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I like to make graphics for apps. I generally start with Illustrator and move to Photoshop for some little finishing touches. I then save all of the assets as .png files to be used by the developer. (This is a process to say the least, especially with all of the resolutions required for Android) Now, Slicy exports PSD elements as assets for your website or app, you just rename your layer groups once and let Slicy do everything else. Cut&Slice me does similar but for Windows. Do other designers use this software or similar? If so, why? If not, why? Slicy website Cut&Slice me website
Say for instance I have pressed Print Screen and cut the following image: Now I wish to scale this down to about 338 width and 338 px height. However when I do this in Paint (I know, noob program) I get the following result: Which looks somewhat compressed and ugly. So my question is: How would you go around doing stuff like this? Are there any free programs that can help you?
I'm making a manual for a web-based app. I take screenshots and put them into adobe illustrator and they lose their quality extremely fast when zooming in. Is there any way I can take high resolution or vector based screenshots that don't loose image quality when zoomed in? This seems to be only a problem with Illustrator, with Photoshop when I zoom in it gets slightly fuzzy but that's it.
When I try to align various layers in GIMP 2.8, sometimes the align tool selects the entire image, not the layer I clicked on. It doesn't matter how many times I try, and closing/reopening doesn't solve the problem. I've not yet discovered any regularities, it just seems to happen at random regardless of layer contents, size or position. It even happens with layers I'd previously aligned without issue. Why does GIMP do this? Can it be fixed?
I just learned about both global process color swatches and spot color swatches (which are inherently global) in Adobe Illustrator. My question: What is the difference between the two? When should I use a spot color and when should I use a global process color?
I am redrawing the character on the following picture via Illustrator: Regarding the stripes on the shirt, I already tried to create it by creating a white and a blue linie and using it as a fill, but this doesn't allow me to adjust the stripes to the shape of the character's body. So my question is how to professionally create the shirt pattern so that the stripes adjust to the body shape. I am a newbie in Illustrator and would be very happy about a step-by-step explanation...
I have some Illustrator art, and it's too complex (it has too many objects in it). It's too hard for the hardware to render it. How can I convert all those objects into one to make it lighter?
I need to perform via applescript some action on all items inside the Illustrator document apart of groups. When I set my counter as "repeat with i from (count page items of current document) to 1 by -1" should I subtract the number of groups inside the document? In other words are groups included in "page items"?
I just purchased a font and now they are saying I need to go to Illustrator and go to my "glyphs" to get the "extras" of the font.... well I dont have Illustrator... nor do I know wth glyphs are?! Anyone know if ps6 has glyphs? the font is purchased was: https://creativemarket.com/L_Worthington/12122-Charcuterie-Cursive
Is there a fairly simple way to divide a circle into equal parts using Adobe Illustrator CC?
I have several text elements that I would like to resize at the same time, but I can only seem to select and change them one by one. This is tough because I need to select, change, deselect, reselect, etc, which is a lot of unnecessary mouse clicking.
A question about using adobe illustrator cs6... Basically I want to be able to put images I’ve drawn (simple outline drawings.) in to illustrator, having scanned them on to my desktop, turn them in to vectors so as to be able to resize them to any scale, and then once I have scaled several different images, bring them on to one screen to create a composite image. I’m sure this is very simple if you know how, but I haven’t the slightest clue when i comes to illustrator! Any help would be amazing.
I am working on a character and the mouth looks like this so far: My problem: The upper and lower teeth booth go beyond the black part. My goal is to neaten the mouth up so that it has a linear form and no parts stick out into the brown part as the teeth do now. My idea was to take the black shape, copy it in front and somehow to achieve that all parts outside the shape's form vanish. I just want to neat up the mouth. But I haven't found out how to do this. Any ideas?
I've been a graphic artist since 2002. Since then, I've had a difficult time finding paying clients to the point that I changed careers. However, I missed working as a graphic artist and got back into it recently. However, I've encountered the same challenges this time around. I'm wondering how and where can I find paying clients online? I've tried Craigslist, DeviantArt, eLance, etc. I'm wondering which sites other designers have successfully found paying clients on.
We all know today the devices have different ppi. Traditionally a pixel is a point, which is 1/72 an inch. But today, iPhones have 326 pixel per inch why the point should remain the same for typography practice (12 pt is readable on a desktop monitor but would be too small for iPhone, instead we need 54 to 55 pt on the art board). This is bad because if I design for multiple devices, I have to change the typography across the art-boards to match similar visual outcomes. Photoshop has provided solution to this issue a long time ago. I wonder if there is some hack we can do to accomplish the same solution in Illustrator.
I have been working on using Blender Cycles to bake textures but it renders very slowly so I have to render at low resolutions. This is fine for the indirect diffuse lighting but really makes a mess of high resolution/high frequency textures. To deal with this, I would like to only use Cycles to bake a low-res diffuse texture and then scale it up to match the high-res base texture and combine them using GIMP. Unfortunately, none of the simple default layer combining methods work very well for this. Darken, and Multiply work well enough for the brightness but ruin the color. I assume that I will have to use several layers in combination with different settings to achieve this but I'm not sure where to start. Here are some textures. I'd like to combine the first two textures in a way that achieves the results shown in images #3 and #4. (i) a basic colored procedural texture baked with no lighting(Blender Internal). (ii) a texture baked with Cycles diffuse lighting only (iii) a texture baked with both of the above(this is what I'm hoping to avoid), I would like to use GIMP to get this result using textures (i) and (ii). (iv) The final scene with lighting baked in using the textures that were baked the same as image #3.
I have a multi-page document set up on logically ordered layers (background, photos, type, etc. in ascending order, so type on top). On some pages, text wrap works perfectly! On other pages, the text wrap will flat-out not work. One of the following will happen: If I set the text up, drop in placeholder text, it shows. I add a photo, it shows as under the type. When I attempt to text wrap it, the text disappears, but the photo shows, as does the outline of the text box. If I drag the same photo and text outside that particular page, the text magically appears and is wrapped correctly. If I drag it back into the appropriate page, the text disappears as mentioned above. If I go to Object/Text Frame Options and check mark the box, "Ignore Text Wrap", the type disappears. If I uncheck the box, the type appears again but runs across the photo. Worst case scenario, "Ignore Text Wrap" undoes ALL the correct text wraps that already exist in the rest of the document. I have tried copying/pasting a 'good' set of photo + text wrap into a new page to only have it undo the text wrap on ALL pages. (Thank goodness for Ctrl+Z!) I've been searching for a solution for 2 weeks to no avail. Any clues out there? No threaded text exists at this point (one problem at at time, oy!), no hidden objects, nothing overly complicated. I sure hope someone has an answer. Thank you in advance.
I want to replace the blue part of the image with red. I've tried this using a combination of the Magic Wand tool and the Paint Bucket but that doesn't work well. Can somebody please help me out?
I have never done this before so bear with me. I am a Graphic Designer who started a business 3 years ago with a woman. We created and designed the whole 'program' together. Since the inception of this business, I have been titled as "Co-Founder". Because I was the Co-Founder and had no money to put into the business I did all design work (including and not limited to: photography, logos, pamphlets, business cards, posters and basically everything we needed for this business I was doing) for pretty much nothing. I had been paid in the first year or so, but a very minimal amount. Long story short, it's gotten nasty and she is now trying to say I am not the co-founder and that all design work is hers (design work was done under the impression that I was co-founder). However, I have never signed over any IP to her, and she has not paid me in 2 years for design work. I was wondering if anyone had any advice for me? Who really owns this work, and if it became legal - am I the owner of said design? Is there any links that I can send her to educate her on this subject? EDIT: No contract, and I live in Canada. Ive been trying to make up some conditions and protect myself within the business, and want to say that If she doesn't meet my requirements that I will take my stuff and leave, but I need to make sure I'm actually able to do so. This is worst case scenario ... I have never wanted this to happen, and never thought it would. Thats why no contract was made up.
I am using Adobe CS6 and have been using the "Export" function within InDesign for many years. I am tired of creating brochures in "Printer's Spreads": [Blank Page] [8,1] [2,7] [6,3] [4,5] I want to create the brochures in "Designer's Spreads": [Page 1] [2,3] [4,5] [6,7] [8] I know InDesign has an option "Print Booklet" that lets you create in "Designer's Spreads" and export the PDF in "Printer's Spreads". The Problem Whenever I export using "Print Booklet", I always get these thin outlines of background objects on my PDFs. I do not get these when I do a standard "Export" which is what I have been using the past few years. I've verified as best I can that I am using the same options and Adobe PDF Presets when exporting PDFs (ex: Smallest File Size, High Quality Print). I've checked all the print settings under "Print Booklet" including (Print Booklet -> Print Settings -> Setup -> Adobe PDF (Preferences)) Question What are these lines and how do I get rid of them? Including an image to help show what I am talking about:
I have Illustrator CS6 and want to install some common plugin. This plugin needs Extension Manager installed. How can I detect if Extension Manager exists on my Mac?
Can someone please help me identify this font?
I have never - technically - bought a font for personal use (I can state that in shame, all the fonts I've bought were for clients or came with software I own). It's now time to spend some gold coins on nice typography, and I was wondering if there are foundries that offer font packs or bundles. I imagine the bundle to be something like: Popular font + Less popular but quite nice font + 3 or 4 little ones. I would even prefer acquiring less known fonts, like these beautiful Canadian ones. And while some classics are good, I'd bend more towards new fonts (designed in the last 3-5 years). Any recommendations on what's the best way(s) to buy these font bundles? My gold coins are quite limited, I must say. The use I want to give them is mostly personal projects (graphic experiments).
In my case, I am planning to design how a website looks; I am a bit of a newbie. I'd love to learn :) Are there any books that I can refer to?
I'm working on an infographic that depicts a satellite "beaming" down a video signal to a receiver on planet Earth. How exactly would one design this video signal? I don't want the viewer to think the beam is a laser beam, and I don't want it to look like a particle beam, or a light beam from a UFO, etc. How would you draw/illustrate a beam or streak that conveys to the user that it can't be seen by the naked eye, yet, it illustrates that data is being transmitted? Also, if anyone knows of a Photoshop tutorial out there that I could follow to create it, that would be great! Thanks for your time.
Is there a way to duplicate layers in Photoshop, similar to Illustrator? In Photoshop & Illustrator you can use the select tool and press the alt key to move and duplicate a layer. But in Illustrator after I duplicate the layer I can press Ctrl D to keep duplicating the layers in a equal distance apart. Indesign can also do this by pressing Shift, Ctrl, Alt & D at the same time. As far as I know Photoshop can not do this. Does anyone know if this can be done in Photoshop?
I am running Photoshop CC on Mac OSX 10.9.1. Today I opened one of my PSD files this morning and all of a sudden, these artifacts appear in some layers that have some effects on smart objects (but not limited too). Is this something someone experience? can this be fixed for this file? I tried fixing it myself but new ones appeared.
I have been seeing a major trend in these types of fonts, the bold cursive ones. I have been going through many and so far I have found Pacifico an Honey Script. I have tried using font identification websites but they don't seem to be able to find the letters in cursive fonts. An example is the Dunked logo. Of the top of my head I can't think of any more examples. I know the dunked logo isn't Pacifico or Honey Script. I have a feeling people are using the same few fonts as each other. Can anyone tell me what font this is and similar ones fitting the rounded bold cursive style?
Can anyone tell me what this font is or which is similar?
I use Adobe's Creative Cloud to generally resize images...but I came across a strange use case. I want to resize a graphic of mine...but not using a standard scaling formula. I want to resize my image pixel by pixel through some pixel scale factor. So, if my image has one pixel, and I resize it by a scale factor of two, I would expect one pixel to take up four pixels, and so forth. But when I try to double the scaling on an image in Adobe Fireworks, for example, the image compensates some pixels to a different color. So how can I achieve a pixel scaling effect like this?
I'm designing a box and I was wondering how I could place my graphics and text on it. I was curious about the printing process involved in getting the design on the box I built. I googled "how to build a box", "how to design a box". It just shows me how to build boxes using paper and how to create the design in Illustrator/Indesign. It doesn't speak about the printing process involved. Is it something you can do at home ( using your own printer)? I'm using bristol paper to make the box.
I'm trying to duplicate and scale a rectangle I created with arc corners to create a series of thinner lines inside. The problem is when I start scaling the lines the arcs don't equally line up with the larger outer arc. I held shift+alt down to scale uniformly toward the center, didn't work. I tried using the "Scale Stroke & Effects" option in the transform dialog but that didn't help. Any idea how to do this without having to create this multiple times?
This problem keeps coming up again and again. I have tried to use the Dither checkbox in a Layer Effect in Photoshop CS6+ but that doesnt always work so well. And applying a grain effect or noise effect just looks horrible sometimes. It might be that I am not doing this correctly so would love feedback or leads to online tutorials that really solve this issue. NOTE: I am preparing graphics strictly for web — so need to make gradients smooth in all displays including Apple Thunderbolt Displays, iPhone, iPad and even crappy monitors with low color gamuts. Thanks
Do I have to do something "special" to get the Color -> Color to alpha menu option to work in GIMP? I am trying to convert a background color on a GIF image to transparent by converting the background color to an alpha channel but the Color to Alpha menu option is not selectable. I've gone through the GIMP documentation and it looks pretty simple :-) I must be missing something rather obvious here!
As a graphic designer I have found it always very interesting that how designs made in past look very outdated, unfit, out of place, underwhelming and just wrong. Even though i know it's true designs/trends of today WILL become the old ones in near future. But why...what is it about us or designs that makes them like that to us. So far I have thought of several things maybe it's one of these or mixture.... Newer designs/trends are in fact an Improvement? or .. Novelty of newer designs hasn't just worn off? So in comparison they look better. Old designs are beautiful it's just they functionally hard for us as we are accustomed to other forms of retrieving message. But the thing that bothers me is that if most/some designs' newer version looks better just because it's better related to current era, achievements, and technical capabilities, then why does it appear that designs have improved in all last 10 iterations per decade. If my view is subjective to previous and newer design..then why do designs of era in which i don't live in or lived in appear progressively getting better. For that i have also happen to have some things in my mind... I am shortsighted in a way that most designs i get to see today are on digital media and digital media has been technologically challenged in its abilities so That means there is "Good Design" for the most part. There is Good Design and recently good UI, public representation, marketing is becoming a more of a priority...seriously most sites in past looked liked they were meant to be used by desperate people. They were just designed bad without consideration of aesthetics..I say that because some art looks just amazing even if it was made 2000 years ago..some things just do look beautiful. So do old art/designs/logo/typography look repulsive subjectively or they objectively are inferior?
I want to know what to call this type of picture: Is there a specific name, so that I could search these kind of images (that is images with a white human). Any help would be appreciated.
I'm going nuts here. I'll try to be straight to the point. I'm using Photoshop CC and have this dark background image for a poster with some text info. Sentences in white, three infos in purple, which I already chose from the web color palete. The thing is, I need to use this poster for the web, I've saved it, tried and checked and rechecked it all, and everytime the purple text is all blurry and pixelated when uploading on Facebook. The white text is ok. I didn't want to put all text in white and have it solved by that, it seems to me it will look too boring for this design. So, I'm looking forward to any tips or possible solutions I might not have tried to get this text unblurred and unpixelated! Here it goes: the file mode is set s-rgb, 72dpi, all like it should be I'm saving it as png-8 through the save for web option, have tried png-24, gif, with and without transparency, 256 colors, 128 colors, checked and unchecked include color profile, selective, perceptive... As Facebook compresses in jpg, I've saved the file as png and then as jpg to see if there was some sort of magic to happen, it just got worse of course. I've tried all anti-aliasing options and none I've tried small (120k), medium(700k) and large(2m) file sizes, they all have the blurry pixelated outcome on the purple text when uploaded to Facebook. Resized the images through the save for web dialog and the resize from the image menu When I try a lighter hue of purple, the blurry gets better, still don't find it good enough and didn't want light colors for this. I've tried many purpleish and magentaish for the record I've tried different font types, no change I've even put white rectangles to background the purple text to see if it would work better, and the answer is no, it doesn't Tracking, fractional widths on, off, all tried out Some examples of the text on fb: So, what am I missing? What else can I try? Is it just an irreparable FB issue? I'm not an Illustrator or any other graphic/image editing software user, but if there is any that could help me with that... I'm becoming a fan.
Using Photoshop I have converted a photograph into a sketch/line drawing, I achieved this in photoshop by: Making image greyscale Duplicating image then inverting it Applying a color(colour) dodge Applying a gaussian blur (level 8) Here is the effect, as you can see there are undesired effects on the cats face, where the fur is dark, I've discovered that because the area is not all pure black, and different variations of black. How can I fix the image before applying the effects to prevent such artefacts from accruing? original: New:
I created smiley for happy, sad and neutral event. Any suggestion for sarcasm? Here is the image for above three expression: Can someone suggest an icon for sarcasm?
I have a blog where I've been posting recipes and pictures for the last 6 months or so. I'd like to turn these into a cookbook. I was thinking about sticking everything in a .doc and printing it at home (it's only for a friend). Is there an easy way to do this. In a perfect world there'd be a magic app which had a choice of layouts and dedicated space on each page for the recipe name, cooking time, serving size and directions etc. I realise though that I might need to edit some parts in Photoshop. It would be a huge help if there were somewhere to get background images for the pages (I quite like quirky hand-drawn coloured backgrounds.
Say there are hundreds of unnamed layers in an Illustrator artboard. How do you just click one of those objects and reveal what layer it is on? And change to that layer?
I see that others have more options for the Layers Panel, such as the ability to change color. My layers panel Options for Selected contains only: Lock. Hide. How do I restore the correct functionality?
Please forgive the open-ended title. My actual question, I think, is a bit more specific and suited for this site but it is rather difficult to articulate my need in one simple sentence. Quick background-- I've recently had a minor shift in my career. I need to manage a website for a non-profit and since it will be rather graphical, I need to start learning how to extensively use image editing software. On a beginner-level, I've used PhotoShop in the past because that was what was available to me. I can use it but I'll be honest... I've always hated PhotoShop and reached for alternative editors when given the opportunity to use something else. To me, it's just not as intuitive as many other tools that I've used and, let's face it, it's expensive compared to many of the alternatives. My specific question is, is PhotoShop such a massive, de-facto industry standard that should I not realistically consider using another tool if I ever want to find competent volunteers (or future employees) that will need to manage our image assets? I know that their are a ton of PhotoShop alternative but, other than GIMP, most people have never heard of any of them. If I prefer to steer clear of PhotoShop for our needs, is this going to cause a problem in the future regarding finding competent workers that could take over my work, or are the other top-used image editing tools in enough use that I should be able to find competent workers that are familiar with these tools? I will choose to use PhotoShop if I have to in order to remain relevant. However, that will only be out of begrudged necessity. Any advisement would be appreciated. NOTE Please note that this IS NOT a direct request for PhotoShop alternatives. Instead, I just want to know that if I do go with something else for my personal work, will I be causing a bigger problem in the future when I need to hand over my work to someone else who is hopefully more capable than myself.
Why is there such a difference in the editing view & save preview views? I am using Adobe Illustrator CS6 for Mac OS X. Color Settings: North America General Purpose 2 Profile: sRGB Export Format: PNG-24
Please take a look at the image below. I am trying to find out if there's a "rule/pattern", even something that can be put down in math form, to the selection of a two-color gradient. The required outcome is something that looks like it's made "of the same color" but smooth. So, naturally going from RED to BLUE is distinctively a two color gradient. Suppose I pick the initial color -- how "far" on the RGB scale should the second color be in order for users to consider it "the same color", but in a different tone that creates the illusion of a smooth and interesting gradient background? If I map the two colors shown uses on a 2-axis color map, will the "vector" created between the two points representing the colors be measure of how I should be picking a second color? ...or perhaps is everything just "Eyeball it, change until the results are pleasing"? This is how the gradient looks on an iOS app. It's nice, and smooth.
Can (Adobe) Illustrator set default layer thumbnail size? Every new document, I need to click "Panel options..." to change layer's thumbnail size bigger.
I've placed an EPS file (File A) inside another EPS file (File B) and now need to completely break this link so that the artwork of File A becomes 100% editable part of File B. I've tried embedding it via Save As when saving FileB and that seems to keep the link to FileA active. I do not want File A to be linked in any way and need the artwork of File A to be on same layer as the artwork of File B so that I can edit all artwork together. I also do not want to have any links shown in the Illustrator links panel. Please let me know how/if this can be accomplished? Thank you!
My friend shoot a photo with a DIY White Backdrop, and I want to cut the tea box with the shadow. Is there any technique to dicut it? I'm hoping to get a result similar to these: I was also wondering what's the easiest way to color (color tone) photo like those.
I am slightly confused as to why the properties panel changes suddenly (as far as I know) when using shapes in Photoshop CC. This is the normal properties panel when working with shapes Then I sometimes get this On the first image, I can see that I could toggle between the two views (masks and live shape). However On this second image I only see the mask tab. Is there a way to get the normal tab back. Or somehow prevent this from happening. Thanks
Where can I find books / references / inspirations to learn the principles behind these graphic patterns? It's often seen in luxury or heritage style products, as well as the us dollar sign. What is the art or graphic design style called? I understand that this may be a mix of various styles, but is there an overlapping or overall name for this art style? Specific examples include Simon Frouw's work as they all seem to fall under this category: https://www.behance.net/simonfrouws http://cargocollective.com/simonfrouws/Spier-Sparkling-Wine More examples: Looking at them they just look elegant and old-school luxurious with all the intricate details that looks hand crafted. From looking at the various examples I gathered there seems to be elements or art deco geometric patterns, halftone engravings styles, monograms, and heritage crests I'm probably the most interested in the beautiful decorative geometric & illustrative or graphic design patterns as seen in the background. What's the principle behind these designs? What's it called and where can I learn to make them?
I am designing and doing the layout for our senior year newspaper. I want this to look as professional as I can get it. I feel like somthing is off with the design but I can not put my finger on what. In advance Thank you! Here is the newspaper: More examples in this link.
I'm working on a dieline for a box and I was wondering how I could make the fold lines. Do I just make the stroke dashed? I'm using rectangles to create my dieline. How do I select just one side of the rectangle to make my fold line? Every time I select one side the whole rectangle gets selected.
I will sometimes encounter a font centered within an element, however upon checking the alignment, I will see that it is aligned left. Clicking the "center text" button in photoshop shifts the text layer left. Is there anyway to assign the "center text" property without having the text layer shift?
hello I want to create a road line in illustrator like in this picture. The line must be the same or like this. I want to make it with holes and give the line an effect like an asphalt line.
I'm learning Illustrator CC and right now I'm trying out the various tools in the Pathfinder window, and how they allow me to create shapes. Something that confuses me, is that they seem to be somehow similar, if not redundant. Examples: Minus Front vs Minus Back Intersect vs Crop Unite vs Merge I feel like if I understood the difference between those tools, I'm a good deal closer to understanding Illustrator in general. Could someone explain to me: What is the difference between Intersect and Crop? Why is Minus Front in Shape Modes while Minus Back is in Pathfinders, if they are essentially the same tool? (Except that the who-cuts-who is reversed)
The black part of this image is the outline of the State of Georgia, and the orange part is a line that is meant to have the effect of orbiting the state. I would like to make this illusion, but I don't know how to get the tail end that is meant to look like it is going behind the black outline of the State. What do I do, because playing around in Illustrator CS6, I can only get the entire orbital behind the state, not just the two tail ends. Thanks
I've changed background color to blue, and put a circle on it. I also changed the color of the inner part of the circle to white. Now I want to depict seams on it... how can I draw the seams? I can accept that the seam is just the curved line - i.e. I don't need the dashed line or the "real" seam, which is a collection of small horizontal lines, since I don't like the idea of spending another 10 or even 20 hours just learning about how to draw a "real" seam. Here's the image that I intended to depict, though since I don't know how to depict it in a computational way, I just overlaid a circle on the original circle and erased the redundant part with an eraser by hand, and finally duplicated it and transposed the duplicated line. But since the hand-written curve is quite awful, I want to make the curve look more fluent. [Update]
So I can increase the size of the blob brush and eraser tool with [ and ], but the same shortcut doesn't seem to work consistently with the brush tool. It works with the three small "standard" brushes, as well as the calligraphic brushes. It doesn't show an increased stroke size, but the brush itself is affected. It doesn't work at all with Watercolor brushes. Is there a reason for this or is this simply a bug? Is there another way to quickly adjust brush sizes for all brushes other than changing the value in the command bar manually each time? In Photoshop it can be done by Alt-Right Click-Drag, but in Illustrator this seems to be something else entirely (creating a closed shape I think).
I have an Illustrator EPS file which has a number of shapes that are set to multiply and overlay modes. I am also using a number of masks. Is there a way to export this art in SVG format and keep all the visuals intact? As per this WIKI page I think it should be possible. I've tried saving my EPS as SVG several times with various options but am unable to get the alpha channels to render properly some of my vector shapes get rasterized as well.
I have been trying for hours to make this kind of shadow in Photoshop (the red one). Can somebody help me? Notice that there is a gap between the font and the shadow.
How do I remove the shadow in this photo? I tried fuzzy select on my actual image, the object has grey elements that make it difficult to distinguish properly. I can do by parts, but the real background also is grained due to the photo quality, and I don't know what operation to use to impose similar grain on the removed region.
I have the following design with gradient : The gradient is 348px long, linear, starts with #F7F7F7 and ends with white #FFFFFF. I need to know what gradient color should I put as a starting point if I want my gradient to be not 348px, but 270px (shown by red line) with keeping to the original design. Is that possible?
I need to resize the Illustrator's swatch palette icons which are too small on my Mac. How can I do that? Once I saw a PC with huge icons and I realized that I could do the same on my Mac.
Is there anyway to re adjust the path? I tried & tried but completely failed
I am working on a web application that sends print data to a newspaper system - we do not actually load and store font information we just create an approximation of the article to be printed. I am having a terrible time matching lineage for aGarmond 10 pt. Does anyone know is there anywhere I can find relative font widths for AGaramond (the proportion of the letters to each other) ? Like 'M'=1, and 'l' is .75? Thanks
I'm trying to mock up some ads for the London underground, and I'm having trouble warping the image to the interior of the tube shape. There are various guides to warping labels to cylinder exteriors etc but I cant find anything regarding warping images to the interior shape. I want to add an ad over where the current ones are, but I'm having trouble getting the perspective to look right. The image I intend to use for the mockups is this one: And here's where I'm at so far: I think I've got the skew right, I just need it to look "curved" so it looks like it's pasted to the wall. The idea is that it will be kind of experiential so the entire wall and roof of the tube will be covered.
I'm trying to find a way to distort artwork to emulate those crazy chalk art pieces you see all the time, like this: I know how it's done: ...but I'm wondering if there is an Illustrator or Photoshop plugin available to apply the distortion for me. Currently, I do the distortions manually with Mesh Envelope, but it's tedious. There has to be an easier way. Any ideas? EDIT: Here is one of the recent real life projects I did that used this sort of technique, but calculated manually, stair by stair: Here is the desired view point: And here is an off angle view point:
Let's say I have created a layer on a black-and-white image with a layer mask to colorize some parts (for example skin). I am able to change this with Colorize and change to any color. But how do I use another image of color of skin (as reference)? Is there a way to select a portion of skin on the color image and apply it to my layer with a mask that I painted so that my masked layer looks just like the skin color of the color image (the reference image)? I am trying to follow this tutorial, but instead of colorize I want to select a colored image (or portion of colored image) as a color reference. That way it's more realistic. Or does there exist a GIMP plug-in that will allow me to change dark grey values to take on darker tones of a selected area of colored image and brighter grey values to take on tones brighter tones of a selected area of a colored image? I wanted to try colorizing a black-and-white photo after seeing this post.
When I try to open an svg file with Illustrator, Illustrator defaults to whatever artboard size was last used when a file was open. As such, the svg, if not the same size as the previous artboard, is then placed and auto-resized into that artboard. Is there a workaround for this that does not involve opening a fake document with the artboard size of the svg, then closing that doc and File > Open the actual svg? Note: I do not want to save the svg from Illustrator with the "preserve Illustrator editing capabilities" in the save as svg dialog. You can test this with any svg, but here's a super simple one that is 320 x 240: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!-- Generator: Adobe Illustrator 17.1.0, SVG Export Plug-In . SVG Version: 6.00 Build 0) --> <!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd"> <svg version="1.1" id="Layer_1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" x="0px" y="0px" viewBox="0 0 320 240" enable-background="new 0 0 320 240" xml:space="preserve"> <rect width="320" height="240"/> <text transform="matrix(1 0 0 1 98.6523 133)" fill="#FFFFFF" font-family="'ArialMT'" font-size="48">Why?</text> </svg>
It seems like Gimp is not rotating correctly. I have two duplicate layers of this GIF: It looks like this: I click the rotate tools, click one of the layers, and choose 90 degrees. It looks like this: Then I click the rotate button to apply the rotation, and I see this: The rotation is off. Does anyone know what is happening here?
I have a file with about 500 layers, and I need to replace a color in all of them. I looked through different solutions here and elsewhere, and they all suggested using an adjustment layer or something similar. This doesn't help much - the layers are used for animation so it would break everything. The best I could come up with is export layers to files, run a batch on those files, and load them back in. However, 15 minutes later it only managed me to export 3 frames out of 500. Is this some kind of a joke? The whole gif is 300kb and imagemagick managed to export it in a fraction of a second, though I'm not happy with what it did to transparency. Update: ffmpeg did the exporting just fine, now I'm trying to get photoshop to replace color. I select a gray color #e1e1e1, click on the result, and type in the required color #f2f6f8. It suggests hue -160, sat +30, lightness +8, which does pretty much nothing at all. How is it possible that when I specify the result color I need, it fails to figure out how to do the replacement? I ended up using a short piece of code to do the color conversion (because I had a png library at hand) and imagemagick to convert it back to gif. So much for the almighty photoshop, failed me at all 3 steps.
I'm trying to save two different versions of a certain SVG using Illustrator. The sole difference between the two versions is that a certain text element's tracking attribute was set. It seems though that Illustrator is completely ignoring the new attribute (the two resulting SVG files are almost the same - there are some negligible position differences) which in effect causes the resulting SVG to display incorrectly. The relevant text element is saved as a single element in which case I assume the tracking (letter-spacing in SVG) is most relevant (as opposed to outputting the text by wrapping each character in a in which case the tspan's position could be used to implement the tracking implicitly). Am I missing something in regards to saving as SVG from Illustrator? Any pointers would be much appreciated. Thanks
So basically, I want to edit my image (which was designed by a close friend of mine) to change my glasses from white color, to black instead. I've tried editing the hue/saturation but failed to achieve the effect. I want to learn how to do it in Photoshop. Your kind advice would be greatly appreciated :) Still relatively new to the program and learning. Much thanks!
I am curious as to why when I scale things the general shape changes. The flag in the middle is what I originally started with, and either side is the distorted result of rescaling it. I have read previous answers and tried: unchecking align to pixel grid upon start-up of new document and then with the flag shape selected; checking 'scale strokes and effects'. Any ideas? Here is another example of where this has happened, both lines and rectangle shapes have changed (harder to see): And here is what is checked/unchecked: I am completely lost... been searching for an answer but nothing. Thank you!
I would like to animate a set of text, like this http://www.doctorhugo.org/e-poetry/shewalks.gif as in the the gif i create should consist of text I choose. Are there any tools for that? How would I approach it in HTML5/canvas?
I have a timer running on a video overlay in a mobile application. The font used throughout the app is GothamNarrow-Book. While it looks nice, it is distracting to see the running timer constantly changing its width. Here is a sample of what the font looks like: I'm open to all suggestions.
Assume I have an icon on a pure white background in a PNG image. The icon is a solid color, with edges anti-aliased, so they are blended with white. I need to delete the white background so that the non-content is transparent. How can I get the anti-aliased edges to blend from the fill color to transparent, instead of white? There is a similar question on the site, but this is actually a different case: dealing with solid colors, and anti-aliasing of just the edges, not reblending entire portions of the image. I don't think the answer from the other question applies. I can't reasonably apply a gradient to just the one-pixel edge of an icon. There aren't enough pixels. Also, this method doesn't scale well when the icon edges are irregular (like a Twitter bird). Perhaps the question is whether it's possible to de-antialias an icon, knowing the foreground and background colors exactly, and to re-antialias it on a transparent background.
In an imaging app I'm working on, I want to enable the user to apply a blur filter to the image. Bit creating an icon for that filter isn't easy. Should I Draw a white circle and just apply a blur to that and take that image as icon? I'm not too happy with making a modern UI icon that hasn't straight lines and curves, but blurry outsides Similar to 1., but make one half of the circle without blur and separate them with a line (similar to an average sign Make a circle / image with an very curved, unclear outline, but all of the image in the same color (white) so I don't have to apply a blur to the image itself which seems like violating the modern UI design princibles Any help (or reference to some documentation) is appreciated.
When I watch time lapses of Photoshop (and the like) artwork, I always ask myself why they paint a huge area over the picture over and over again (like layers). As reference watch the first seconds in this video. The artist paints a large chunk of black over the picture (the fine black drawing itself is always on top). Is this to provide more contrast? Is this like a backup? Painting a big area implies that the layers beyond are finished? Later the black is overpainted again. Since I am not a painter/drawer/designer etc, I have no clue what this is supposed to do/help with. I used paint to make some signatures in discussion boards but those where only patterns and filter.
I'm trying to use a Gaussian blur on an image, but I don't want it to effect the edges of the image. How can I do this? I'm using Adobe Fireworks. Here's the image I am using: And here's what I did: See how the Gaussian blur effects the edges? I don't want that. I'm trying to create an effect like this:
I have this letterhead title in Hebrew, English, and Arabic, in which I set the English to Small Caps (that is, the first letter is a big capital, the rest are small). Now, in Hebrew, the letters are generally squarish, so they're kind of like small caps already (although there's no equivalent of the large cap). In Arabic, however, many/most letters are at half-height (e.g. و and د), while other rise well above the x-height, e.g. ال which denotes a definite article. But ال is not like a big cap at all, and the rest of my text looks so low(ly) compared to the English small caps. What do I do? Notes: Here is an example of Arabic in boxed letter-forms. It's not what I would be looking for, but does illustrate how Arabic type is amenable to many (acceptable) kinds of stretching, shaping and manipulation. Suggestions such as "Do something entirely different than small caps" are not entirely irrelevant, but I would rather stick to my original whim. I can't just have the script in every language be set in a different style altogether, consistent only with the custom for titles in that language.
We are trying to create a web page with a full-size background. The following pages are our inspiration: http://www.august.com.au/ http://www.levehytter.no/ http://danielfiller.com/ We have created a page with some striking images of our own, but they always seem flat, lifeless and don't give the copy any chance to stand-out. There seems to be some common qualities of the images that work that we can't put our fingers on. What are the qualities of images, or techniques used on those images, that would allow them to be used more effectively as a full-screen web page background?
Are these illustrations done manually by hand or in Illustrator? Is there a easier way to reproduce these kind of illustrations? More examples here.
I'm an aspiring logo designer so I'm doing some research. Apple's logo, according to all the "evolution of the Apple logo" photos, shows their current logo as being a 3d type Grey gradient logo. So that's their official one, but where do they actually use that at? In everything I see from their website to ads they are either using solid grey or monochrome. I heard that its OK to use gradients in logos now as long as they are relatively simple. Looking at the Skype design document it says use the gradient logo for screen use and the solid color logo for print use. Is this standard practice for logos with gradients?
I'm building a newsletter in InDesign and have some company photos of people's faces. What file type should I use to place them in my InDesign file? JPEG TIFF EPS PSD
I'm created an InDesign file using CS5. Where do I find the option to have my hyperlinks open in a new browser window? When I create the PDF from InDesign and post the PDF on my web site the links work, but open in the same browser window.
We run a restaurant and we package our product in 3x2x8 2mil poly bags. For 4 years we've printed labels and stuck them on the bags, but I'd like to see if there's a way to print the information straight onto the bags. Are there companies that do this? We order the bags from Uline, so if they wanted to get the bags straight from them, and resell it to us with the printing done on them, that would be fine.
In GIMP, after adding a layer mask, and editing, is there a way (or even a plugin) to let you view the layer mask right on the canvas? I know that you can see a miniature copy of the layer mask in the Layer Dialog on the side (right next to the miniature copy of the layer), but I want to know if you can just view it? (I suppose alternatively, I could do a greyscale layer and copy that layer onto the mask, but I was more interested in if there was an easy one-click method to make this happen.)
What font is used in this logo? I'd love to have this or a similar one.
(The next level from Creating an .ico file with multiple sizes - web application) How can I combine multiple pngs of different sizes into a single ico? I want the 256x256 and 128x128 versions to look the same, but 32x32 and 64x64 to be from a different file. How can I do this on a mac?
The edges in the above image are very pixelized and I need to smoothen them out. Can anyone guide me in the right direction?
when I was at design college 2013 we were told (for educational purposes) that we could use images from the net (only photographs) to incorporate into designs for posters, collages, magazine covers, etc, and that we obviously could not make any money from these designs, but that we could use them in our portfolio. Is this true or false? I now have an FB page and, as a recent graduate, want to put up some of these designs on my page. But is that copyright, or is it permissible as an example for work I've done, so long as no money is being made from it? Do I need to state that photography wasn't original? (I'm not even sure now where I got them from!) I usually put a copyright label on my posted works to cover myself, but if the above described is permissible, then do I need to not use that copyright label as its not completely original? (because I have used some photographs from the net which have then been rearranged/edited/etc etc and incorporated into a design). Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks!
What is the default size of printable PDF of photography magazine in In Design? I like to make photography magazine for online as well as print. I want to know is there any standard size photography magazine in In Design.
I need to design a vinyl for Seat Ibiza Coupe (2009). I have already found this site: the-blueprints.com but I think it is too expensive for a vector. Is there any site that has free or unexpensive vectors or blueprints of cars? I am actually looking for something like this:
I want to add that white lines on the project, but don't want that line to be visible on the printed element. How can I do that? Working in CMYK in Adobe CS6.
How do you do this in Photoshop? I am using Photoshop cc and Illustrator and I am in the process of learning. Can anyone teach me how to do that text effect shown in the picture? thanks!
My website is going to include a lot of graphics, drawn by myself. The display of the illustrations will be similar to that of theoatmeal.com (some illustration reuse will be present, but not as much as in most comics and the drawings will not be in boxes but simply appropriately placed on the page). I'm having a hard time deciding between the resizability of vector vs. the intricacies and ease of Sketchbook drawings. The way I see it, at the end of the day, my final graphic is going to lose quality when it's resized in a browser no matter what. However, this may make development a little bit harder. For one, I lose the ability to re-use a lot of graphics and make minor changes to them. But I already have my main canvas laid out in illustrator, so I know in relation to that, the size that my drawings should be - this should result in little need to resize. Ideally, if I could draw the skeleton of my illustrations in vector, then add detail(like shading) in Sketchbook, that is what I would most prefer. Does anyone know any limitations to this? For those with experience, what do you do/suggest?
I wanted to create a set of layer comps but ran into a problem when trying to toggle the visibility of layers within a smart object. Let's say I have a document with smart object. I want 1/5 layers visible for each of my 5 layer comps (each layer having its own comp). Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a way I can get both the original document and smart object to work together in terms of displaying the desired smart object layers. One possible reason is that they work independently from each other (psd & psb). Its almost like they are two separate (yet connected) documents but with two different layer comp panels. Is there a workaround for this?
While in the stages of a bid, quote, or proposal I was curious how should a designer communicate "price is negotiable" in a professional manner instead of stating the simple fact. I know it's sometimes good to be blunt but I feel it is unprofessional and a possible sign of "oh he will take low pay" or "he needs work".
How can I erase the text that is not generated in Pixelmator? In the following image, what I like to do is erase the black status bar text (carrier, Wi-Fi symbol, time, and battery icon) on the top of the screen. However, I cannot use the eraser tool because it's basically impossible to use the exactly same color as the navigation bar on the screen, and if it's not the exact same color, the resultant image is quite ugly on which everyone can easily recognize there were some texts there before being erased. So is it feasible to erase the text as if it's not there in the first place?

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