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I have a semi-transparent monochrome image in a Photoshop document, that I would like to become fully opaque: The opacity is already set to 100% in Blending Options, it's just that this image has an alpha channel that I would like to remove. How can I do that?
So I was reading two documents on typography and each classifies font types in completely different categories. One document says we have : serif, sans serif, text, script, display and dingbats. The other document says we have : roman, egyptian, sans serif, script and miscellaneous (to attract attention). I went over different websites and each seems to "make up" their own categories (like slab serif). So is there a standard way of categorizing fonts or is every one free to invent his/her own categories?
I'm trying to use the PDF CMYK export plugin for Inkscape, but it fails when I save the document. I have selected an ICC profile (A FOGRA39L.icc profile) and applied it to most of the colors in my document. When I try saving to a PDF, I get this: Am I doing something wrong? Is this known?
Here is a sample image : The white background is actually transparent. I'd like to keep only the black lines and surfaces, and make all other colours transparent. Is it possible to do this ? I'm using Pixelmator, but a photoshop process will be fine !
I'm using PowerPoint for a presentation (I know that other tools may be better, but not in this case). In a transition between two slides, I've to zoom part of an image (which is a simple tree structure, with a root and two children nodes/leaves) and pass to the next slide, like if the next slide extends the concept of one leaf. How is it possible to do that? I tried with growing the tree image, setting the leaf to the center/middle, but I'd prefer using a better technique (a transition instead of a group of animations) or a proper plugin.
I am trying to find a tutorial on how to create the effect of an object (in this case a crown) hanging on the edge of a letter (on the end of a word). I am designing a logo for our kids ministry at church. It is called "Kids of the King" and I have an eps of a crown and I want to hang the crown off the K in the word King. I am trying to make it where the back half of the crown is hidden behind the K so it gives the effect of it hanging off the edge of the letter. Can anyone help me with this? Thanks! Paul
Example: In the example image is House Gothic Font 3D Shadow and House Gothic font 3d Normal. How can I make it in Photoshop? the same effect like in the example with the font on the top transparent, making possible to see the background image. There is a good tutorial about it? which is technique?
Particularly interested in the illustrations of Alesha Sivartha http://www.wired.com/table_of_malcontents/2006/11/with_what_we_do/ For example, would you say they are Victorian, or Edwardian, or something else? I'm trying to put together a design concept for a website and am finding it difficult to speak about.
How can I tell if a color is a process or spot color in adobe illustrator? How can I tell if a color is a process or spot color in adobe illustrator?
In Photoshop, if you choose View > Show > Layer Edges, a blue border will appear around the currently-selected layer. Is there a way to make the marquee tool select that exact area? I know I can command-click on the layer thumbnail to select all visible pixels in the layer, but is there a way to quickly get a rectangular selection that matches the layer boundaries, or do I need to manually drag the rectangular marquee tool to match the layer boundary that Photoshop is showing me?
I have multiple partial screen shots of the same window. But since I created each of them at different times and since the I manually chose the select-area each time, the images don't line up. I want to, for example, be able to open up one of the images in any "image preview" program and scroll through the images without them "jumping" left/right/up/down because of my inconsistent screen captures. So, what's the quickest way to get the images to match up? More: The images all are mostly identical, with just a few parts changing from image to image. I need them all to match up so that when I look through them, the changed parts are obvious and so I don't get nauseated with all the jumping.
Want to check the current dimensions of an object/selection in pixels. How do I do this? Illustrator CS5.
I am new to Photoshop and therefore in need to get familiar with it fast. I wonder, if there is a way to divide Photoshop like a website, to make every picture (such as a website logo) editable seperately, so when I edit it, it automatically updates in the master Photoshop document. This would be very useful to me, if Photoshop had something like this, for organization and ease of use. I am making a website and I just have too many layers to manage. Thank you in advance
in our office we have multiple users all using different levels of creative suite, they include CS5, CS5.5 and CS6. Most adobe files seem to work fine when switching between different CS versions, ie. i can open a CS6 PSD fine in CS5. But with indesign files they dont want to open. I know about saving them as an indesign markup file and reopening them but from a work flow point of view this is quite tedious. Does any one know of a plugin that i can install on CS5 & CS5.5 that will allow me to work in native CS6 Indesign files ? or a batch converter tool that would allow me to drag a load of CS6 id files and convert them to either CS5 files or indesign markup files ?
I have recently calibrated and profiled my screen, with a ColorHug device. I'm using Gnome, and have the profile installed through gcm. When opening an image in GIMP and DigiKam, the results are quite different. Both apps have Color Management (CM) turned ON, working colour space sRGB with Perceptual rendering intent and the correct display profile (from system). Examples below showing with and without CM. The source image is sRGB. With CM: digiKam presents smooth shadow tones whereas GIMP has very harsh shadows. GIMP gives smooth shadows if set to relative colourmetric intent. Without CM: digiKam renders the image darker (or possibly with more contrast) than GIMP. (why?) As I understand, the CM application's job is to take the image, convert from the image's own profile (sRGB) to the display's profile, then pass it to the screen. Possibly there might be another transform ( image file → convert to working profile → convert to display profile → display ) but in this case, I believe the image comes with sRGB and the working spaces are also sRGB. Let's say, the purpose of the exercise is to make an sRGB image for use online. Can anyone advise on a way to get standard results? EDIT: it was suggested that the digiKam and GIMP no-cm images were the same except for the crop. I apologise for sloppy cropping, but this is not the case as can be seen here in this division of one version from another (it would be 100% white if they were the same...)
I've recently been offered a job designing a flyer for an event that a local organization is hosting. I was asked if I could also include the project files so they could easily alter the design for the next year of this event (it's a yearly competition). This is no problem with me and I will be sending them the project files for the design. What I do wonder however is if it is good practice to charge a bit extra for doing this? And if so, how much (in relation to the original cost) extra should I charge? Thanks for your input!
Apple often uses what looks like a "light" version of Lucida Grande or Lucida Sans Unicode, as seen here: I like the font a lot, but neither Lucida Grande nor Lucida Sans has a light version. Is this simply a proprietary Apple font, or is there some way of obtaining it?
i need to work on a cd packaging layout. i thought i can just open the pdf file with the basic layout in adobe indesign, so i can drop words and images on it. but that doesnt seem to work. if i 'place' the file in a new layer, it appears. but the quality is oh so bad. here is the pdf file i need to work with... http://www.appmulti.ch/website/download_cd_dvd/Kartonhuelle_Schlitz-fuer-1CD_6seitig_CDmittig.pdf can anybody help me ? i'm new with the software. thanks, rouven
how can I best replicate an ink-in-water effect in Photoshop CS6? I'm guessing the best way is most probably to use brushes. The following image is a good example of what I wan't to achieve: Thanks in advance, any help would be much appreciated!
Are there any typographic conventions/advice relating to footnotes? For example: When should numbers be used and when symbols? Should the footnote symbol be superscript in the body text and at the start of the footnote or superscript in the body text and normal size at the start of the footnote? How should footnotes be separated from body text. A horizontal line is common; are there other ways? Should the footnote body start straight after the symbol or be indented or on the following line? I had a look around the web but couldn't really find anything.
I'm learning about InDesign (using versions CS5.5 and CS6 - depending on which computer I use). I am competent at using it at a basic level - creating INDDs, creating joboption files for PDF export, and exporting to PDF. However, it's creating book files which I am having a problem with. Although the act of creating one isn't hard for me (I can do this the same as creating a new InDesign document), it's how to select pages from existing documents for a book that's the problem. I have looked up on Google how to do it, and although I understand it at a basic level, I need to try and get better on it. Currently I just create documents all as one file which I'm not sure is the right way to do things. In QuarkXPress, I could select pages and make a book fairly easily, but in InDesign, I noticed it imports the full document regardless of amount of pages. As it stands, not every machine will have Quark, and I prefer InDesign anyway for the sorts of magazine I'm doing - a small local community magazine for non-profit organization, also available as a PDF on our website too for those who don't physically pick it up. What would I need to do - create each page separately (in a subfolder where all the pages are stored, including images linked to, such as the following) folder mytest cover.indd page1.indd page2.indd page3to4.indd (2-page) page4to5indd (2-page) etc. etc. image1.jpg image2.jpg The magazine is about the size of this publication: but we were considering making it this big: (I'm not exactly sure what size) We may be using glossy paper like in the above magazines, so what size would you recommend for it? (currently we're doing it at 212x294mm, with 5mm bleed, making it 222x304mm when it's a PDF) (if you've seen these on the newsstands what size would you say they were in mm, are they about A4 size?) As for master pages, am I right in thinking you can use one document as a source file? My current project is a small, 32-page magazine, which has some articles, and some adverts in - is creating it as an INDD or as a book file the best way? Either way, it will be exported to PDF in the end. Any advice you have is much appreciated; it's not about the magazine content but the actual act of designing the magazine that's the issue, basically - should I do it as one long .indd file, or a book composed of several? Basically, I'm just looking for advice on how to brush up my skills in some areas of InDesign. (Just to add, it's a personal project not work one)
I'd like to know how to make these in photoshop or fireworks, but with a slight preference for fireworks. If I can find a tutorial in photoshop, I can probably get it to work in fireworks. What is this type of effect called? Is it a particular font they are using?
I have a vectorial image which is fairly complex (got it off the web) and it is some kind of a circle. While the center of this circle is white it is not transparent. I've been trying to apply a compound path over the image which has a clipping mask and I get this error from Illustrator: Cannot make a compound path. A compound path cannot combine a clipping mask with an ordinary path. Would you know how to do this or how to actually make the center of the circle transparent while being in a clipping mask. Here's the link to the actual image: http://www.free-vector-design.com/background-vector/abstract-circle-vector-1.html
I am creating a rather big photoshop document 3000x3000 which i want to print. I thought i took all the precautions: CMYK color mode 300ppi save as pdf and so on Still when i save the picture as pdf or jpg, SOME, not all, of the blacks turns out to be dark gray instead. I really don't know what to do since I need the picture printed tomorrow. Please help me out, if it helps I have the full .psd EDIT The different blacks originates from a "linear burn" blend mode on top of a black layer! which has no different black output in photoshop FIXED - Solution: I fixed the screen output by putting a black layer with the hex value #000000 on top of the other layers and setting it's blending mode to lighter color - which only doesn't allow the gray'ish black to shine through, but preserves the rest of the colors! Again - thanks a lot for the quick response, even though your comprehensive answer did not fix my problem, I am sure that it will help a lot of other people...
I am working with a pretty complex traced AI that I received, and I want to basically make it so that all the visually black stuff is shapes, and all the white outlines (invisible here) are removed. Most of the spaces when a line crosses over another is created by a white outline. I know about expanding appearance and the pathfinder tool, but because there are so many lines that are crisscrossing, I haven't had an easy way of minusing the fronts away. I could expand appearance and sort every object carefully, but I feel like there may be a quicker way of doing this. If I put it in Photoshop as a smart object in 'screen' mode, it looks right.. I could put that back in Illy and trace it, but I don't want to complicate the paths.
Does adobe premiere cs 6 supports distributed rendering? I have been searching and have found very few info about it. If it does, could you point me to a tutorial on how to set it up?
How to design the 3D red cube in the 1st poster? (Love the design!) http://www.coroflot.com/kevinburke/Posters Of course, they have mentioned that they used Pixel Art, Maya etc, but is it possible just to create the 3d red cube and map background in photoshop? Would really appreciate some tips! :) sammydude
In Adobe Illustrator CS3, how can I fill just the boxes of a plot with color? The plot displays as just one object in Illustrator, so it is not as simple as selecting the box object and filling it.
I have a lot of video footage in first person view, dramatic scenery, and a photo of an old man. I want to combine them to make a background picture (1920 x 1080) that should transmit the message: this is what he saw, this is what shaped his face. I came up with a picture mosaic, mixing pictures of the raw footage, but I found this unconvincing. Then I thought about showing the face of the old man and putting footage into his eyes as a reflection, but that would limit me to one or two pictures of the footage. How can I combine more pictures while conveying the idea of the first person point of view?
Say I have a texture/pattern (like this one from subtlepatterns), and I want to make it a specific colour. I know a number of ways to color it (mostly in PS), from overlaying it on a block of the color, adding a hue/saturation layer.. that way I can get it vaguely the right colour, what if I have a specific colour that I want it to mimic as closely as possible, say #e4caa5 as demonstrated here. Is there a general process I can follow to keep the texture of the image on the left and apply the color on the right without too much trial and error?
I am currently making a popover in Photoshop. I managed to do the main part using the rounded rectangular tool but not the triangle part: Is there a recommend way in Photoshop to do this triangle ? EDIT I have seen this post which is the closest to what i want but : I don't want round corner I want a stroke on the triangle but not on the basis
I need a "free for commercial use" font that looks like the font used in Windows Metro. It will be used for display on website, both titles and text. With bold and 'slim' version. Do you know of something like that?
Working in Photoshop CS5, I deep-etched an image using a tablet. Where I thought I'd really gotten it quite clean and feathered the selection by 2x before inverting the selection and deleting the background, it in fact left a fair amount of background colour tracing around the edges. What I would usually do is create a layer mask and use the brush on black to remove what's left. I was wondering if you perhaps know a faster, more efficient way of doing this?
**What are creative ways of representing user profile pictures on a homepage ( or you can call them avatars but they will always be a real small version of a real photo like 80x80 pixels in size. Are there any social networks that represent there users in a cool unique way? If you know some please share a link or an image :) thx! you have, a social media type site users registered with profile photo enough photos to show on the homepage perhaps roulate them a bit you want: creative way to represent those pictures be orginal use some colors and interaction ( rotate images) Some examples I like and look for concepts like this ( Im not from India ):
I want to re-size the bounding box for an existing block of text. I found that by holding down the CTRL key on Windows, it will let you scale the text block, but I just want to resize the bounds of the text not scale it. I've already looked at http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshop/cs/using/WSfd1234e1c4b69f30ea53e41001031ab64-75d7a.html which describes out to SCALE the text as noted above.
I have three layers open in Photoshop. Two are images. One is a text layer. I flattened and merged the background image which I originally filled with black and applied a gradient to. I then tried to apply HDR toning but the HDR toning option is greyed out although the Shadow/Highlighting is not. Why can't I access my HDR toning? I tried converting it to a smart object and ensuring it's rasterised; still nothing.
I have to design a brochure for a client. I don't understand much of brand identity, but my client says his brochure should reflect the following: Professional It should not be the flavour of the month Must inspire confidence Must reflect the strength of the team "Our corporate promise is: Reliable Energy". Therefore, it should inspire reliability. My question is, while designing, what are the things that I need to keep in mind so that I adhere to what he have asked for? I understand that the design should be simple, with standard colour and fonts. Apart from that, how can I make the brochure reflect the list above? How do you translate this in terms of design?
The title says most of it...not sure whether I should set Photoshop to Monitor RGB color profile and set "show proof colors" to true when working on desktop layouts. I notice that Firefox uses my monitor's color profile and Chrome does not. If I select sRGB everything seems way off, especially compared to what I see in either Chrome or Firefox. If it's any consolation, I am using two identical Dell IPS monitors (2209WAf). I have not calibrated them, yet, other then adjusting brightness/contrast based on color bars and other test charts (I know how to calibrate a video monitor off of SMPTE color bars, not saying I'm a pro at it, but I know these are close). Just so you can see the dramatic differences between the 3 color profiles - here's a shot comparing the three (taking a screen shot in photoshop, cropping it down, saving as JPEG)
A friend of mine works a lot with CAD programs like AutoCAD or Autodesk Tools. To his birthday I thought it would be a good idea to present him with a graphic tablet for 3D applications. Unfortunately, I'm very unexperienced in this field :-) so my questions are 1) is it really a good idea and 2) what are important characteristics of such a tablet I have to consider when I select one. I could image resolution, and size?
I have a problem with creating a simple lines patterns. I need few patterns (see picture) which I can use repeatedly. Something like brushes in Photoshop. How can I do this? Thanks
I have created a layer where I have drawn a straight line of thickness 2px, I need to apply a gradient overlay of a certain pattern but when i do it, the layer mask is not taking it and I see no changes in the line. I am relatively new to PS, I was wondering if anyone knew why this is happening?
Is it possible to have a noise filtered effect similar to below, but have the white parts transparent? My idea is to use this as a CSS background image overlay .png which would allow background colours to show through.
I have a game project, and I also have a side-view character I want to put in it. I have the character separated in multiple pieces: head, torso, arms, hands, legs... etc. Because I plan to make rather fluid animations. I need to make my animations frame-by-frame(Frame1.png,frame2.png...). I have managed to put all the body parts in Photoshop and animate him. Since you can't use timeline animation for rotating objects, I had to do it using the visibility tools (which was quite a pain). Such technique works: it does output my animation alright. But it is very time-consuming. So I'd like to know: do you have any better software ideas to do this? Something to make the animation easier to produce & export it? I have considered Flash (you could even use tweening to make smoother animations and it also allows rotation alright) - but it might be a bit overkill for my purposes (I wouldn't mind using it if there were no other choices though)
I'm attempting to place the end of a line segment at the intersection of a circle and a guide in Adobe Illustrator: I'm expecting the end of the line to snap into place at the intersection, but with no luck. Smart Guides and Snap to Point are turned on. Here is a short video of the problem: http://cl.ly/K3tr I'm using this guide/tutorial in order to "...connect a tangent line to a curved segment in order to create a smooth geometrically correct transition from a curve to a straight line..." - Tangent Lines to Curved Segments Is anyone familiar with this method that could shed some light on why it's not snapping? Thank you!
I'm looking for a way to simulate a permanent marker in Photoshop. All I have been able to find are pre-drawn brush strokes of circles, strokes etc. (Permanent Brush), but not a permanent marker brush tip which would allow me to draw/write whatever I want. Can anyone recommend PS brushes for this purpose? I don't mind paying for them, so it doesn't have to be a free Brush set.
I have this favicon file. Dowload favicon file I can not upload the image file since its does not have the proper format. When you view this file in windows 7, you get the following. This single file contains the same image but at different sizes. The above shows page 1 of 3. The following is page 2 of 3 which shows the same image but at a smaller size. And than page 3 of 3 yet again at a more smaller size. But it is one single file. My question is how is this possible and more importantly how can I make it such? A single file containing the same image with 3 diferrent sizes. It shows 48px X 48px dimensions. Since Adobe Photoshop does not support the ico format natively but if one use this ICO format plugin, install it and opens the file in PS, it will ask you which size image to import. The sizes are 16px X 16px, 32px X 32px and 48px X 48px.
I have unique shapes for my menu background, the problem is that the .png's are linked in the transparent area. I am looking to crop the canvases of these images in Photoshop to their exact unique outline. I need to remove the transparent area. Here is a link to my image to help illustrate.
I've got some text somewhere outside of the canvas border but I can't find it. Usually using move tool I can squiggle around until it peeks onto the canvas, but this time it must be WAY outside. I've hacked my way around the problem with copy and paste, but is there a "correct" way to pull it back onto the canvas?
I'm new to graphic design coming from a software development background. In this area, I can easily have feedback about my work by open-sourcing my code, participate to existing open-source projects, or simply ask others what they think... At a moment I envisaged to participate to crowd-sourcing design sites, but changed my mind as it seems finally to be a bad idea... So, where could I find the best comments and advice about my graphic design work?
I need to change over 60 web optimized images to fit their new containers. The current dimensions are 760 x 1024 or 1024x760. is there an easy or simple solution to manipulating all of these images to a smaller size without changing the height/width ratio?
I've got PSD file with vector logo (smart object). I need to save it as SVG for website use. I don't see such option directly in Photoshop though. Can anyone shed some light on the process? Is it possible?
In previous versions of GIMP only pressure was recognized by the brush tool. It wasn't much but it was simple. The new GIMP 2.8 introduces an all new brush dynamics system with a ton of customization and presets. I want to take advantage of it all, but I've gotten lost in the complexity, and the dynamics and tool presets that the new GIMP ships with don't seem to be any good, or at least I can't figure out what they're good for. So, those of you who have figured the new GIMP out: which dynamics presets should be used when and in combination with which brush settings? Any cool custom presets that I should know about? I'm using a Wacom Intuos 3 which reports both pressure and tilt. I've never used any other graphics program other than GIMP. I'm mostly drawing flat shaded, thick border cartoons as a hobby.
I am trying to create a single image from multiple photographs taken with the continuous shooting mode on my camera. The images are of a person jumping over a gap in some rocks. What I would like to know is how to 'merge' these all together. The images all have the same background as they were taken from the same place, I just want to have the time-lapse effect, where the image shows all the stages of the person jumping? Does that make sense? I know it's not the most advanced stuff, but I'm no designer! I just like playing around with my photies! :D Thanks in advance. PS. I'd like to do it in Photoshop, if poss. edit : here's the URL to a webpage showing an example of how I want my image to look. Also, I've managed to 'sort of' get the effect I want, using the Blend Darken option on each layer, but certain parts of each photo are now not showing properly. I'd like each image to still be nice and clear. :)
Do anyone know any algorithm which would calculate automatically kerning of characters based on glyph shapes when user types text? I don't mean trivial calculation of advance widths or similar, I mean analyzing the shape of glyphs to estimate the visually optimal distance between characters. For example if we lay out three characters sequentially in a line, the middle character should SEEM to be in the center of the line despite of the character's shapes. An example enlightens the kerning-on-the-fly functionality: An example of kerning-on-the-fly: In the above image a seems to be too right. It should be shifted a certain amount towards T so that it seems to be in the middle of T and g. The algorithm should examine the shapes of T and a (and possibly other letters also) and decide how much a have to be shifted to the left. This certain amount is the thing that the algorithm should calculate - WITHOUT EXAMINING THE POSSIBLE KERNING PAIRS OF THE FONT. I'm thinking of coding a javascript (+svg+html) program that uses hand drawn fonts and many of them lacks kerning pairs. The textfields will be editable and can include text of multiple fonts. I think that kerning-on-the-fly could be one way to ensure mean text flow in this case. EDIT: One starting point to this could be to use svg font, so it's easy to get path values. In svg font the path is defined this way: <glyph glyph-name="T" unicode="T" horiz-adv-x="1251" d="M531 0v1293h -483v173h1162v-173h-485v-1293h-194z"/> <glyph glyph-name="a" unicode="a" horiz-adv-x="1139" d="M828 131q-100 -85 -192.5 -120t-198.5 -35q-175 0 -269 85.5t-94 218.5q0 78 35.5 142.5t93 103.5t129.5 59q53 14 160 27q218 26 321 62q1 37 1 47q0 110 -51 155q-69 61 -205 61q-127 0 -187.5 -44.5t-89.5 -157.5l-176 24q24 113 79 182.5t159 107t241 37.5 q136 0 221 -32t125 -80.5t56 -122.5q9 -46 9 -166v-240q0 -251 11.5 -317.5t45.5 -127.5h-188q-28 56 -36 131zM813 533q-98 -40 -294 -68q-111 -16 -157 -36t-71 -58.5t-25 -85.5q0 -72 54.5 -120t159.5 -48q104 0 185 45.5t119 124.5q29 61 29 180v66z"/> The algorithm (or javascript code) should examine those paths some way and determine the optimal distance between them.
How can I improve this design? I'm kinda new to this and I've just felt a bit demotivated because I've been dealing with a difficult person. I intend to make the color of the copyright notice darker and add padding around the logo. I'm not sure about the blue sidebar on the left, but I was asked to make it similar to cia.gov website in terms of the color and side menu. I was also asked to add flickering star animation to the logo. I'm not too keen on the idea, I think it's a bit cheesy. Link Thanks!!!!
How do you create multiline text along a curve? I'm using the Type On Path tool for single-line text, but is there a way to make the text multiline?
I have an app idea which is based on the use of cartoon characters; I would like to include a single image of cartoon characters with their names, the app will be purely for reference and free. However, I'm worried that as most cartoon characters are copyrighted I could be subject to legal action. Am I covered by fair use? I know there are some cartoon characters which can be used as they are in the public domain however there are very few of them.
I'm preparing a textbook; mostly text, with some illustrations, and I'm considering Scribus. Does anyone have any suggestions on using Scribus for book-length material, or know where can I find appropriate templates?
What's the easiest way to do it? I know CSS could just set background color of text very easily. And fireworks was able to do that. But I can't make it work now. I know there is a harder way: putting a rectangle below the text. Or putting the text inside the rectangle.
Is there any way to add an outline to a brush so that when stroking a path it will give a sense of depth and layering where the path overlaps? As an example, here is an image of footprints. How could I add depth so that you can tell which footprints came later on (i.e. on top of other footprints)
I have type 1 fonts in pfb format that I would like to use with Inkscape on a Mac. However, I can't get Inkscape to find them. The instructions seem to be only for Linux or Windows, but I assumed things would work like in Linux. I could not find fonts.cache-1 files in my system, it seems like what fc-cache does is to populate a few locations like .fontconfig/ with -le64.cache-3 files (I assume this to be the same as the *fonts.cache-1 files). I copied the pfb file to ~/.fonts. From a verbose output of fc-cache, I could see that this directory was read and included in fontconfig's cache. But when I try to open a pdf file with this particular font, Inkscape does not use it and replaces by the default font. I've searched the web to no avail, there just isn't a lot of material out there on this. I've successfully opened the same pdf in Illustrator by copying the pfb file to Adobe's local font directory, so I know that the font works. But for some reason, Inkscape doesn't use it. Any clues? I am aware that I can convert the fonts from .pfb to .dfont or otf/ttf, but in my case it is just not practical. I am using the Inkscape.app downloaded from the webpage (0.48.2 r9819), XQuartz 2.7.4, and OSX 10.8.2. Thanks!
I need a little help, and general advice, on what I can put on the front page of my software company's website. I realise that this question is not as specific as some may like it to be, but I hoped that someone here would be able to point me in the right direction any how. I have a theme/template to work around which I do not really want to change for various reasons. I have created a rough 'drawing' of what the homepage currently looks like. As you can see, I have a table of reasons as to why people should purchase our software which I am quite happy with, however I think that it looks quite bare, so what else should I put there. I have expiremented with a slider, with some clipart to the left of some text, but for some reason it looked out of place. I think it was partly due to the clipart I was using. However, since trying sliders I have read that a lot of people are stopping using them because they are not actually effective, and are switching to they static images instead. So does anyone have any suggestions as to what I should put on my front page? What would you expect? I currently have two pieces of software for Windows and Mac and a support ticketing system. Though, I do plan on releasing more software for Windows, Linux, Mac, iOS, Android and maybe WP. My 'motto' is along the lines of great minds think alike. If that helps your ideas in any way. Thank you very much in advance
The previous version of Photoshop I used was CS4 and whenever I selected a portion of an image with the magic wand and hit Delete, it simply deleted that portion of the image (rendering it transparent). Easy! In CS6, this is not the case. Now when I select a portion of an image and hit Delete, it brings up the Fill dialogue. For example I have this picture (it's a Vauxhall Corsa). I want to use the Magic Wand to render anything that isn't part of the car transparent, so I start by highlighting some clouds with the Magic Wand like so: Click on images to see larger versions Now when I hit Delete, instead of that area of the picture being deleted as I would expect based on my experience with CS4, I get this dialogue: My questions are: Can this dialogue be used to achieve the functionality I want? If so, how? If not, how do I delete the background in CS6?
A while ago i bought an Android tablet, intending to use it as a web browser, ebook reader etc. I kinda liked the idea of being able to doodle on it for fun, so i bought a cheap stylus. But here's my problem - the stylus "skipps". Its hard to start a start a line with it, and when i finnally do, it doesnt go smoothly, it leaves really big gaps. Its making the stylus totally useless, cause i dont need it for the typical usage of the tablet. While testing the stylus on normal apps, i concluded that even tho sometimes it doesnt tap/drag the way i want to (enough to be very irritating!) it seems to work better than in SketchBook. The sketchBook and tablet work absolutely fine when handled with a finger (its very rare for the tablet to not notice a tap, and all lines i draw go smooth) - but drawing whith my hands aint exactly accurate or comfortable. Now, both the tablet were really cheap, the 4$ kind of stylus and 80$ tablet (Android 4.03, ~1Ghz, 512mb RAM) The tablet is [http://www.manta.com.pl/en/mid08/], the stylus is a noname from a company named 4World. I searched the net, but didnt find anyone having similar problems with mid 08 tablets (probably thats because its a local-market product and theres hardly anything about it on the web) In your experience, is this typical for low-price not graphic-design-intended equipment? Are there some typical solutions for such problems? I checked better equipment and i found this: Compatibility Compatible with all media tablets using capacitive touch technology Tested devices: iPad iPhone4(s) Samsung Galaxy Tab, 1st generation (limited compatibility, suitable for navigation purpose only)//seeems like this is the case for my tablet too (link: http://www.wacom.eu/index2.asp?pid=9221&spid=1&lang=en) so maybe this is a tablet issue, and buying a better stylus wont help, so i should just give up on drawing and doodling on my tablet? Im not asking for technical or hardware advice per se. I would just like to know is there a technical issue that needs to be fixed, or is it normal for low price equipment and the hardware guys cant help me anyhow. UPDATE Ive got my hands and stylus on a Nexus 7 tablet. Drawing worked perfectly fine with my stylus. Maybe not the cheapest equipment, but perfect for doodling and thumbnail work in Sketchook for Android on the bus. My problems must have had their root cause in the quality of my tablet. Ill probably get myself a better tablet
This seems simple but I need to insert a black-and-white smily face similiar to this image. Are there any glyphs like this on the Mac. I got this from Microsoft Word it automatically does it when you type :)
My graphic/web designer left me with an Adobe Illustrator file of my website. She said it would be easy to extract the images out as PNGs so I can use them in my HTML. But I can't figure this out too easily. The images seem to be many vector drawings. I can separate them from the surrounding art and select all the pieces. But then how do I save that selection as a PNG file? Btw.: I am using Adobe Illustrator CS6.
I'm collecting late medieval and early renaissance artwork for a personal online project. In doing that, I've accumulated a number of early-internet black and white images which I know originally come from full-color paintings -- because I've seen some of those paintings in the past. Neither Google Images nor Tineye seem to be able to find color versions of b&w images, nor are text-based searches including the artist's name or work's name (in those few cases I know either) working. I'd really appreciate any suggestions as to how to use the b&w versions I have to find the color originals! An example? Here's one. I've seen this online in the form of a subtly-textured but wildly colorful painting dozens of times in the past, but can't use this sketch version to find that again. Same with the others. The sketch itself is attributed to Heinrich Aldegrever, and titled 'Bildnis eines Jungen Mannes':
What tools are available for (easily) managing drawings similar to the software architectures published by Amazon, such as this one. I'm looking for something like OmniGraffle or Visio, but suitable for Isometric.
I'm a developer trying to learn more and practice better graphic design. One of the tools I love to use is Shaun Chapman's http://0to255.com as it easily let's you pick good variations on a base color for use in highlights, borders, etc. I've always been interested in how the range of colors that is output is created. From the about page on 0to255.com: Simply pick the color that you want to start with and 0to255 gives you a range of colors from black to white using an interval optimized for web design. Can anybody give me a clue what this interval would be or some guidelines? I'd love to know just for personal growth how these are calculated so I can get some practice picking good color variations manually instead of relying on a tool that I don't quite understand the inner workings of.
Let's say I have a layer that is originally white, but there's an effect that makes it gray. When I use the eyedropper tool on it, the color that's picked up is gray. How do I make the color that is picked up white, which is the original color of the layer sans effects? Is this even possible? Thanks!
I am using two fonts, STSong and STHeiti. I want to know if these fonts support ligatures, such as f + i becoming one character, or at least having two characters nearby. I made a ConTeXt document, but some words, such as "off" and "fish" are appearing like "of f" and "f ish". It is possible that my code is in error though. I also tried viewing the fonts in OpenOffice.org, but this seems an unreliable way to check, because OpenOffice.org seems to use font-substitution whenever I type a Unicode character with a font that does not contain that character. Is there a way to determine if these fonts contain ligatures?
I am looking for some tool that would allow me to export the all the artboards from Illustrator to PDF (can also be any common image file) that would automatically create: labels with colors used (preferably RGB) labels with font sizes, pointed to a given label when the font has been used
I've a label (which is a bunch of text and image objects) that's been tiled across a sheet manually. Is it possible to edit one copy of the label and have the changes apply to the rest of the copies? I've seen it done in CS5 by double clicking until it reaches a text layer/object but CS4 doesn't seem to behave the same way with double clicks.
The Roboto spec book shows "Black Small Caps" but it's not included in the font package. Fallback is using Black in uppercase - not ideal.
This is my basic layer setup: Textlayer Shape Background I want to mask the shape-layer so the parts where the text in the shape is transparent. Rasterizing the shape and deleting the text-part is not an option. Setting the color of the text to red is also not an option, because the background can be a picture. I just can't figure out how to do this. All tutorials for masks have different goals than mine. How can I do this?
I have a square image that I am looking to turn into a landscape sized image by adding solid black borders to the left and right of the image (optionally with a fade to white type gradient). I know this is a really simple thing to do, but I don't know where to start. I don't have any image software on my PC, other than Picasa. I tried looking at PicMonkey online but it didn't seem to do what I wanted. Can someone give me some simple steps to accomplish this?
Any designer worth their salt will talk about the importance of the grid, and rightfully so. However, as I've continued to practice my trade, I've found that the baseline grid in particular doesn't always seem practical to me. For example, I work with a lot of marketing sheets that have bulleted lists. My first inclination is to space everything evenly and keep the baseline grid, as so: But a lot of times, we come to the conclusion that even though the bullets separate the items, the even spacing between lines and between list items makes it harder to separate the points visually. So we end up with something like this: Each list item is better distinguished, but now the baseline grid is gone and the whole thing feels a little messier. On a smaller level, here's another example: Keeping a proper baseline grid makes a two-lined title look like separate things, but changing the spacing to correct that harms the flow (if some people only had a one-lined title). It's possible that I could just still be inexperienced enough to not know how to have my cake and eat it too here. But I suspect that this could be a scenario where design rules have to be flexible to address different priorities. But I'll ask regardless: Which is more important - maintaining a baseline grid in a situation like this, or compromising the grid to achieve gains in readability?
In InDesign CS5 I could draw a text box, drag it on page, and see purple lines that helped me align. Where did they go in CS6? I don't see them as I drag text boxes. Ideas?
In Photoshop I have a layer A which is placed onto another layer B using a multiple blend. The result looks good. Now, I wish to hide layer B so that layer A can be saved out as a semi-transparent PNG and used on a web page which has B as a background. The alignment may not be perfect, so I don't wish to include the background in this PNG. The problem, of course, is that as soon as I hide B layer A returns to it's original colours since there's no longer anything to multiply with. What I need is a way of fixing the result of the blend - the colour shifts that A was subjected to - such that I can remove B. Does anyone have an idea? Thanks, Tim
Could somebody tell me if this text is written in Comic sans MS? It looks like that. It is a quote from a famous Québec premier (René Lévesque) which is engraved on a monument in Québec city, Canada. http://www.flickr.com/photos/capitalenationale/3797412919/
What software are designers using to create great presentation slides? E.g. Adding (configurable) drop shadows on text Creating custom slide backgrounds, e.g radial gradients Adding noise or patterns to fills Do people create their slides in Photoshop? Is it not a huge pain?
I can't quite figure this one out. I am not copying a custom piece of work, I am copying something that is available in nature, bones. I am also not tracing it, I am drawing by hand using them as a reference for accuracy. So, is that considered copyright infringement? Does it depend on how similar my drawings are to the ones I visually copied? So if I look at a medical website or book and see a knee bone, then I draw one on paper or in a graphics editing tool by looking, with my eyes, at the referenced image, is that going to get me in trouble somehow? I mean, surely I don't have to go find my own skeleton to draw from... right??
I'm new to graphics, and had to make a small poster for a competition. I created it in Inkscape, but found out they need a .ai file. I tried opening the SVG in Illustrator, and it just does not look the same. I don't know how I can fix this! Here's what it looks like in Inkscape: And in Illustrator: I know nothing about Illustrator, so I don't know if there is a simple fix for this. For reference, here is the file as well in SVG format. Thanks, I really appreciate your help!
I am using Photoshop CS5 and am encountering an odd issue: I have simply layer A sitting on top of layer B. When I select layer B, layer A becomes invisible. The visable/non-visable icon (the eye) on the layers tab is not toggled, nor are the positions of the layers switching (they arnt covering each other anyway). There are no filters set for either layer. Simply, when layer A is not selected, it goes invisible. This is reversible if I click on the area where layer A should be - it then returns. Tried restarting PS but it still occurs. Does anyone know if there is a setting to stop this? Thanks
I'm on Adobe Creative Cloud, so I have the latest InDesign, and I'm attempting to design a poster for my choir's next concert. Traditionally, I've done this in Photoshop, in two separate files, however I've recently started using InDesign after converting to it to create wedding albums through Blurb. I've created an A4 document, and created an alternate-layout for it in A5. I've then lined them up side-by-side, and I've added a black frame to the A4 page, to act as the black background for my page (by the way, feel free to advise on better ways to do this). My assumption is that I've failed to understand how this works, as I was hoping that I'd magically get a black frame on the A5 version, and that I could use liquid layout to get this to automatically scale (along with all other elements), in order to create the two versions simultaneously. All help/advice would be greatly appreciated!
It is to be used for background on a website. I like it exactly the way it is except that the image quality is not good enough. Looking for quality that will look good on a Retina screen. Must be able to license to use it (free or paid) for a commercial website. I did of course already search Flickr, Google and some stock image sites. Primarily searched for "wooden floor", "wooden texture" and "wooden background". Anyone knows where to find a high resolution one like it? Like one commenter mentioned, the image shown has been copied three times which is OK for the new image too - that way I can minimize the filesize the users browser has to download through the CSS background repeat-x method. UPDATE: Found what I needed - please see my own answer below.
How does one algorithmically calculate a set of N colors that are both contrasting and aesthetically pleasing? For example, we want to plot an unknown number of lines on a graph that still looks good. I'm not certain on how to quantify aesthetically pleasing, but not clashing with a given palette might be a starting point (e.g the graph borders and an associated logo are Colors A, B, and C).
The standard mac shortcut (Command+?) for opening the menu item search field doesn't work. As Beibei mentioned - This is about cueing the cursor to the "Search" box of the help menu, not invoking the Adobe help system.
Is there a way to force Photostop to never put anything on a sub-pixel or size anything to a sub pixel level? I'll move layers around or resize them and I'm always getting the positions at 234.2 or 340.5 and this is not a good thing when doing game art. I need stuff to be pixel perfect. I try snapping everything to a grid, but this doesn't help in all cases. It seems once something is at 340.5, snapping to the grid never gets rid of the fraction. I'm constantly forced to go in and hand edit all the value. I'm using CS3, but would happily upgrade to CS6 if this was fixed.
In Adobe Illustrator there is the feature of using 'Outline View'. It shows you the wireframes of your objects so you can see that they are properly aligned. When I use 'Pixel Preview' I can see what the result is going to be if I export it to bitmap. So when a line of 1 px of width is not positioned at an exact pixel, there will be a blurry line. I use the checkbox 'Align to pixel grid' in the Transform panel to repair this. But, here comes my surprise, when I change to 'Outline View' my lines are not properly aligned anymore. How can I use this function without messing up the outline view in Adobe Illustrator??
I'm in the process of designing a program invite and thought I could experiment something similar to the London Olympics ticket. I am more interested in knowing how I can go about designing the blue shapes (polygons and triangles) part. Is it just different blue shapes with gradients stacked against each other? Are there any other effects to be added to get similar desired results? (larger version linked)
How do I change a google map into something similar to the map in the 1st poster? How do I change it to blue and also include shadows? Please help! Regards, sammydude
Could some experienced graphic designer suggest what tools to use- what software, to do this- make a picture of some money bills, which are curved and floating around randomly, with some background texture- golden coins maybe. Can you do this with Adobe Photoshop Elements (the cheaper version of Adobe Photoshop)?
I'm a designer, not a marketer, and not a writer (at least not professionally). A lot of the work I do involves working with material in a field that can be above my head. Because of that, I'm content to take the text that's given to me and do what I can to make it look great on the page – tighten the kerning to get an orphan on the previous line, adjust size and leading to get it all on the page, play with gutter widths, and so on. But sometimes, it's tough to avoid the rivers or repetitive words or even orphans sometimes without altering the copy itself. When it's my work I have no trouble doing this, but when it's someone else's work (particularly when they know more than I do and might care less about such issues as I do), it's harder to make a case to change wording simply because it doesn't look ideal when on the page. Is it a designer's place to try to alter wording on the mere basis that it doesn't look quite right on the page? With apologies to David Carson fans, I believe that form follows function, not the other way around, so the answer would seem to be no. But tweaking just a few things can often make a big difference! As sort of a side question, would altering text thus be a last resort? I do not like to hyphenate anything, but would it be better to do so than alter copy?
There is a quote that "bad design never killed anyone," but I know that what we do is less trivial than that. What designs have you seen cause real change or have a real influence? Specific context behind the question: Lord willing, I'll be giving a presentation to my wife's school for Career Day this week. I want to talk about what design is (which could be another question here, I might post later), but since I learn by example, I want to give some examples about how design makes a difference. To answer the "what have you tried" question: One of my favorite examples is the butterfly ballot from the USA's 2000 election...a poor ballot design probably shifted the course of my country for at least four years. but that's probably a little too partisan. Partisan concerns also knock out the comparison of health care charts - a great conversation piece about how design can be used to streamline or obfuscate data. I love propaganda design and respect its unique place in history, but kids might not connect with that. I could talk about the iPod and iPhone, but some of that drifts into industrial design and I think that's a bit tired of an example anyways. I'm thinking about comparing two pieces of paper, one that has a bad font, tight leading and kerning, and is right-aligned, and one that is set a little more properly, and asking them to compare. But that's just a boring sheet of paper.
I’m trying to take a friend’s pencil-and-paper design and recreate it in Illustrator for use in a poster we are creating together. She’s proficient (away from the computer) and it’s my job to get her ideas into the computer. But sadly I’m a novice at Illustrator (and Photoshop), though I’ve been using Fireworks intermittently for years. I’m using CS5 (Illustrator 15.0.2, Photoshop 12.0.4) on Windows 8 Enterprise RTM, and a Wacom intuos 4. Here’s a fragment of the scan of the artwork I am trying to recreate (note that the hard edge is an artefact of my cropping the scan, not the artwork itself). And here are a few of my attempts to recreate it using the brushes in Illustrator. As you can see the results look nothing like the original :-( That leaves me with three questions, though the first is the one I most need help with. Question 1 Can anyone explain the steps I’d need to take to recreate in Illustrator the pencil hatching from the original paper based artwork, or point me to a comprehensive tutorial covering the required techniques? This seems to be straightforward in other answers (e.g. Scott's answer here) but is not working for me. Question 2 Perhaps I should instead abandon trying to recreate the pencil stroke hatching with an Illustrator brush and use Live Trace? I’ve not done that partly because I want to understand how to do it as a brush, and partly as I would not then have as much flexibility in creating different foreground text and background hatching combinations. Should I swap to Live Trace? Question 3 Should I give up on vectors and try recreating the artwork in Photoshop? (E.g. as Ryan suggests here.) (N.B. I've also posted this question to the Adobe Forums here. I hope such cross-posting is OK.)
I love the new open source font by Adobe, Source Sans Pro. But I am not sure what will happen if I use the font in a website, and the font isn't installed on the visitor's machine?
I have just learned (thanks to tutorial at http://buttner-jenkins.blogspot.com/2010/04/gimp-tut-text-along-path.html) how to create a text along path. When I followed these instructions, though, using Nimbus Roman No9 Latin, to render my text in an arc, the text ended up with jaggies at all of the edges. I'm wondering if there's some kind of automated way to smooth away these jaggies. Thanks.
http://doityourself.edublogs.org/files/2008/10/club-med-illusion-ad.jpg I'm trying to achieve the same effect, but I can't even get close to what I need. What I basically need is to merge face/body in to the object in a way that it won't stand out, yet would be recognisable. If someone could explain, give a tip or just link me something, that would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. Andrew.
I have 4 layers (A, B, C, D) which I wish to blend by the following formula (A xor B) plus (C xor D). Is it possible to accomplish this in Photoshop? I am a newbie and found that layer can only control it's blending with all underlying ones.

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