a bit more today, I can't seem to figure out 'HOW' to stop the PS6 vanishing tool from pixelating my website mock-ups! I often mock-up web screenshots on devices for my portfolio and clients. (Perspective monitors, smartphone devices etc.) and I typically use the vanishing tool to do so. Problem is, the vanishing tool forces me to rasterize my image before its able to be placed on the grid, rather then allowing me to transform the vector versions of it. This results in a lot of jagged edges and major quality loss on type. My question is: is there a way to use the vanishing point tool with vector (or grouped) objects? If not, is there a better way for me to make these transforms for my mock-ups? Using the skew / transform tool proves to be time consuming and inconsistent.
After I put a drop shadow on text, then save -> exit -> reopen, I cannot edit the text. When I click on the Type Tool Icon and then click on the number, it just shows the paths. Any suggestions? Then when I reopen the doc, it converts the text to an outline. Note: File was handed off from a previous designer and is an embedded smart object within Photoshop and being opened from within Photoshop by double-clicking the vector smart object layer. This results in the file opening in Illustrator.
Is there some kind of test equivalent to what the FizzBuzz test is for developers, for graphic designers? That is, a short and simple question/task that can be asked/assigned just to determine whether a candidate has the basic skills needed to be worth considering at all.
I want to slice this element: So it's only, for example, 20 x 20 px. I can't do this normally; if I slice this image, and repeat it then I do not have a beautiful background. How can I slice it so, that in future, when I put this as a background in CSS it looks like it is a big image, without any repeating?
When I go Create New Layer => Convert to Smart Object => Double click on Smart Object thumbnail it opens in Photoshop as a .psb, but I would like it to open in Illustrator. How do I get all my Photoshop smart objects to open in Illustrator? I'm using PS & AI CC. The Adobe docs just say you can open in either of them. The docs aren't clear how to choose set one or the other.
I am looking to create an interactive image of a machine. I will be taking incremental photos of it rotationally at two different distances from the machine (approx. 20ft and 5ft away). Once I have all the images taken I will process them for exposure and whatnot. At this point I will just assume that they will be ".jpg" files. It's the next part that I need some help with: I want the website user to be able to click and rotate the machine as well as zoom in and out and pan up and down (similar to Google Earth). I would like the series of images to be cycled left and right as the user moves their mouse left and right to give the illusion that is is rotating, but it is in fact simply cycling through the images and essentially giving them control of the "animation effect". I am looking for a direction to begin creating this interactive image. So far I have not been able to find anything other than rotating GIFs or something similar that has no user interaction.
I love the site Emblemetric but I've read everything on there since it's not updated so often. Where can I find other resources dedicated to metrics and analyzing logo trends?
There are tons of sites out there with free graphics. You can find a bunch of these sites through freepik.com. It seems that 99% of these graphics use the CC Attribution 3.0 license. I'm wondering what the deal really is with these graphics, and the sites they are hosted on and their licences. I can understand if you are using someone's photo from Flickr or a free web template that you would put some attribution in the caption or footer. But when you are using one vector icon on a website or using a Photoshop pattern as a small part of some larger graphic... are people really expected to attribute that somewhere? I find it hard to imagine that people are carefully attributing things every time they use these graphics. Some of these graphics appear for download on multiple sites and they don't even attribute each other. How do I know that the CC license is real and not just a default license applied to every graphic on a particular site? My real question is: in the context of using one or two different graphics from these free sites as minor elements in a web or graphic design, is it really necessary to attribute someone, and if so, how do I know who I should really attribute?
I'm working on a game project which is based on a Kids daily activities and games. It needs obviously some cute graphics for which kids get interested in. Since I'm working on a low-budget, I need a very cost effective yet a beautiful solution for art-style. I cannot allow my budget to have art style exploration as it is a time taking task. I'm doing this exploration myself with references from other games and over internet. Does anyone know a very good place where I can find abstracts of various art styles ? I'm novice at art :( If you have any good suggestion for my needs, please do post here.
I'm using Photoshop CS4 on a Mac. I'm constantly getting this error when I try to save a PSD: Could not save "file-name.psd" because the file is already in use or was left open. I have to end up saving the file with a 1 appended and then delete/rename. Any one have some idea how to get around this?
I don't use Photoshop or Word all that much but, when I do, I end up sifting through the zillion fonts on my system (installed via various programs) to find the right font for the text I want to put into an image or document. As I sift through the list and I find the fonts I like for the current context, I write down the font name in Notepad or on a piece of paper. Then I go back over the fonts I liked and evaluate the best of the lot. This process takes about 30 minutes to an hour every time I do it, so finding fonts for just a few lines of text can take several hours to complete. I feel like this isn't a particularly good use of my time. What would be ideal would be a program that I could start up, make fullscreen, type in the text I plan on using and desired font size into a couple of fields at the top. Below those fields is a split window with resizable panes on the left and right sides of the application. Then all the installed fonts appear in left pane and the entered text is used with each font and resizes to fill the space as accurately to the specified perceived font size as possible (30px should always be 30px to the user, not 15px or 75px). As I find the fonts I like, I would double-click or drag-and-drop them into the right pane. Once all the fonts have been processed in this manner, then I would have a reduced set of font names to look at in the target application. Both panes could support "copy to clipboard" and then I could paste it into the target application, saving three steps of locating the font in the application's font list, punching in the text again, and setting the font size. A fullscreen application like this would save me a ton of time (e.g. it would have saved me about three hours last night) by rejecting fonts at a glance instead of having to step through each font one-by-one in Photoshop or Word and have the relative size of the text bounce all over the place as the font changes and making constant adjustments to the font size. Is there a program that does all of that on Windows? More simply, is there a better process I can use in the future that I'm not aware of that will help me find the right font more quickly?
I have a web page that has a list of columns of information. All columns have names and then some of the columns have items in them. I want to have an icon to represent Hide all empty columns Showing all columns All of the icons i see for hide look like "delete" so i want to see if there are any representations of "hide" icons that don't look like delete. And for "show" the only thing i see is an eye graphic which doesn't seem very intuitive to me. Does anyone have any recommendations for good "hide" and "show" icons?
I want a easy-to-use, drag and drop based website design/development IDE for frameworks like bootstrap, foundation, etc...
I wold like to get into the design industry and would like to work my way up to a creative director role. I have also considered art director. What entry level jobs would you recommend to get there and what career path should follow? I am am keen to work in a team, perhaps with brand management and advertising over different types of media.
In Illustrator I can't align an object with a stroke with an object without a stroke. It keeps popping over out of alignment. How can I stop it from popping over?
I have created one circle in illustrator but the circle quality if not perfect: Why is the quality of the border so low?
I've looked quite a bit for resources demonstrating how to fake spot varnishes and print finition in general (embossing, foil, flocking, etc.) on real mockups (i.e. no Photoshop). I would exclude binding from this since it's a huge topic by itself. I did find some videos for hand embossing on YouTube, mostly from the scrapbooking crowd but it works and I also found a method for foiling which required a laminator. I would prefer something low-budget that students can apply easily. To my surprise, I couldn't find anything much about faking spot varnishes except hearing of using nail polish before as well as this Yahoo Answer which sounds messy and more appropriate for a big surface: rubber cement masking and then apply a shot of clear spray paint, and remove the rubber cement mask. What are your preffered affordable methods for faking finition on mockups for clients?
I want to snap and or merge the lines to the circles in order for me to create a rounded slash \ type design.
Please help me understand how OS X Mavericks renders colors (or else how the Digital Color Meter app reports them). Following Bjango's advice on Photoshop color configuration for OS X, I found my way to this this tutorial on OS X color management, which included this PNG image which offers a grid of supposedly pure colors (I'm hoping stack exchange doesn't modify the image, which is available at the tutorial page): The tutorial page says you can check the rendering configurations of an app by viewing the PNG and trying to "Set your color meter to 'Use native values' and move the mouse cursor over each color swatch". When I open this PNG in the built-in Preview.app, and sample the colors with Digital Color Meter with "Use native values", I don't get the correct hex values! For instance, the blue box in the top row shows up as 0x3F, 0x00, 0xFF. I also see wrong values in Safari! Are Preview and Safari simply broken out of the box? I find that very hard to believe. Can anyone explain what on earth is going on? (I'm not looking for advice to use another app instead. I want to understand why I'm seeing what I'm seeing.)
I am facing a difficulty making a circular shape in Illustrator. When I duplicate a given shape in circular design and make as many duplicates as required, the last object stands out. I have tried arranging the shape to go backward and the next objects come forwards. But to no avail. Please help.
What is the best way to explain to a client that their logo is incredibly poor and amateurish when they seem to like it? They want to spend a fair bit of time and money developing new products,designs and marketing but their current logo is a real obstacle in making them look professional. I have tried substituting the logo with a reworked version during demos of new products and explained it as "giving them a new option". They simply preferred the version using their original logo. I have also been much more blunt. Stating that their logo is looking dated and doesn't reflect their business. The current logo style has no special relevance to the industry that they are involved in. They are not a major brand where it would cost many thousands to change their branding and merchandise so cost is not a realistic barrier.
I work for a printing company, and our webshop is missing icons/images for our products. So, I've finally convinced my bossman to buy a pack, but we really can't find any... here are a few examples of icon packs we're looking for. http://www.printdeal.be/nl/producten/overzicht http://www.zwartopwit.be/shop/all <== this one is truly awesome and uniform
I have this shape made up of lines (see left side of image). Why is it that when I resize it to a smaller size, it becomes slightly transparent (see right side of image)? Changing it to a smart object has no effect. Duplicating the resized one multiple times makes it appear opaque (as it should), but merging all the duplicated layers results in the transparent version. How can I resize it to smaller without this weird transparency? (I'm trying to make a UI kit where I can copy/paste/resize elements without their look changing. I would like to avoid Illustrator if possible.)
Is there anyway to break up a polygon into paths? Actually what I want to do is to change the colour and dash of certain sides of the polygon, but that seems like the straight forward way. I can't seem to make this work. I know I could draw the polygon from scratch but that seems tedious given that there exists a polygon drawing tool...
I am a one-day veteran at Inkscape, making some avatars/profile-pics, and also a complete nitwit concerning graphic design. I want to end up with 1024x1024 and 2048x2048 png files. Although I guessed my way through, and most things seem to work out, I am still wondering about some of the settings. In particular, I am somewhat surprised by the grid behaviour, which doesn't seem accurate or otherwise not really helpful. Which, for this purpose, are the right settings (in all the dialog boxes below)? I am also not clear on the meaning of dpi in this context.
I am working on different documents to create a Book. I have managed to fix all references, figures, numbering, etc But I do not know how to solve the following problem with appendixes: I have 3 chapters: Chapter 1, 2 and 3. I have 2 Appendixes: Appendix A and B. The numbering works fine when I mix them all, but I have a problem with the list of my Figures. It is defined as: Figure ^H.^#: so Figures are named 1.1, 1.2... 2.1, 2.2... etc But when it comes to the appendix they are 4.1, 4.2... 5.1... instead of A.1, A.2... B.1... because, of course, the appendix is considered one more chapter. How can I redefine "^H" so it is a letter and not a number in the appendixes? Of course this letter has to increase at every different chapter, such as the number does.
Let say I have 3 shapes in illustrator: A, B and C. I would like A to overlap B, B to overlap C and C to overlap A. How can I do that?
Sorry for the confusing title. What I did was scan 3-4 photos at a time and then crop those photos into new layers per scan and then I combined them all into one .psd file. So what I have now are several differently sized images on a larger canvas. This leaves extra white space when I run the Layers -> Files script. So now how can I resize all of the layers and save them as .jpeg files?
I have two images A and B which are similar in many regions. I want to create an image C so that B = C on top of A where C should be as transparent as possible. on top of is the normal layer superposition. So C is some kind of difference between A and B. If A and B are identical, then C is totally transparent. If A and B are very different, then their C would be nearly identical to B.
In Illustrator I have warped text in an envelope and I can't figure out how to modify the color. Is this possible, if so how?
The next project that we are coding in, we are making the UI flat, can anyone suggest some good fonts that would look good with it and which are freely available. I like the "Lato" font family. Maybe a few more like this?
this is my first question, cause usually I find the answer I'm looking for on the forums. That image was made with Sketcher effect with Pics Art app for Android. How could I mimic it using Photoshop? Looks much like the the refine edge mask, but I'm not able to isolate it. Thanks EDIT: Thanks to everybody contributing to this thread. The following sequence indeed got me very close to desired result: brightness and contrast up, photocopy, invert, smart blur, accented edges or palette knife, gaussian blur. Still, my result shows rather hard edges compared to the washed out effect of the original. Thanks again! I would like to vote you up, but I haven't got the necessary credits (15) to vote, sorry. EDIT 2: Original image.
In Illustrator I'm creating a logo to go in the top corner of a greater image. This logo is to feature as part of it a line across the top. The trouble is I want the edges of the top of my image to be curved. The lines however go over the top of the background shape and stick out. Is there any way to make this background shape act somewhat akin to an artboard? Anything that goes on top of it exists only on top of it and doesn't overflow.
Is it possible to add a hyperlink to an object or a layer within Illustrator CS6 for a later SVG export? I know about the possibility to manually edit the exported file and wrap elements with an <a> tag. But this complicates subsequent changes. It would be better to have solution that is integrated in Illustrator.
Edit: To be extremely succinct: How to credit imagery used on a business card or ballpoint pen? Inspired by this question, I started to think: How do you attribute and give credit, when you use images and resources that are Creative Commons, copyleft; are in the public domain or have variation of "free" licensing? (Some of the answers to the above questions grazes that question but it is not really the main issue in that question). How do you attribute - say -: a background tiled image for web? a background tiled image for print? (the point here being tiny-weeny images) an icon set web? an icon set print? To make it more fiddly: tiny images you might use for t-shirts, printed objects such as ballpoint pens, t-shirts, keyrings, letterheads? For web; there seems to be divided between those who think that in the source code is fine and those who do not. For web you could make a link somewhere discreet that says "credits". This does not really work for print. If you enthusiastically stand on the shoulders of giants, and use what is legally yours to use, your printed leaflet would be bogged down in 6point text attributions. (Yes, there are differences between countries; I am asking on a general note.) Edit: I could add GNU licenses, but that is usually pretty straightforward, as it is mainly concerned with software, code, programming snippets, digital programmable objects etc.
I have a mesh and it has VertexPaint modifier. How I can set values on a per vertex basis? I tried to select a single vertex and looked for any property I can change to change its coloring. I need to export it to fbx format and read it from my program.
When placing a *.ai in InDesign, InDesign auto-crops the frame if part of the Illustrator artboard is empty. Even if I outline the Illustrator artboard with a no-stroke, no-fill rectangle, InDesign will lop off the part where it sees no ink. Is there a way to have InDesign respect the Illustrator artboard size?
I am originally a programmer, so I don't have much experience in Photoshop. I have always wondered how to display all layers as multiple 3D-planes (see below). Do I have to use a plugin or macros? I want to accomplish this so that I can have clean document of my (game's) UI design plan. I have over 20 layers.
Could anyone determine this font used for categories in the picture below? I used www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont, but didn't succeed in font identification. This service has showed wrong font-families. Thank in advance. P.S. This question is duplicated from Tex.StackExchange
I've been freelancer for many years as a graphic designer and web developer. In the last few days I've found myself filling a huge portfolio for a creative company - videos, websites, branding and even smart designed contents are the four elements to a flat, nicely designed and motivational portfolio. While I was filling their portfolio, I asked my client if they wanted ALL of their works included in the portfolio. He said that every company needs to show all of their works, even a small red circle on a giant yellow paper. Two details: Even the possibility of user selected which type of element they want to see, the portfolio was very huge: +40 products per type Had some TINY projects with ~0 hits (eg: flyer for Fair Sausages)
I am a recently graduated graphic designer. I would like to know if there are any worthwhile websites that I could present my portfolio and receive or look for job offers. I have came across the following freelancewebsites by searching the web that seem to meet my criteria: DesignCrowd Design Week: Freelance jobs oDesk: Freelance Graphic design Jobs Online Craigslist (the most famous website for people seeking for employers and employees) I've also found two articles providing reviews on these types of sites: 50 Freelance Job Sites For Designers & Programmers – Best Of 17 Great Websites to Find Freelance Jobs I am new to the online freelance market. As a result, I don't have any clue which websites are mainstream for graphic designers and illustrators (which are my specialties). It's not immediately discernible to me which sites are the ones that are not a scam and are also good place for establishing myself. I'm mainly looking for the resources that experienced designers are familiar with. I'm looking to narrow it down to the ones that have been used by those established in the industry. As a result I decided to consult the matter here and ask for input.
So I started making animated gif images for a little side project lately and encountered a problem for which I couldn't find any information online. Basically, since the subject in the future gif is diagonally moving across the image, I moved the layers sideways on some frames to negate the horizontal moving and keep the subject in the center (more or less). I did this because I wanted the width of the image to be smaller than the height and keep the subject always in the center. I don't know if there is a better way for "motion tracking" in photoshop (It would be nice if I knew one though), because I'm pretty new to generating animated images. After that process, in most frames one side of the image was empty, since i moved the layers in the direction of the other side. So I finally tried to crop the image to finish it and encountered the problem: those empty parts of the image remained, they somehow moved themselves to the new set broders of the image, and through this, they deleted parts of the actual subject I wanted to portrait. This was somewhat unexplicable to me, because I always thought cropping an image would completly ignore the left out parts of an image and delete them. I hope what I'm saying is not to hard to understand. English is not my first language and I dont know any photoshop jargon. So my question is basically how do you crop a gif correctly after moving some of the layers, and is there something I might have overlooked. I hope you can help me with this, and otherwise I'm sorry for having wasted your time. EDIT: to clarify the problem a little bit, imagine a video in landscape format video which I imported in photoshop with the import "video frames to layers" option. Now, the subject to which I want to limit the image to moves from the upper right corner to the under left corner (not all the way though). My final product should be a portrait format animated gif which should always have the subject in the center. So what I did was moving the layers a little bit to the right, every following frame a little bit more. Thus, in the left side of the canvas appears a thin line of "empty nothing" (I dont know how you call this in photoshop jargon), which gets thicker with every subsequent frame, because the layers are moved to the right, so there is no "image" in that part of the canvas. Finally I had the subject centered in the canvas on every frame, so I tried to crop out the rest of it (right and left side, I left the height as it was) to have only left the center of this image, with the subject on it. But this didnt work out as planned, because the empty part on the left side was in the now portrait format image as well. Basically, the left side of the final gif is empty in the same way the uncropped image was, deleting important parts of the final product. I hope this explains it.
Let's see if I can explain this graphical economy question I have correctly. I'm new to the field and it's worth mentioning this is pure curiosity, and my examples are - as you will be able to tell soon - completely made up. How many variables can I represent graphically before my graph loses communication quality? Supposing my audience is, for example, Sunday newspaper readers. Suppose I have this set: Weight (x) / Age (y), and two individuals: Jane, 10yo, 30kg; and Joe, 20yo, 60kg. The graphical representation could be something like this: Now, I know I can add another variable using the size of the circles, so if I want to add a representation for how many burgers Jane and Joe eat a week (10 and 20, respectively), I could have something like: And I can even use shape or color + size to add a fourth variable, for example if they eat more cheeseburgers than beef burgers (limitation here is that the type of burger is a boolean, with only two possible values), but anyway: And this where I think it starts to get messy. Adding shapes to the combo to represent a fifth variable would risk the 'ease-of-comprehension' of the graph. When I look at the graph, my (particular) brain only processes maybe 2 or 3 variables, no more. Do they eat combo or just burgers, for example?: I thought of maybe a 3rd dimension, but that would look just terrible. I might be thinking about this in the complete wrong way, and chances are I am missing something quite obvious here that I cannot grasp (for example, if trying to represent more than 3 or 4 variables is just wrong as a practice), but back to my question(s): Is 4 (maybe 5 if the graph is very simple like mine) a reasonable number for maximum variables represented at the same time in a two axis chart? Are there other graph types that allow for more variables without losing clarity? Is there a good example of a chart that successful represents a large number of variables?
The billing/invoicing/time-tracking software I use, iBiz, is no longer being supported by its manufacturer. I am a freelancer, so I need software which allows me to: Track time on jobs Track tasks on jobs Automatically fill in a rate for a task (not all tasks are the same hourly rate) Add notes about a job Put in flat-rate items Organize clients, preferably by allowing me to have more than one point of contact in a company Generate invoices Record payments and log them against invoices Customize the invoices with a logo Generate earnings reports for tax season Cost is not an enormous issue, although I'd rather not spend several thousand dollars. I do not want something online or cloud-based. I want something I can buy, once, and download, once, and which works offline. I do not want to pay a subscription fee. I do not want something which is a web app, because if the company disappears, so do all my records. What are your suggestions? What experience have you had with the software, and why would you recommend for/against it? I am in the U.S. working on a Mac, so the software must be Mac-compatible.
I'm currently trying to get permission to place various clients logos on a website, should I also ask for permission to place their logos into a image sprite together with other logos? My reasons for concern stem a little deeper, because the various different clients could loosely be considered as competitors and the clients themselves may share that sentiment. The clients are all luxury retail outlets based in the UK, that's the most I can say. I have never heard of them being considered as competitors of each other, but I am aware that they have overlapping interests. Additionally, by asking for permission to do this, I may bring something to their attention that they otherwise wouldn't have cared about. On the flip side, a sprite sheet is just a technical means to an end, and no affiliations will be insinuated in their use together. So will they have grounds to cause a stink if I don't inform them that I'm using their logo in this way, even after they've granted me permission to use it? I know there aren't any/many lawyers here, I'm looking for a logical solution.

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