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I'm trying to find a font similar to Casablanca Book Condensed which you can test drive. What I'm trying to find to match the 'S': Ultimately I'm looking for something free but the cheaper the better. I've tried to look through Google Fonts but didn't find anything that matched what I was looking for. Any suggestions would be helpful!
I am a student of graphics, and was looking for some inspirational logos and came across these, they look beautiful and I tried to make one myself but failed. How can anyone make such perfect logos? with exact same width and height exact distance. What are these logos called? Is there any tutorial online? Can someone please help me in learning how to make these types of logos? Do i need some kind of illustrator script or action for this?
Would this be considered plagiarism? I have made the LiveBulb logo 3 days ago, I made it all from scratch. Starting at sketches and completely refined it using grids in Illustrator. Luka Balic immediately mailed me when he saw my logo on Dribbble, I was so polite to put it off of my account for the time being, but I would like to get some advice on whether I can use it or not, considering me and my colleagues really like the shape of the letters and angle we are using it on. Thanks a lot for your advice!
First of all, is it a good idea to ask a potential client for a ballpark budget they are thinking to work with? I just don’t want to meet with somebody who has a very low budget, and who could be surprised during our first meeting that I’m not the cheapest guy in town. So what do you think my first step should be when a client sends me an e-mail, wanting to discuss a project? The client has no idea what I charge, beside the fact that the client likes the work I do.
I love SE Community, and I love badges, it has something similar with Xbox achievements. I used to play a game called Gears of War 3, it has a cool system called Ribbons. Basically you played this game and you got ribbons for your performance at every single battle. Here are some examples. So I was thinking, if we could have a similar system in SE Community, ribbons based on your everyday activities. I am a new guy into design world, and here are my ribbons design. I am not here to ask whether this proposal of ribbons is OK or not, this question has been discussed at Meta Stackoverflow. I want to know does this kind of graphic design (whether Gears of War 3 style or my terrible design ) fit with the whole SE Community?
I have a rectangular shape and I added an "extension area" to it with several line segments and closed it back to the rectangle. Specifically, I clicked on an anchor point off a corner of the rectangle drew several line segments off this point and connecting each by the anchor point of each segment. I drew and closed off this shape by drawing the line segment back to the rectangle's anchor point. How do I fill in this new area with a color? In the example below I'd like to fill in the "polygon shape" that's extended off of the rectangle with some non-white color. When I select the rectangle and polygon, I get a question mark: "?" in the fill area.
I want to cut an object using second object how can I acheive it? In the above image you can see 2 objects one is circle having 2px stroke and no fill, second is rectangle having white fill but no stroke. I want to cut circle based on rectangle to make it something like this Using your solutions I am getting object like this one
I'm currently designing a poster, and when I view the design in Illustrator my Ben-Day dotted images are heavily distorted in their color and spatial appearance. I really like this. Is there a way I could (possibly in Photoshop) recreate these distortions so they end up in my exported pdf? This is how the poster looks when exported to png: Here's a screen-shot from Illustrator: Screen-Shot http://timneutel.com/content/2.2013-2014/85.departementsdag-poster/1.departementsdag-poster.png
When I open a PNG in Illustrator CC and save it as SVG, once I open the SVG on the browsers I found out that the Photo has been shrinked. Can you tell me the reason and if there is a solution for that or not ? Thanks in advance, Waleed
I have Photoshop CS6 and in the timeline panel's menu there's an option called optimize animation and it has two options: Bounding Box Redundant Pixel Removal I searched in the internet and Photoshop help but I didn't understand anything about them :\| I'm not English so I'm sorry if I have any mistakes
I am trying to save out 24 rasterized layers to icon format. Is there a script to do this? I have tried greenfish but it does not let me set a custom size 100x100 I have also tried batching as png to irfanview then using irfan view to convert png to ico but the transparency does not save out clearly. Anyone have a workflow on how to get this working? thanks
I have used a drawing tablet before in order to draw stuff onto Photoshop, but I did find it quite awkward and strange looking at my monitor, while paying no attention to the tablet itself. I mean, when drawing on a piece of paper, most would focus on the paper and their hand, rather than looking elsewhere. So my question itself is... How does the Surface Tablet rack up against a drawing tablet monitor (the expensive kind with a screen that you directly draw on top of). As far as my research is concerned, a drawing tablet with a built in monitor will cost me easily over £1000, where as a Surface Pro 2 about £800 or less! The later of which with the added functionality of being able to run all kinds of software. Over all though, what I'm purely interested in is how well can the Microsoft Surface be used as a drawing tablet, especially compared to a drawing tablet monitor.
Most of my work I perform on MacBookPro, but also I have a retina-iPad device which I never use for any type of graphic design, thus I am looking for solution to the underuse of this costly device. My question is: What actual design related tasks do you perform on iPads? I am interested in actual usage and not in theoretical ("you can use it for xyz").
Has anyone seen a study on how users react to logos that contain alive things like birds vs just geometric shapes or really anything else? I assume everyone will grow to love a mascot more then just a circle, but I need evidence.
I've been trying to wireframe my designs for apps, but keep getting frustrated with the limited ability and poor usability of the software I've used (Balsamiq, Pencil, Prototyper). Do you have any suggestions for free software that is up to date with buttons/elements for Android and iOS?
I am trying to create scala logo in HTML however could not find the font for the logo. Can someone help me with it.
I have a linear sequence of many same-sized rectangles. e.g. [----] (space) [-------] (space) [--] (space) [---] (space) [----------] I need all of the edges to be touching. e.g. [----][-------][--][---][----------] Of course, I can manually select sequential pairs of rectangles and use Align & Distributes option align left edges of objects to right edge of anchor. But this is very tedious - I have to do it for every sequential pair. Is there any way to sequentially align the edges in bulk?
Because of the recent Web accessibility Law in my region, I need to ensure I'm designing with an appropriate contrast ratio. WCAG says the value of this ratio is 4.5:1 http://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/visual-audio-contrast-contrast.html How do I figure this out in in Photoshop and Illustrator?
I am having problems vectoring art work for floor tiles. I vector the image in Photoshop then I save it as a Photoshop file and move it over to Illustrator. For these vector images the need to be able to be stretched or shrunk but still keep a straight line. not pixalated. What am I doing wrong? This is one of the images I have vectored in photoshop. Should I with to using AI? When I have finished doing the image in Ai will it be able to be resized to any size and still keep a good strait line without pixelating?
I need a way to get at the dimensions of a Photoshop layer with their layer effects. All methods I can find (such as command/control-clicking the layer thumbnail) only select the base layer and never include their effects. Is there a way to select/marquee the Photoshop layer plus its effects (without manually adjusting the selection using Expand) or to at least get the size of the layer plus its effects?
Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator have options to preview what artwork will look like to people with red/green colour blindness (protanopia and duteranopia). How reliable are these previews? For example, I produced the images below using Photoshop's colour blindness simulation. The red and green tiles are still somewhat distinguishable. Can I rely on people with protanopia or duteranopia being able to distinguish those colours? I'd also like to know how much these conditions vary by person. Are these conditions that have a range of severities, where some people with protanopia are better able to distinguish red and green than others? Or are they more constant, where two people with protanopia would perceive colours the same way? Full colour Duteranopia Protanopia
I have a file that was originally created in CorelDrawX5 as both a dwg and pdf. I have opened both in Illustrator CS6 and they work fine. I then saved it as an eps and ai for my supplier to work from, they have Illustrator 10 so I made sure it was compatible to work with ver 10. However when my supplier opens it all the letters and outlines are split up and spread out. Attached is how it is opening and then how it should look. Does anyone know what the issue could be?
I am trying to do a new website and there are 3 key points to it (Easy, fast, secured). I have already been thinking of using icons for those 3 words but I am not so sure yet. The site that I am doing is for a car loan company and I am open to any suggestions you guys might come up with. I still like the icons idea that I've had in mind and would love to know what icons would best represent those 3 words. I am open to any suggestions :) Here are my sketches/ideas: For fast, I was thinking of a car in motion so I made one (it's not perfect cause it's not done yet: And for easy, I was thinking of a thumbs up icon. Maybe something like this: And for secured, I was thinking of a lock. Something like this:
Is there a way to make an animation of an entire Illustrator project from start to finish? I don't want to screen capture movie (as if it were a tutorial), nor do I want "my current view" of the progress (e.g. no zooming in and out). Rather, the animation should be of the whole artboard as the art gets created, step-by-step. (I've seen this done for Proceate here)
I have created a few actions to add border and guide marks on images. Depending on the border required, a different action button is used. Part of these actions are canvas size changes, image flips, etc. Every time an action gets called, each of these steps (flips, canvas size changes) gets animated on screen. Is it possible to disable these animations and apply all the steps without visual progress from one step to the next? I hope my description above doesn't sound convoluted
In Adobe Illustrator CS5, is there a way to snap the brush to the guidelines? This is the effect I'm aiming to create: I have created my grid and now I want my brush to align or snap to the guidelines, it is possible? Now this is want I really want to do: This the effect I want to create using the pressure of my pen tablet, with the help of the guidelines.
I've been sent a ui design which includes a header menu, wrapped in rounded corners, whereas the following content element is wrapped in square corners. Also every other primary content wrapper for widgets, sidebars etc are all squared corners. I've always thought this was a huge design no-no, but the designers are quite headstrong and believe it's perfectly acceptable and even advantageous in this situation. (Unfortunately due to some office politics I'm not in a position where I can just tell them to change it). I'm sure I recall seeing something about this in design theory at university, ahem "several" years ago, but can't find any examples. Am I right to dislike this design from an objective, basic design theory point of view, or is it really not that big of a deal and should be left to a designer's judgement call? (Design has been simplified as the full design is commercial in confidence). Rounded corners against square corners: Close up:
I have kuler installed, was using it just fine, then I just change from the move tool to the crop tool and back again. Now kuler window is just blank. How can I activate it? Thanks
I created an invitation card of double the A4 size with 72 dpi in photoshop. I intend to share it via phone. However when seen in actual size, it gets blurred. I tried same with 300dpi also. What should be properties of image so that it should not get blurred irrespective of the screen size, when seen at the original size of the image.
When I'm working in CorelDraw and my paper size is A4 (it's shows in the left upper corner) I keep the size of my poster into the limits of my borders/paper. Meanwhile, I have nothing changed in the settings and I go to export my .cdr file : it is not centered in the paper as you can see ... when im going to print the above RGB file(poster) it is printed all but leaves a big gap at the right of the page of my paper, and at the left side of my paper has no border at all I do not understand what I am doing wrong. How can I correct the issue?
Is anyone aware of any resources for Icon design etymology, or the history of icon design? I'm talking about icons like Wi-Fi/Ethernet/Bluetooth status indicators, add, save, and similar simple images explaining actions or status. Like you might find in the Glyphicon set, for example. We're working on a project and trying to come up with useful or novel illustrations for some non-standard actions, and in some cases there aren't any decent examples to use as inspiration. The idea came up that if there's a good anthology or even articles on icon history, it would be useful as a reference for the design process. As an example, the Wikipedia page for Bluetooth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth) explains the history and design of that icon well and clearly.
I have been trying to create a logo design, and I've come across an issue that seems very simple but has so far been very puzzling. Basically the logo that I am designing has intersecting squares; where every second square is 100% opaque and the rest are 65% opaque. My issue is that I want the borders of each square to intersect the square after it in such way that the intersection becomes 100% transparent. Sorry if that sounds confusing, I couldn't find a better way to describe it. The screenshot should give a better idea of what I am trying to do. This screenshot shows what I ultimately want to achieve, however for that screenshot I 'faked' the intersection transparency by having 2 objects for each square; 1 object with only stroke without fill and another with only the fill and no stroke. That solution works if I have a pre-set background color but it would not work for a logo as it needs to have a transparent background. This second screenshot shows what it looks like with a transparent background How could I solve this? Thanks in advance
I'm trying to fit a texture inside this shape but the main thing is that I want it to continue on both sides of A and B from the bottom center, I dont want the texture to continue under the black parts of A and B then continue on the other side. In other words I want the texture to automatically fit the shape in a continous way. Is there any way to do this? I've tryed to find a way to do it and searched google but I couldnt find anything. Hope someone can help Many Thanks!!
I'm trying to smooth out the edges of a low res jpeg download after I take it in to live trace and use the b&w preset. Is there a better way than using the anchor point tool?
I have a weird thing happening with this font. It's Avenir. I've used it in the past with no issues, but this one seems to pop up once in awhile. The issue if not obvious is that some letters appear larger than the others. The 'C" and the 'G' for example. Any ideas? I'm using a Macbook Pro
I have an image of 90x122 pixels i want to resize it to make it 512x512 pixels but the image loses it quality Is there any way of doing this without losing the quality?.
I have a book ready for printing. But, of course, it was done in RGB. In fact, I stretched the RGB gamut beyond its normal range in order to make it more painterly etc. When I saw it converted to CMYK, I almost passed out. All the great colors I had achieved in RGB had been dulled and "grayed". It was a great disappointment even after infinite tweaking of the CMYK colors in a futile attempt to get them back to match the original RGB colors. Worst of all was the color blue. No matter what I did in CMYK to restore this very important color, all I got was a gray-blue. Is it possible in this remarkable age of technology that there is no printing press that can print a book directly from RGB?
I have a two-spot job that uses a Pantone Blue C and a Pantone Black C. I need to create various tints of the black spot, but I don't really like using Pantone blacks for tints. From a production standpoint, would it matter if I substituted Black C for a CMYK 100% K value (process black)?
I've always been trying to look for the name of a specific art style that consists of many lines traversing in a grid, like in a taxicab geometry. An example would be this picture, an image from a flash game called "Traitor": It is a distinct art style which I've seen it popped up in different places, so I'm sure there's a name to it. I've tried to find it by keywords like "fractal art", but no luck.
Can someone tell me why i cannot add a stroke to the selected path? I have opened the file multiple times/copied and pasted the paths and tried to change the color and weight of the stroke. I believe this has to do with the circle being filled in. in the layer selection. illustrator says its adding a stroke but nothing shows up.
Does anyone know what this font is? I have already tried using whatthefont Var1. Originally posted by topic starter. Var2. The are differences between the images, however they may be result of scaling or other image manipulations.
Some layer effects and styles in Photoshop have pixel settings. The problem appears when you want to scale your design. For example, in Bevel and Emboss you are able to set the Size and Soften. The former is limited to 250px and the latter to 16px. To scale and preserve my design I need to set values greater than the Photoshop limits. Is it possible to do that? Any workaround? Moving to Illustrator is not a solution, since some Photoshop effects that I'm using are not present in Illustrator.
Sometimes, when I'm drawing a vector path with the pen tool, I need to drag the line further than I have screen space, and this makes the screen scroll down, which makes me lose focus on what I'm looking at. Is there a keyboard shortcut or some way to prevent the screen from automatically scrolling downward (or whatever direction) and just allow me to drag it as far as I want?
I was going to try to do the line art of one of my drawings on adobe illustrator, but when i open the file the brushes are not there. There's only the basic brush and i can't reduce its size. I've tried to open the image in various formats, but it didn't work. How can i solve this?
I have 550+ fonts installed in my Windows 7, which is annoying, because they all are appear in Adobe Illustrator font's menue. Its really difficult to find appropriate fonts when it needed, also i am scared to add new fonts. Is there any safe way to delete redundant fonts and group new fonts (may be as folders)? Thank you.
Alright I am thinking of designing this site for xyz need or customers. Now when i am thinking...ideas that pop up in my mind are about lot of things, which are not necessarily related to graphic design immediately. Ideas cover from new features, animations, inquiries/theories, user interaction, website layout...to everything else. Basically ideas are born from new insights that i gain as i go deep into the goal. I could just write them, but some are just too simple to be written down. But i know i will rediscover them like 4 times more because i'll also forget them. Whereas others require more thinking but if i think about them i'll definitely lose the mood that i am in for doing what i am doing now. And it may very well all amount to procrastination. So it got me wondering is there any tool, strategy, workflow, tips, or anything else that helps in profiting from these ideas. Tools like that let me store ideas by features double click them to see extra details. Workflow...like stop every now and then review what you have done..write down things that you think you ought to further research or think about. Also dot down new features that seem very helpful and natural by user's point of view. or keep notebook/(notepad open) near by to write down whatever is in your mind then later when done go over them.. or one other way would be store ideas but don't implement them but think of them features that you would like to have implemented in next version. I guess my goal would be to not waste brain cycles, minimize amount of revisions, and mainly not lose brain gems.
I have been doing web design for a couple of years now. I am trying to design it on paper but am not the best at it. Could you please give me some advise on how to blueprint it? How can I create wireframe-like mockups of a website on paper with a pencil or pen?
Once I have drawn the shape, per below, how do I simply lengthen the line? If I try via Transform Controls, it will also increase the width of the line (i.e. It transforms the whole shape as I drag diagonally upwards). How do I just make the line longer? Thanks.
I am using a font (custom made)for a title- which never posed any problem in other programs (illustrator, powerpoint, etc) - and it is acting very odly. See for yourself: It gives me this huge space above it. And it doesn't do that when I change the font... I am very confused :-s
i had tried to find this font in many web pages but couldn't find the exact font.So please can somebody help me to find this font.
I'm an amateur graphic designer. I've been doing work for local companies and initiatives for just over a year now. I recently got a job designing for a pretty big client (by my standards). They wanted me to sign over ALL of my rights. I asked for portfolio rights (only the right to display it in my portfolio as a work that I contributed to). The representative said that I could put it in my portfolio, but I asked that they put it in the contract. It's been two weeks and I haven't even received a reply denying my request. Was my request unfair? Should I just send in a signed version of their contract, apologize for an unreasonable request and cut my losses?
I'm getting an error when I view my illustrator doc. error on line 33308 at column 20: Namespace prefix inkscape for connector-curvature on path is not defined My illustrator document is pretty basic except it uses a custom font. I don't know how to begin to solve this error. Any troubleshooting tips/ideas?
Hello! I'm looking for the name this font! Any ideas?
I recently bought a Wacom tablet for someone I know as she is interested in getting into the digital design industry. She's mainly just been doodling some drawings in Photoshop with it at the moment, but she wants to start adding colour to the drawings. However, she told me that due to the brush strokes the lines are not completely connected (for example if she draws a circle as a face, there are gaps in some places). What method do people use to get around this, and to start adding colour? Thanks!
I've been tasked with designing a viral campaign with limited budget. I've not worked on such things before, so I don't really have any idea on how to handle this task. What exactly makes a campaign go viral? Is it possible to make something cheap and be sure that it goes viral? How would a designer judge how "viral" their work is? Here's the background to my specific case. I'm working in an internet agency. Actually as a webdesigner, but I bet most of you experience the same problems as I do: we frequently get "abused" to do things we're not really supposed to do. I don't have a huge problem with that, but I think I kind of like don't know how to handle this task I got one or two weeks ago: We're desperately searching coders who're able to code PHP, MySQL and so on and it turns out to be quite difficult to find someone at the moment. We've already spent a lot of time and money on finding some new team members but it turns out, it ain't really easy to find people over platforms like monster.com. To give you some more information: my company is based in Munich, Germany. My task is it to create a campaign (no matter if online or offline) which should go viral within a short time. Still they don't want to spend a huge amount of money which makes it quite hard for me to find an idea that actually goes viral, is "cheap" and attracts the targeted group. I really want to help the company, so that we find some new coders, but I really don't have any idea on how to handle this task.
Not sure exactly how to describe this, but here goes... I have some key/value pairs that I want to display separated by a colon: Name : Some Person Description : A description that can span multiple lines Department : D1 The values will be imported from XML at some point. The description value can be short, but also long enough to break into multiple lines. Important is that I don't know how long the description will be up front. How can I make the description to align with the colons? At this moment this is what I get: Name : Some Person Description : A description that can span multiple lines Department : D1 I'm using Adobe InDesign CS6.
I've been messing around with Pencil2D to create simple, keyframe animations, and although it works nicely, I can see how if you have an animation which is a combination of lots of independent animations (as I'm sure most animations are!) then you'd have difficulty creating that in software as simple as Pencil2D. I don't know how professional animators handle this, but I would have thought that it would make sense to create each of the independent animations separately, and then be able to import them in to the main animation and position each one freely and set their own frame rates. I was wondering what software is available (preferably free, but trialware would be OK) that would allow you to combine several independent animations, whilst still in their original, vector format, onto a single canvas that then forms the final animation (which will be a standard video that can be uploaded to online video services)? I don't think that a standard video compositor would work because I want to be able to zoom in and out of my animations while retaining fidelity, but I'm happy to be proven wrong! I'm working in Windows, but have access to Linux if needs be. Thanks,
Can you tell me which font is used for the logo of this web site? How can I create my logo using the same font and same pattern? What 's the font used for the capital text?
I am looking for help with creating spherical map similar to provided in picture: the 6 parts spherical map image setup (bent): I want to put together a promotional balloon vinyl,and I want to print on advertising material and thus put together a balloon, when put together to be whole advertisement. My problem is, write logo like this in the figure that, when cut dlove and merge into the sphere of painting merge and be whole
I make a dotted map just like the one on the image below. I am using Illustrator and Photoshop. How can I select and re-color some of the dots on this image?
I'm teaching my child, who is 5, how to write and I wondered if it would be a bad idea to teach the foundations of typography and if any skills or techniques exist for children that can help show them how to progress in typography and writing skills? So far I have come up with: The anatomy but I'm having to make it into a game because I don't want to bore her: The different types of font styles.
One of my pages has a single image taking up some space on the page. The rest of the space (the space not occupied by the image), should be transparent: that is, whenever I send it to the printing service, the base color of the selected paper should be visible, without any ink being printed on it (not even white - the paper will have a base color/texture that I do not want to print over) Currently exporting the page to a png file creates an image with my original image on a white background, since that is what the background in scribus is set to. I do not want this: I want the image to be on a transparent background. I have taken a look in all possible menu options and I have been unable to find where can I set the background color, which currently seems to be white. I do not know if it is possible to set the background color of a page, and in case it is possible, if it is possible to set it to transparent. How can I achieve this in scribus?
I am pretty new to Photoshop and am trying to do 2 things. I'm pretty sure this is the right site for this question. How do I horizontally and vertically center a Layer, or Text or an Image on the canvas, and how do I give Text a multi colored gradient, as shown in the picture below?
I have this two-sided layout that I need to print. The way my project is structured (a party flyer), the front page must be rotated 180° when printing, and the back page must stay as-is (or the other way around, it does not matter). How can I rotate a page 180° in Scribus? Ideally I would just rotate when printing, but if there is no such option, I could rotate the page in the document after doing my editting. I have found just the option of mirroring horizontally/vertically the pages, but I think that applies to all pages, not to a single one.
In Illustrator I used the Type on path tool and typed a word on a black drawn line. I have change the style of the brush the line is using and now I want to change the color of the line. The text and the line seem to have been merged into a single object and when I change the color of the selected object, only the font color changes, the line does not change. If I move the text, the line moves with it. They seem to be one object but the text paints separately from the line. How do I paint the line? I have replicated the results in the screenshot below. Top picture: Created text on a line. Changed the brush stroke of the text, which added the effect visible in the bottom. Bottom picture: Changed the color of the stroke, which only edits the font stroke, not the brush that is now visible.
I am designibg a banner 6' by 4' at what resolution should an image 2' by 3.5' I would like to use be?
If I have a text that I want to have the same color as an object I can't select the text and then use the eyedropper tool to get the color from a (for example) rectangle. The text will get the Fill correctly, but the text will still be black. This is because the Characters layer is above the Fill layer in Appearance. How can I use the eyedropper to change color on text? I should add that the eyedropper works sometimes, but not all the time. Sometimes the fill ends upp under "Characters", thus the fill color isn't shown.
I would like to know what font this is, or the name of a similar font. I've already tried with font from an image recognition services and also sites with step by step font identification. It's not a typical serif or sans-serif font, so no luck so far. I've decided that it's easier to use one of the similar fonts and to customize it for the final result. Thanks everybody for your help.
I have a 5760px x 3840px image with a filesize of1.14MB. I would like to reduce its filesize to 200KB without altering its dimensions. How can I do this in Photoshop?
I have a friend who is a jewelry designer that works for a small jewelry shop and she mentioned to me that her boss is looking for someone to edit some images of the staff, not sure how many exactly, may be about 10? Basically He want's their images edited to look "sketchy". I think he only wants the images edited and sent back as he will use them for a magazine. Going on the basis that there are about 10 images to edit of the staff, how much should I charge for such a task? I've been through University and now work as a full time graphic designer (just over one year) doing in house work so I've never really done freelance work and have no idea what to charge. I don't want want to mention a price that's too high and I lose out on the work but at the same time I don't want to be under paid for my work. I know there won't be a set in stone answer for this but a rough price range so I don't get ripped off. (in pounds sterling)
I've come here seeking for a bit of design help or advice on how I could possibly improve the following: Like the title says, I'm having a website banner with multiple text displayed on different images as backgrounds. Now, since most of the images are dark, I've set the font color as white. But even then, some of the text is not very readable on a couple of images like: Since I'm working with CSS, I've tried different options such as: Adding Text Shadows: CSS: text-shadow: 3px 3px 0px #000; Also tried, creating a semi-transparent box around the text: Demo I feel the box one looks out of place. I've created a fiddle for anyone who knows CSS. If not, please feel free to advice me based on your imagination alone. PS: You could also advice on using a different font if that would help it stand out better.
I would like to add a proper screenshot to an iPhone product image to create an ad for an iOS 7 app. Apple provides such product images as .psd files for Photoshop, however I only have Gimp 2.8.10 (for OS X) available. When viewed in GIMP, the product image contains two layers: one for the whole device, the other for its screen. Adding the raw screenshot to the product image is simple enough: "Open as Layers ..." plus "Scale Layer". However, I am also supposed to hide my actual (screen-captured) status bar in favor of Apple's generic version (it has a full battery icon, etc). Apple's App Store Marketing Guidelines state that "status bar options are provided on different layers within the Smart Object layer" but GIMP apparently does not render these finer details in the .psd file (and I am also unfamiliar with these concepts). So my question is this: can I use GIMP to combine my screenshot with the product image template such that a generic status bar in the template becomes visible without "brute" copy/paste, i.e. by following a procedure analog to the one prescribed for Photoshop? What would be the right steps?
i didn't really use Illustrator before, but i'm having troubles with some basic things such as aligning shapes together accurately. I'm using this auto-snap feature to align things but it's never really pixel-accurate as shown in the screenshots: Whenever i try to resize the shape so that it fits the edges of the circle it snaps back as shown in the screenshot. Don't get me wrong, i just want to have the shape the same size as the outter circle.
Hello graphic design exchange. I have a question about creative commons and its mix usage for printed materials. As you know there are lots of websites offering free vectors for commercial uses. In my case, it is freepik.com. It says it allows commercial usage if we attribute them. My question is how can we attribute on printed materials like business cards? For example I design some business cards for my freelance customers and want to use some brush or shape from one element. Maybe I use lots of background elements seperately. How can I attribute on business card for example? For example a web banner, how can we attribute? or a smaller project a logo and I like a shape vector and want to use by mixing other elements, how can I attribute these types of designs? edit: this question marked as a duplicate, but I have different situation. On a magazine, there can be a copyright, on a poster, there can be a little statement, but on a business card design? For example floral vector backgrounds from a cc licensed file?
I really don't know how to explain this in words in a simple way, so just take a look at the photo I've linked to below. I have a compound path, and I want to multiply it, but have a "stroke of transparency" around each shape, just like in the image below. How can I do that? I've tried with pathfinder, but I can't get it right. Thank you!
I have problems saving my photoshop file as a pdf or eps vector graphic. It wont include some of the layers and I cant see why. See screenshot below: screenshot: psd (left), pdf (right) I tried out photoshop cs5 and cs6, both wont work on the file. example: psd and pdf file (zip) Can anyone tell me whats wrong with my psd file? I have other similar graphics where the export to pdf works as desired. thanks for any hints. update1: blending mode is normal, there are no differences between the layers which are displayed and the layers which are hidden. i tried multiple pdf-readers (adobe reader, document viewer, texworks viewer), this shouldn't be the problem. in addition, opening the pdf in illustrator gives the same result. update2: rasterizing the layers is a workaround, but I need vectorized output, that's why I save it to pdf/eps... update3: as i'm in hurry and i need this for my bachelorthesis i used the "dirty" workaround mentioned by Martie and rasterized the layers. the result is OK for my needs. still, it would like to find out how this happened to avoid such hassle in future.
I'm putting some type on a path, a circle; but when I do it, the type is upside down. How can I flip it so it reads the right way up? See image below:
I was wondering how I would go about recreating this look on a photo using Photoshop?
I have a detailed map illustration made of country shapes sitting very precisely alongside each other. I'd like to simplify the paths to reduce the file size of my SVG but still have the edges of the shapes match each other. When I use Simplify Paths, the shapes end up with gaps or overlaps because the paths have different angles and curves, of course, and are treated differently. See: Any ideas?
I work with a creative services that has created a Flash animation for a page my team is building out. The animation was created using Flash Catalyst, and we're experiencing an issue where, once the animation gets to the end of its loop, it pauses for around half of a second before it starts over again. We're looking for the transition to be smooth. We have auto-play and loop checked in the options. Is there something else about the method of exporting the movie in Flash Catalyst that could be causing this undesired pause?
I have written some information in a slide. After that I have added many animations( picture, table) on top of information which I have written previously. Now I want to modify these information. Please suggest me how to do that in powerpoint 2010.
I want to blend this image dynamically over a background. So, I want to extract it as a PNG with transparency. I photographed the ship-in-a-bottle on a surface that is roughly the colour of the background I want to blend onto, so it doesn't need to be absolutely perfect (the transparency would be very difficult, but I'm not going to worry about that! The part I'm interested in is the shadow. Does anyone have any good ideas of how to extract it as a flat-ish colour with all the detail in the alpha channel? So that the shadow should work over basically any other surface? It would be nice to retain detail in the shadow, but not too much of the detail from the grain off the stone that it was photographed on. My best bet right now: Roughly cut it out of the background Desaturate, ramp up brightness/contrast to create a black/white image that can be used as a mask Use this mask on the original image again to retain the colouring of the shadow Play with the colouring until it looks correct over various textures. Problem is, I'm not sure this will retain the quality from the original image. It would also be nice to retain some of the bright refracted light as well as the shadow! I'm using Photoshop CS3.
I have an drawing that was created with colored markers. I've scanned it and would like to use it as clip-art/icon style image. I'm wondering how I can smooth out the colors of the image such that the marker strokes are no longer visible. I've tried posterizing, but this also ruins the edge of the image and ends up appearing too extreme. Are there some other techniques I could use to make an acceptable-looking icon or clip art from a scan of a marker/crayon/colored-pencil drawing.
I'm trying to figure out how to subtract two images in Photoshop so that the result is an image with transparent layer. Basically it all boils down to the fact that if color of the pixel is the same, it sets pixel in transparency layer to black. What's the easiest method to achieve this kind of result in Photoshop? Below is a visual example of what I'm trying to achieve (a figure with transparent background, NOT WHITE) Thanks!
I have created a pie chart and colored it and all is looking good, however I am stuck with lines between each section and ideally I would like a solid color with no outline. Been searching around and can't seem to find it anywhere. Here is an example of what I am trying to achieve: http://vector.tutsplus.com/tutorials/designing/how-to-create-outstanding-modern-infographics/ Scroll down to step 15. Thanks for any help, also I'm using illustrator CS5
A nytimes.com graphic that I recently visited shows a nice way to draw scatter plots. I wanted to know more about how to make such plots. I would also like to have recommendations on open source or freeware softwares that are out there, which can accomplish this task. The following is an example problem: plot a bubble chart, for a certain type of actuator, representing the force generated by the actuator on the y-axis, the year it was introduced on the x-axis and the volume of the actuator being represented by the area of the bubble. The best solution that I currently have is amcharts (from amcharts.com). But the results are no where close to the nytimes.com graphic.
I inherited a bunch of Flash animations that I am in charge of updating, maintaining, editing, etc. They are really basic animations, really just sideshows of pictures with the occasional floating text. My question is, some of them are 30fps and others are 24fps. I am the kind of guy that likes standardization, so I would like to set them all the same. There is no documentation as to why the person that originally created them used two different speeds (in fact I am not even sure if they were all made by the same person). Any real advantage with one over the other?
I need help with creating a new layer in Illustrator. I work with Photoshop on a regular basis doing design work and although I've worked with illustrator a few times, I'm only really getting into it now with my tablet. I'm struggling with a small issue and need help. When I create a new layer and start to draw in it, Illustrator automatically jumps back to the previous layer and my artwork appears there instead!!?? It has happened almost consistently for a week now and I'm wondering if there is a setting causing it. My layers are all listed in the layers panel but all the artwork sits on layer 1. illustrator won't allow me work in a new layer. Please help - very frustrated.
I am well versed with Photoshop and how it works. But recently, I decided to make a poster for my home and for that I'll have to use Illustrator so I need some help from you guys along the way. Illustrator CS6 has some Photoshop effects included by default in its filters. After applying a "Photoshop" effect (in this case, the cutout artistic effect), will the output be vector because it was made in Illustrator? If not, then how can I go ahead and make it vector?
I have opened an image in Adobe Photoshop, showing a green football lawn. In Photoshop, this image is displayed with a violet color. Every picture I open has not it´s original colors. Settings are: Image Mode: RGB Color; 8 Bits/Channel This is what my workbench looks like: If I select the lasso tool (or similar tools) and hover over the image, it gets it´s original color. Update The problem has disappeared since a few days. I have changed nothing at all...
I am using gimp for windows 7. I have an image of a color gradient line (top is black middle white, bottom black) and I want to use gimp to extend the bottom of the line. Meaning, I want to make the black part of the line longer than it is. How can I do this? I do not want to effect the sizes of the other colors on the line.
I am new to shape layers in CS6, and am running up against this issue: How do I create a stroked line path (with no fill) with precise dimensions? All I'd like to do is create several horizontal rules exactly 306 pixels wide.
What resolution (in pixels/inch) should I use when designing graphics for a standard Windows Forms .NET application? I am using Adobe Creative Suites to design the graphics. I will be using the System.Drawing.Graphics class in .NET to draw the graphics on the screen.
Is it possible in photoshop to adjust the line tool while holding SHIFT so it could create a 26 or 30 degrees line angle ?
I just upgraded to Photoshop CS6 from CS5.5 and I'm finding most of it is fairly similar so no problems there, the only issue I have is with the pen tool which is the thing I use the most. I do a lot of custom shapes (whatever the client needs so from an oil rig to a tank) and I use the pen tool to create them so they are vectors. I know I could use other programs but I'm very happy using the Pen tool..until now :( 1st issue I've discovered is that when I'm drawing a shape but need to back up a little by pressing Ctrl+Z, when I put down my next point it starts in on a new layer, leaving my original shape unfinished. Anyone know how to stop this? 2nd issue isn't so bad, I'm just frustrated that they've made some options more difficult to get to and was wondering if there's a way to expand them so they're all visible? It's the options to add or remove from the shape, they used to all be laid out across the top, but now they're in a drop down menu titled 'Path Operations'. Thanks in advance.
i'm trying to have a font letter (in this case "r") half green and half gray.So I Created the outlines from the letter and achieved this : When I go resizing (making it smaller) it the letter get distorted though: Where is the problem? I have the scale effects and strokes selected in the transform palette. Thanks Luca
i have just changed my job in my new office when i start work on Photoshop and Corel Draw the all shorts keys changed is there any option to restore my complete software without installation.
I need to create a spectrum of white light or rainbow, in different shapes. When I use this method my clones are still the same color of the first. Does any one have a better method or another solution?
Is it possible to achieve this effect using a few filter combinations in Photoshop? http://cl.ly/183m2V253O1U2u0j2642
How do Graphic Designers share work they put in the public domain? I'm looking for a site that provides publicly visible, collaborative behavior like Github (which is for source code). For those not familiar with the behavior of Github, here's an example: You upload a PSD of an image you want to put in the public domain. I can "watch" that image and be notified when you make changes to it. I can submit a "pull" request with changes I've made to your image, and you can decide whether to accept them or not. Anyone can download the PSD and use it (within bounds of the license). Anyone can see the history or progression of the image as changes have been made. Are there any websites that offer this?

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