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If I select the Type tool, click somewhere in my composition and type in some text, it appears that I cannot resize the area the text occupies without resizing the text itself. However, if I click and drag, to create a text block instead, I can use the corner handles of this block afterwards to reposition and resize th...
I'm making a iOS app, it needs to target newer retina devices as well as the older 3GS and iPad 1. Usually I'd just export them at 72 PPI, but for retina is it 150 PPI or 300 PPDI (or another)? Am I right in thinking that I just make the graphics at retina spec and the older devices will just have to use them?
I've recently graduated from university (within the United Kingdom) and I'm trying to get my first step on to the ladder within the graphic design industry. It has been several months and I'm having trouble even getting an interview. I was wondering if anyone has any tips on how I should approach my CV. The following l...
I've realized that simple textures like the one used on this site: ..add a lot to the look of a page. How are they made though? I'm not very experienced in Photoshop, but I can't imagine what tool would be used to make the random specs across the pattern.
I noticed that in Adobe CS6 there is still no way to import *.svg files into Adobe InDesign and Photoshop. Now I want to use a lot of svg's from "TheNounProject", due to their high quality and visual consistency. But part of it is also to "play around" with them, basically to find the most suitable image for the accom...
In many proportional fonts, numerals (i.e. 0123456789) have identical width to facilitate vertical alignment. My question is simple: are there any characters that conventionally share the exact same width as these ten? For example, I've found one font where the '=' character is the same width as the numerals: 0000000...
I'm not a designer (as is probably obvious from the vague question), but I'm being asked to design the signage that will go on the front of our offices. Our logo is deliberately simple, blocky white text on black, with blocky black text on white below. The people we share an office with have a similar logo, but with so...
I am struggling to create a gradient without banding. I have watched all the videos on YT and tried: Bluring all kinds, Noise, Dither,bit depth, Brush and doing the gradient in Illustrator. Everything fails and I can always see the banding. The background color I use behind the image: 050b3c
I am finalizing the last step of my logo redesign process. Is it ok not to have a regular color when presenting my logo? I am thinking about having a defined list of colors for different use cases but will this take away from my brand?
I'm trying to do some rigging removal (something I do often in Photoshop), but for some reason all of a sudden I cannot open ANY movie format or image sequence in Photoshop (the option isn't even there for image sequence). This has never been a problem before. I have the problem in both CS5 extended and CS6 extended. I...
I have a problem with Adobe InDesign. When I change the page's background color (by modifying the Swatches>Paper color), and export it to PDF by going to File>Export, in InDesign - the outcome of that has a page with a default (white background). I'm an InDesign beginner - in fact this is the first time I every used i...
I'm a Photoshop n00b, working with version CS6. I'm trying to fix up a PSD I was sent from my client so I can convert it to HTML and CSS. Here's a screenshot of some layers I've extracted, that hopefully will help illustrate my question: The two white shapes are in one layer. The black "i" is a text layer on top of...
I am trying to draw the viewers' eyes to the 'join now' button in the image below. My idea was to represent this with a series of 'waves' coming into a 'hot spot' in the middle. This concept should make you feel like clicking the 'join now' button. I need some fresh reviews on my idea and if it's correctly implemented....
I am taking a regular version of a typeface I love and making a light version of it, and I'm wondering: Is the light version just an inset of the regular version? Are there any special considerations I am missing? This is my first albeit tenuous foray into type design, and while I have experience with and appreciate ...
I was wondering what font is used by Unfuddle logo? To me it seems to be a customization of an existing font.
What typewriter font is used in this document?: If yes: Can I download a freely (as in freedom) usable font file for use in text editors ? If no: Can I (or anyone) legally create a font for computer use, released freely (as in freedom), by shamelessly copying it from this document ? Or something similar: typewriter /...
I'm trying to break down what skills I need to develop to draw a realistic human figure. At the moment I got: Gesture I have no good idea on how to exercise this, I mean, I have no good way to know if I'm doing gestures correctly and if I'm improving. Finding Forms That is, drawing the figure using spheres, boxes and ...
Arabic text doesn't show properly in Adobe Illustrator. Even with a font that supports Arabic text (e.g. Arial), the text is back to front (left to right, not right to left) and the letters don't join up properly. To an Arabic speaker, it's gibberish. I know that there is an Illustrator version for the Middle East but....
I have an image with a linear gradient overlay (banner image on this page EDF Energy - Our Campaigns. I have set the RGB colour in CS4 to R: 29 G: 31 B: 79. However, when I save the file for web the colour darkens slightly as you will see on the site. I want to colours of the background and edge of the banner image to ...
I'm trying to print a booklet to a PDF file instead of a printer in Adobe InDesign CS6. Adobe Acrobat X Pro is supposed to allow this: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobatpro/print-to-pdf.html So we got Acrobat X Pro, but printing to the PDF doesn't seem to do anything. The print booklet dialog closes and we never g...
I'm looking for a way to transform the RAL color palette to hex or RGB so I can use the colors in CSS (all/any of them). Is there an XML file someone can point me to, or a database somewhere, that's an elegant solution, rather than my scraping the data myself? (BTW very surprised "hex" and "RAL" aren't tags here...yet)...
I'm trying to create a rounded rectangle with zigzag borders in Adobe Illustrator CS5. This is how I want it to look like: With the normal zigzag effect on a rectangle with no rounded corners, I get this very ugly effect: So my question is how I can influence the zigzag around the corners. Do I have to do this by han...
I was browsing Dribbble when I noticed a few shots using an effect which appears to look like a magical beam of light, or a "magical smoke" and I could not find out how to create such an effect. If these effects are created in a software which is different than Photoshop, please let me know. Including a PSD file would ...
Does anyone have any recommendations, links, or tutorials on how to create a similar effect to this using a normal photo? More: http://www.behance.net/gallery/Nike-60-Surfcali/1242523 My goal is to create a subdued, dream like photo with gritty, tactile texture.
I am looking for a choice of fonts where (in capitals) the horizontal lines are relatively low. For example in this Martini logo: The horizontal in the A and R are way below the middle of the shape. Perhaps there is a term for this like "ground-bound" fonts or something. Otherwise, perhaps somebody knows a list of fo...
I have an image with color (in photoshop), it is 512x512 with a radius of 80. This image has several blending options like color overlay, gradient, pattern overlay, etc. I am trying to export this image to illustrator so I can add a 3d effects but when I import it to illustrator, and select the image, the outline is...
I have two photoshop pngs, I am trying to simulate a rotating coin 3D effect. One image will act as heads and the other will act as tails. How can I get these two images to rotate together to simulate the front and back of a coin spinning on a 0 axis? Output to be either a gif or mpeg4. Here is an image of the head...
I'm struggling to get the following done in a single action: I have retouched full res TIFF's - each with a product shot on transparency background. The products are in slightly different place in each image. I need to resize the images to 725px x 680px and place the product within guides. I managed to set up an acti...
Is it possible to create a button with only the shadings... (e.g. Photoshop: Bevel & Emboss, Drop Shadow etc.) ...and then place that button on top of another graphical element, e.g. a green square and get the effect of a nice shaded green button? The big win is that then I could have my app users personalize the color...
Here's what I want to achieve: pretty simple right? BUT, I'd like the text to remain editable in a simple manner, that is: Editable text (no outlined font); Only one line of text (any change has to be done once); The text color must adapt when moving the text around. I'tried many combination of masks with no luck......
Is it possible to change the colors of a symbol in a document without breaking the link with its original shape. Eg.: I have a square a symbol. I have two I races of them in my document. I want on black with a red stroke and the other one yellow with a green stroke. But if I edit the symbol to say, a circle, I want al...
How could I slightly rotate a photography thumbnail like this? (e.g. first web videogamer.com): How and how much should I rotate the photography to change the perspective in a slightly 3D way? Is there a tutorial I could follow to make it correctly, so it looks nice and not "As-I-think"? I will appreciate it, thanks....
I'm trying to achieve the effect shown below, but with a photograph and I'm having some trouble maintaining the height width ratio so the photograph doesn't look too distorted - can anyone offer any tips or tutorials? Thanks in advance for your help.
We are going to reach 10 million users on our site quickly. We were hoping to honor that achievement by adding something to the logo that nods to it. Like a badge '10 million users' added to our site logo. Does anyone have any examples of sites that have added onto their logo (other than 'Beta')?
I have an image I'm just copy and pasting into Photoshop from another screen/web browser. It's a greyscale clipart-style line drawing on a white background. I want to change ALL the white pixels in the image to another color (a specific RGB value), including the white pixels inside the drawing. The Replace Color comma...
Adobe Reader shows pdf's with "linked files" correctly, but Illustrator CS5 asks to "replace missing links", which I do not have (and even if I did, I wouldn't enjoy dealing with each one). It is obvious, that a .pdf contains the "links" (since I can print them perfectly), but Illustrator for some reason doesn`t use t...
I have recorded an action in which I do the following: Auto tone Size 640 width Save for web Close without saving I open a bunch of files and try to automate batch with this action. I say source opened files, destination none. For many years I did this same thing and it worked. Now I buy the latest version (CS6) and ...
I downloaded Apple's iPhone 4S product images (log-in required). I'd like to just copy/paste a 640x960 screenshot of my app from my iPhone 4 to the psd file. However the psd file has 4x dimensions. So a simple copy/paste results in a tiny screenshot of my app on this huge iPhone 4S. What's the best way to work around t...
I have an image I wish to colorize using a picked color. What is the handiest/easiest way to do this in GIMP? I've tried my best by checking the palette for my picked color's HSV, then using it as starting point to find corresponding HSL values for the Colorize window. But this seems absurdly difficult and imprecise. I...
Now it is very easy to make text to path (text to curve) in Corel but once you do it, text becomes connected with curve in Object Manager and I cant figure out how to change outline or fill color only for the curve? Or in other words is it possible to somehow select only curve when it is connected with text? Obviously ...
I have inherited a design in a Fireworks file which I'm turning into a web page. I've never used Fireworks but it seems to be similar (user-interface-wise) to Photoshop so it's going okay. However, there are a number of fonts used in the design which I don't have installed on my PC. When I open the file in Fireworks...
Please kindly advise the missing steps for adding a glare (shining) effect to a yellow circle symbol, representing a coin. The effect should run every 2 seconds. The symbol will be exported and be Embeded from inside of a Flex game. I have already prepared the following and I think not much is missing, but I'm not a F...
I seem to be stuck in a situation where all I can get out of some designers(through a client so it's a little embarrassing now I've asked more than three times) is some vectored pdfs. I need to put these graphics on a website, and it'd be nice to preserve the vectorisation by converting them to a vectored png. I've tr...
I have been given a design / style guide for a website that has the fonts expressed in point (pt) measurements, and additional leading and kerning adjustments - e.g. 40pt font, 60pt leading, -30pt kerning. I would like to use em, rather than pt or px in the CSS, and am assuming (using reset) a base font size of 16px. T...
Is there a rule of thumb for determining grid gutter size as it relates to type size? I'm struggling with this issue on the web, especially when dealing with larger size type set at 20px and above. It seems that with larger type, the 20px gutter is barely enough to create space among different columns, maybe the solut...
I'm looking for an affordable alternative to Illustrator, for Mac or PC, or even iPad, for drawing vector graphics. I have training and experience with Freehand (RIP) and Illustrator, but cannot afford to maintain the upgrade chain on my personal machines. Thanks.
Suppose I draw with grid -paper, I want some automated way to remove the grid fast. I have earlier used the magic-wand tool in Gimp but it is not really robust and now looking some good solution for batch-editing. The hack of changing the paper will work but I am looking here to automate the grid removal with ready wor...
Often when I move an artboard in Illustrator using the mouse, the contents end up having moved half or 1 pixel within the artboard. Is there a setting or something else I can do to prevent the artboard's contents from moving in
I need to create a master artboard containing one or more other artboards to export work as sprites. However, the only way I can figure out how to do this is to create a blank artboard of the necessary size and then drag artboards into it. Is there a better way to do this - perhaps a keyboard or mouse shortcut?
I'm currently dealing with a printer, who I've been working with for a year or two. We've sent off to had one of our brochures reprinted - the same files as last time, except now they're having some problems with the files. The exact wording in their email was: We have a bit of an issue with your files, the black text...
I have this project where I have a bunch of smart objects. All are actually Groups of other smart objects that essentially are vector graphics. The project is fairly low res, and the time has come to upsize the total image. When I tried to resize the smart objects (the main ones, the Groups of smart objects) it resu...
I have 2 logos saved in a PDF file. I sent them to my printer to have a banner printed using those logos. THe printer is saying they are not high enough resolution. How can I reformat them so they are usable for my banner? Thanks in advance.
Will the resolution or the aspect ratio be different if I take a 500x500px screen-capture or screencap when I am using a Retina Display compared to a standard HD screen?
How will Font Rasterization and Sub pixel rendering be affected with the new retina displays?
I have a specific perspective transformation that I want to apply to an image. How can I enter the matrix values manually in GIMP instead of playing around with stretching the image until the numbers come out right (which is virtually impossible)?
I have a problem I could not solve. I am doing a poster in Corel Draw X5, and as it is a physics poster, I need to put mathematical equations in it. The Corel built in text editor is just completely not enough for that, and as far as I tried I couldnt' find any way to transport (graphically!) a mathematical equation cr...
When I create a masked image (blue) with a rounded rect, with the same rect as the background (red), the background shows through the corners of the masked image (see attached). How can I make it so no pixels show through?
Suppose I'm going to make a typography poster (or whatever) that's going to be posted for advertisement in, let's say, Facebook, how high should the resolution be? Any specific numbers I should have to remember? I've been struggling with this for so long HAHAHA and I couldn't find anything. Every time I save it as jpeg...
In the Iconography section if the Android Design Guide they describe the following style that should be used for Launcher Icons: Use a distinct silhouette. Three-dimensional, front view, with a slight perspective as if viewed from above, so that users perceive some depth. I'd like to know how to create this effect w...
I have an image of the USA. I'm currently cutting it up into layers, one state per layer. I'd like to convert this into an image map, with all the glorious html around that. Is there a simple method to do create this form of polygonal image-map? If not a simple method, what would be the more complex method within ph...
I've been having some trouble lately trying to create some simple images when going from AI to PS. I'm initially starting out with this apple logo vector that I want to convert to a white color in photoshop, clipping away the rest of the image, leaving only the logo. These are the steps that I'm taking that seem to le...
I have some iphone apps, and if I have few elements, I'm wondering what I should think about in terms of design when I'm deciding to use a dashboard ala http://mobile-patterns.com/dashboard-navigation vs a tableview http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/c2036dee19.png. For instance, say I have an app where users vie...
I have seen photos that have a nice glossy sheen or shine to them when viewed on the web. I would like to replicate this view but in searches I am only able to find how to do this with text or icons and have had poor results trying to make this looks good and realistic with a photograph. How can this be done for a phot...
I'm working on a CD foldup for a friend and it's a tri-folded 12cm by 36cm sheet printed on both sides. It creates six 12cm by 12cm pages, but I'm not sure how to work on it in photoshop. Should I create two different documents, both 12cm by 36cm, one for each side, or a single 24cm by 36cm to have every page on it? I...
I'm having trouble getting rid of these criss crossing anchor points in Illustrator. They're on the same path, but the anchor point is creating an extended path and thus a "criss cross". The odd thing is that the mirrored left side doesn't have this issue. Any thoughts? Problem looks like: Should look like:
I'll soon be completing my M.A. in technical and professional communications and will hopefully find employment in that field. However, I have recently developed a passion for fonts and font design and I have some ideas for beautiful and useful fonts I'd like to see. So, as a hobby I would like to learn the basics and,...
I'm having problems with my color picker in photoshop CS5 Image 1: I select the black [ish] bar. Color picker returns gray. Image 2: I select the white [ish] background below the black bar, color picker returns lighter gray. Now I thought the color picker was using grayscale, so to test, I did the same with blue. Image...
What techniques (or different fonts) could I use to fonts to make small text (about 10px) look nice in Photoshop? Here is what I tried, but every time it looks blurry, or too bold:
I have an icon in illustrator but when I export to Photoshop I get white around the shadow in the image. Please advise how to remove the white. I have the icon in layers. original ai file http://www23.zippyshare.com/v/43531370/file.html Thanks
Is that possible to somehow run AI2Canvas plugin in Illustrator CS6? I used it in CS5 version successfully and it did its job just great, but now when I start Illustrator, it shows an alert that it can't load the plugin and it doesn't appear in export options as a result.
I am having an issue with Firefox rendering a few of the .png's that I have loaded into a Wordpress blog that I am preparing for a client. The images look fine in IE 8 & 9, and chrome, but it looks very off in Mozilla. I was informed by our other UX guy that Firefox complies with embedded color profiles that may warp t...
I've got to make a presentation but I don't know the ratio of the screen it will be viewed on. It will also have to be available in printable version (A4). What slide ratio is more appropriate given these constraints? Any suggestions?
What's the most accurate technique for re-creating a gradient in Photoshop from a bitmap image like a screenshot? So far I've been using the dropper tool to pick out colors and manually set color stops but it seems like there must be a more accurate way of setting the position and the number of color stops using an ex...
OT Bold vs Pro Bold More generally, when two fonts differ only by the last bit of their name, what does it mean? Is it "the same font", but by different foundries?
Basic situation: I have an image with a complex alpha channel (ie. feathered, complex non-linear edges). I have an image I want to overlay on top of the first image using a blend option like multiply or maybe screen. ...but I must preserve the EXACT alpha channel of first image. Can I do this in photoshop? If I paste...
Does anyone know a way of addding a square background to text in photoshop? I want something like the same effect that is on subtitles in movies. See examples below. I can do it with adding a new layer with a black square and reduced opacity behind, but it seems so "hackish" and its difficult to get the same offset, co...
Using - Illustrator CS5 I have created an image which has a shadow behind it. This shadow is a shape with a gradient applied that is black to transparent. I have saved this Adobe Illustrator file out as a PDF file and printed it. However when I print it out the tranparent part of the shadow has ended up printing out ...
I have created a layer and I need to move it exactly 1 pixel right and 1 pixel down. How do I do it? Please help.
I found this image on the internet: I want to use this style on some icons. Is there anyone familiar with this style and do you have an advice for me?
I'm playing with a celtic knot work shape, which means that I want to split a path which crosses itself at that intersection. How do I tell it what segment I want to split? It's one path but different segments of that path. For instance, there is the horizontal segment, and then a segment which is tilted at 120 degrees...
Is there an accepted way to adjust font glyphs in order to simulate text figures? Background Text figures are "lowercase" digits. You normally use lowercase digits where you also use lowercase text (e.g. in the middle of a sentence). Keyboards were never created with uppercase and lowercase digits; and Unicode doesn't...
I have a button image in a PSD file. The image is in single layer. I want to change the color of the border to a bright green color. How do I do that in Photoshop? Thanks!
What's the best way to create something similar to the panel that the controller sits in: This is for the web and using photoshop. I think the gist of it is an inner glow on a low opacity background, what I'm struggling with is that the glow/stroke almost looks like a gradient and I'm not sure how to achieve this. Wo...
I'm a software developer and am working on a personal project (website + iphone/ipad app). I need simple illustrations for these to fill in the blanks until the project gets "some" paying customers or I find investors. With more money I can hire some graphic design folks to do a great job. As for now, I'm aware of the ...
I created my logo in Adobe Illustrator and i'm happy espect that when i need it smaller, it looks pretty ugly and fuzzy. Like pixels are getting squeezed. Here is a screenshot of the original on the right and the smaller one on the left: I am sure i am doing something wring in Illustrator since i don't have much exper...
Anybody know where there are some Microsoft Office Icons that are at least 500 x 500 pixels wide and a good resolution to download? I might even be willing to pay for them, I just don't want to have to make them all, gag. Any help would be appreciated. If you don't know of anywhere to get them, any tips on making them?...
I've just finished trialing TutsPlus and decided not to renew as the majority of their content is coding tutorials. However I did watch a course on Adobe illustrator which was really good and want to find other sites that have videos done by talented designs that tell you their tips and workflows for using Adobe illus...
When I have a circle shape and now I substract from it a little square in the middle, what I get is a shape that looks like hollowed circle. But in fact in its paths I still have my whole shape of circle and a 'substraction path'of a shape of square. How to make it a real substracted path, so when I combine this shape ...
Publications often seem to like to make parts of images poke above text or design elements, either subtly or clearly. For example, in this Radio Times cover, the top of a woman's head is positioned above the title of the publication. What name is given to this, and is there a reason for it?
Just for some background knowledge. I am absolutely terrible with graphics, but I attempt anyway. I am trying to create a dead simple graphic for my Android APplication while trying to follow the guidlines set by Google. (http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/ui_guidelines/icon_design_action_bar.html) They state...
I have two images (For the sake of simplicity, Image1 and Image2). I want to use Image2 as a transparency for Image1. How can I do that? Assume I've done little more with Gimp than play with some filters. Thanks.
I'm making an infographic and have found that the best way to make a vector of something is to start with a real something and basically make it monocolor (all black, or all blue). I am wondering if this is ok? The infographic is for work but we are a nonprofit.
We are learning image processing in computer vision course. There is question given in slides that "If you had to choose, would you rather go without luminance or chrominance?" So on which information we can compromise, luminance or chrominance and why? If this is not the right place to ask this question, please redire...
Pretty straight forward question, say in Gimp I have an image with 2 layers in question, one is temporary, I want to use it as the mask for the other. How can I transfer a layer into the mask of another? I get as far as having a grey scale floating selection which I can't place on the mask. I know how to paint on a mas...
Is there a simple way to copy all text in PSD file? I work with PSD layouts with many separate text layers and they often contain only one word.
I want to use the following image in an HD video: I'd like to use this image at a width of 400 pixels. As far as I know, there are no higher resolution versions available so I'm looking to scale up the small image that I do have. Now I know this comes with some perceived quality loss, but at least then I'd be able to ...
I have to make a button with some shadows using HTML/CSS and I've been provided with a PSD file, which has a shape of the button and some effects applied to it. One of the effects is an inner shadow. And it's blending mode is Multiply. There is no such possibility to use blending modes in CSS, so I think the only way ...
Possible Duplicate: Is there a way to get the equivalent of a color in different blending modes? I have an inner shadow effect applied to a shape with blending mode multiply. How to get the color of that shadow, if the blending mode was to be normal (only for this layer)?
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