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We have a professionally designed floor plan in PDF form for an event we are running currently. It is similar to a CAD drawing. We have booths (rectangular squares) drawn on it. I have a colleague who is in the process of building a phone app and possibly a web app both of which we would like to contain an interactive floor plan which will ultimately be an image with a big image map drawn over it in HTML. To achieve this he needs the x/y coordinates of each booth or x1/y1 and x2/y2. I am a web dev by trade so please bear with me! Is there a way to extract this data programmatically using Illustrator/Photoshop? I know you can write scripts to run in both but I would have no idea where to start. He could do this manually but the floor plans change frequently hence we would need a quick/automatic way of doing this.
Is there a type of fold for one-sheet flyers where the last thing a reader reaches while working through it in a natural way is a full-page spread, and where sections of that full page spread are not seen before it is reached? Trying to think about how that could work is giving me a headache... and I'm starting to run out of paper to test-fold :) The closest I've found so far is (from the book Forms Folds and Sizes) the '6 page barrel fold'. It gives everything except the very back panel before reaching the centrefold, which is close enough, but 1/3 of the centrefold becomes visible in isolation after the first opening. The problem is that one of the brown centrefold panels is shown on its own at step 2 separated from the others - I'm hoping for a fold where the whole centrefold is introduced as one unit, as late as possible in the reader's progression through the folds. Is this possible? Taking a classic 'Closed gate' fold (which introduces the centrefold too early)... ...and turning it around would theoretically solve the problem... ...but unfortunately, in some very unscientific testing on colleagues, I find that while about 50-60% read through like that, about 20-25% read it like this... ...and about 20-25% read it like this: ...which would result in content being read out of sequence and the natural flow being broken. How they read these seemed to hinge on how much the leaflet happened to fall open while they turned it over in their hands. Edit-- The reason why reading order is key is that the content is a series of information panels, which together build up a complete picture, and go progressively deeper into a topic. So, if they are read out of sequence, it might not be obviously wrong to a reader as panels cover separate topics, but it would make less sense because the reader will be trying to understand a detailed topic before they've understood more basic foundational info. If that's hard to visualise, imagine something like the structure used in The Oatmeal, where a series of points are made that are factually independent, but together progressively flesh out an overall picture. Now imagine you were producing a leaflet version - you don't want to distract from the flow of the content, and you want to be sure it's read in the right order else the message can be weakened or muddied. And the reason the centrefold needs to be last or nearly last is, that's how the content is - the final point is a difficult multi-faceted point that needs the extra space and needs the prior background to have been already read.
I am working on redesigning my website and iterating through fivesecondtests. The overall feedback is improving but no matter what I change, several people have mentionned that my designs look "dated". "Not modern". "Use modern fonts". What are "modern fonts"? Technically, Calibri, Cambria, etc. are "modern fonts", but I hardly ever see those online. What fonts are considered "modern" in the context of web design? What are the characteristics of a "modern design"? Conversely what are the tell tale signs of a "dated" design? For reference, here is the latest iteration of my design. Does it still look "dated"? If so, what elements give that impression? I think I am starting to get a better idea of what "modern web design" is: No or light gradients Sans serif typefaces Light drop shadows Good page hierarchy / directing visitor's attention Is there anything else that makes a design look "modern"? I have implemented the most of the recommendations in the answers, and I feel it has improved the design a lot. (Never mind the logo - will figure that one out later) Am I still stuck in the past? Or am I finally getting somewhere? Implementing all recommendations, this is what I get: It's obviously much better, but is it up to modern standards yet? If not, can it get there without changing massively the layout? The learning process never ends, does it? Assume that the central menu has a lava effect and that hopefully I can get a decent photo of myself shot to replace that one. Looking at the various versions, I can see the design improving by leaps and bounds. Not sure how much further it needs to improve to reach professional standards, but it's certainly moving in the right direction. Thanks a lot to all of you. I am impressed by the quality of the advice and how specific and actionable most recommendations have been so far.
In PowerPoint, Visio, and many other programs, there's a "rectangle selection" mode which allows selecting a group of objects by drawing a rectangle with the mouse. All objects which are fully contained within that rectangle are included in the selection. Objects which are not fully contained within the rectangle are not selected. Does Photoshop CS6 have a similar feature for selecting a group of vector shapes spread across multiple shape layers? I know how to use the Direct Selection tool to select a single vector shape, but not how to select multiple shapes based on their position on the page. I tried Googling on "cs6 multi-select shapes" and many other similar queries and got nothing useful, but I'm sure there's an easy solution that I've overlooked.
Here are a few screenshots of a web-based crisis mapping software, basically built for both governors and people. The design is somehow combined by ideas from different people, so we are interested to know your ideas, pros and cons of the design choices made there. What are the pros and cons of the chosen Color Scheme and the Layout? Please consider that at the design goals, it should looks clear and nice yet informative for decision makers, also still nice and easy to explore for a regular person.
Having finally signed up to creative cloud, which seems incredibly good value, I started to wander how the artwork Adobe use to promote their products is actually made... Its quite 3D, and looks very slick (see http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:4TQFdMFdN40J:www.adobe.com/uk/products/creativesuite.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk) I am specifically referring to the 3D "Rods" that seem to be bursting out from a point. Would I be correct in thinking that (ironically) these are not made in any of the creative suite applications? I know PS and AI have basic 3D capability, but these look to be beyond those capabilities to me....
I was recently working on a website design and I naturally based my work on the content supplied by my customer. I knew from the beginning that the site will be accessible in different languages but didn't think it would be a big issue. Finally, it appears that while the majority of the site looks OK in other languages (like longer paragraphs of text, or menu items), some parts are not displaying well at all. This is due to the different length of words/phrases between the different translations. I would like to know how you generally handle such cases. Is using different font sizes a viable option? What can be done early in the project to avoid such problems?
When i use the straighten of PS, i cant find a way to just get it to straighten one layer at a time, itseems to straighten the entire canvas, is there a way i can get it to work on just one layer ? just to clarify by the straighten tool i mean draw a line with the ruler and then click straighten in the toolbar allong the top. Im using cs5 but its a pretty common feature so im sure its similar in most versions.
I'm about to branch off into the freelance world. I'm starting an LLC and I'd like some input on what I should title myself as the owner. For example "creative specialist" or "creative technician" or something like that. My services would be: Website design / development Graphic design: icon design, templates, web graphics, business cards / brochures / letterheads / etc. Writing: content writing/copywriting, technical writing, editing / proofreading / copyediting Photography, photo editing Does anybody have any ideas on some general terms that would apply to this type of business?
I am going crazy trying to figure out this very simple thing. I want a drawing tool (like pen or pencil or paintbrush) that can just paint pixels directly as pixels. Thus if the size of the tip is 1px, and I click once, I get a 1px square. If I click and drag 5px, I get a 1px x 5px line. No smearing, no vectors, no curve fitting or stylizing or texturizing or anything like that. How do I do it?
How can the above shape be created in Photoshop? It is the shape of an anvil, a logo commonly used by universities.
Does anyone know a good vector drawing application? I tried Inkscape, but it is not a real vector design app. Technically it's an SVG editor, and as such doesn't support anything that SVG doesn't support. I'm missing these features in Inkscape/SVG (and I don't care about SVG anyway, I just want to draw on screen/paper, not web): Support for multiple pages*, so I can design and print booklets / practice sheets / etc. Center a text in any shape/group that doesn't stray or stretch when the shape size is changed. Word-wrap is required. (Read carefully -- this is impossible to do with Text-flow!) Can easily create arrows with any size arrowhead* and any color*. Have 'anchors' on shapes so other shapes (typically lines) move when the shape in question is moved/scaled. *(known Inkscape bug/shortcoming with very awkward workaround) Text-in-shape Example: Anchors Example:
Whenever I add a color overlay layer style to an object in photoshop, it goes over top of any gradient overlay I have. Is there any way to change this order?
this seems to be a CS6 bug to me - i couldn't find any solution yet: when resizing an image, i'm getting a half-transparent 1px border around it. very annoying :( i already tried flattening before resizing - still the same problem. any idea how to avoid this? thanks
How can i reverse Gif image with out affecting animation of the image and save it. I used Flip Tool and reversed image then after save it. Then i lost the animation effect of the image.
When I File > Export using Artboards from Illustrator the (OSX)file dialogue is always pointing at the directory where the Illustrator document is located. If I need to export to a different directory I have to navigate through the filesystem to find it. The next time I export Illustrator has forgotten this directory and I have to do this all over again. When I am exporting, previewing a webpage that uses the artwork, tweaking and re-exporting repeatedly this is a massive speed bump. I'm sure the answer is painfully simple but what is it?
I have to slice website design to HTML/CSS. Main navigation menu looks like below: I am beginner webdeveloper and I don't know how to slice this design into compatible and cross-browser code. How these parallelogram shaped items should be sliced? There are also hover and selected states so I would probably use CSS sprites for that, but main problem for me are these parallelograms Any help and advice is much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
I have written a word using a fat font like Impact, and I have an image of roses. Instead of adding a color to this word, I want to "color" it in Inkscape using my roses image.
Illustrator has the 'Transform Each' dialog, but it only allows you to scale multiple objects by specifying a percentage. Is there any way to specify the size in pixels? More specifically, imagine I have 10 rectangles on my canvas, and I want them all to be of a specific height. The bar order and position on the canvas matters, so I can't do the 'vertical align to top and then resize group height' trick - they need to be resized in place.
The following link: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/windows-server/buy.aspx and possibly all other links in MS site does not render text smoothly in Chrome and Firefox. Why so? IE7: Firefox 16.0.1: Chrome 22.0.1229.94 m:
In Adobe Photoshop I am able to select multiple layers at once with Shift+Click. How can I do that in GIMP?
I'm trying to supply the printer with a 2-page saddle up print job - which I'm assuming is a 2 page spread stapled in the middle and folded. The document is a 22 page booklet, The 1st page is the cover and the 22nd page is the back of the booklet. My problem is there is blank pages on page 1 and 4 - I do not understand why this is happening?
I'm stuck with this little thing, which should be extremely easy but I simply cannot achieve it the way I want it. Working with Photoshop CS5, I have a PSD with several layers, most of them being text layers with pattern style applied on them. One of this text layer needs a black pattern but currently uses a white one and as I'm kinda lazy, I thought I could just use the "negative" adjustment on Photoshop instead of spending some time making the proper pattern. So I went this way : I duplicated the layer. I made a new adjustment layer and chose "negative". I ticked "Clipping mask" so that the "negative" isn't applied to all my layers. And... it doesn't work at all. Like nothing changes. I tried switching the mask color (alt-click on the clipped mask) but nothing either. What am I missing here ?
I have some color swatches from a local car dealer that are about 8.5" by 11" and the paint samples are metallics. Is there a way to scan these metallic color paint samples sheets, then use a large sample brush to get the metallic "texture" and be able to add it to my color swatches? That way if I want to do a metallic blue, red, silver, green, or whatever label background fill... I can use the bucket fill or maybe save it as a brush or texture? Using CS4 Photoshop.
I thought I read somewhere that there was a way to adjust the brush opacity interactively in CS6 (13) in the same way you adjust brush size and hardness (ie: Alt+Right-click and drag). In fact, the CS6 UI seems to support this, because it now shows a readout for Size, Hardness AND Opacity. Of course, you can adjust brush opacity with the slider, and by typing the number directly on the keyboard, and in Prefs you can disable Hardness vertical HUD movement which then replaces it with Opacity. But I want all three axes. Anyone know the trick? workaround? prayer?
Every once in awhile I make forms (applications and whatnot) in InDesign, and, as it often is with ID, there is more than one way to get it done. I have a few techniques that I use, but I often float from one to another without being sure which is the best. And, as I often find on sites like these, I don't have all of the answers! I'm sure people here do form design; what do you find to be the best way? I'm thinking about ease of doing in the first place, ease of aligning lines to each other and to margins, ease of editing later, ease of Acrobat making it fillable, and perhaps semantic considerations? Some of my techniques are: Drawing a straight line, drawing a line then pasting it inline into the text frame, underscores, underlines (with tabs, non-breaking spaces, alignment tricks), table cells.
In working on a redesigned website for my university program I feel like I've got a pretty solid foundation. The purpose of the website is to be both informational but, also, to be "fun" and "inviting." So, we have used some Google Web Fonts for typography and we've done some work with headings, line hight, and line length. Now, we would like to add some visual elements to make the pages more attractive but that don't detract from the content. What are some effective methods for adding visual interest? One suggestion was a "water mark" type image but I have issues with that because it could cause problems with older browsers.
I am sorry about asking such a newbie question but I am wondering if Adobe Indesign has any easy method of making the box that is on the top of the page that I posted below (With the numbers on top and bottom and text inside of it). I have to make a page similar to this.
I just installed Creative Suite 6 on my computer. I was working on some artwork for a client in Illustrator and having a hard time getting the right colors. I noticed they were all very dull. So I did some testing, and sure enough, Illustrator is not displaying my colors correctly. The screenshot below shows the color that I picked (bright neon green) and the square to the right is how it is displaying. I tried the same thing in Photoshop and it works just fine. What's going on here? I never experienced anything like this in CS3. Is there some sort of setup that I need to do with my colors? Thanks. Screenshot:
I have a rather long list of global brands (about 2000) for which I would like to download a brand logo. I was wondering if there is a way to automate this process, since I know that this list will get longer in the future. I am thinking about something along the lines of a Web service that I could call to get the logo of a given brand, or at least a large archive of logos that I can download. So far the only solution I have found involves manually searching for each brand on one of the sites hosting brand logos: brandsoftheworld.com, logotypes101.com, gmkfreelogos.com. But none of them provide any form of "bulk download" option.
I am trying to replicate the gold bevel effect used on Jay-Z's "Watch the Throne" album (see pic) in Photoshop. Any ideas?
When one try to make/publish a photo album the most common layout is the one with one photo per page. What other layouts are proven to be successful, especially considering that we intent to print on some pages small photo reports of 3-6 photos linked between them. PS: "photo report" = several photos linked together which try to tell a short story
Got two images, one of an old sheet of paper with jagged edges. The other is a photo of beach. How can I merge them together, so that the beach image will take the shape of the other picture, i.e. with jagged edges? I got indesign cs5.5, illustrator cs5. The photoshop I got is old 2003 version. Can I use any of these?
Does anyone know of a Photoshop action, or set of actions to produce a defuse, bump, normal and reflection map for use in 3d rendering software? It seems like quite a simple thing and I have searched google but couldn't seem to find one. I'd be realy surprised if one didn't exist.
The text "We are Mozilla" on this page: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/ seems to have something of a "white" drop shadow effect that makes it seem embedded onto the page, somewhat. How can we recreate that effect in GIMP/inkscape preferably? Even photoshop/illustrator technique would do.
I'm confused on how to use the header tags properly so, I need help for this. Since, it is a very important part of web development.
How do you exactly create a very responsive web design? Do you create application for your website to be responsive when using mobile and/or tablets?
How can I take a screenshot of a web page on a MacBook Pro with Retina Display (rMBP) that: Is at a reproducible size Looks sharp on Retina displays Without any browser chrome / accouterments showing Without having to do any manual cropping or other post-production In the past I've used Awesome Screenshot, but that browser extension has unfortunately fallen out of date. On my rMBP, it completely fouls up under Safari and captures low res shots in Google Chrome. (As of now Awesome Screenshot is at v. 1.3.7 for Safari and 3.3.7 for Chrome.) I ask because I have to take several shots, and update them periodically, so I need a straightforward workflow.
We have have facing pages with a border ether side, however our printer wants it in single pages. When we change it to single pages for pdf printing, we lose our alternating borders. (Border on the left for the left hand page, and right for the right hand). Am I doing this wrong? any help would be much appriciated
Is there an utility for converting all black-white and grayscale images from certain folder to the same images with adjusted alpha channel? For example, for pixel (r:50, g:50, b:50, a:0) I would like to get (r:50, g:50, b:50, a:50) and (r:50, g:50, b:50, a:205) (inverse). Of course, this conversion is suitable only for image formats with alpha channel support (not JPG). Or how can I do it with photoshop? Background: I am a programmer and I am finding a way to do it without coding if it's possible.
Is it possible to pick only black-white and grayscale images for photoshop (or another graphical program) batch-processing, even if they are have colored mode (24 or 32 bit). Thus, all pixels bypass is required. I need in it for conversion of every image to same image with adjust alpha channel. See my another question for detail.
How could I add gradients along an object/path (not following the path, but using it as a base, like inner glow) ? Sample:
I'm very new at graphic design, so my apologies if this is a very basic question :) I have access to Adobe Photoshop CS 5.1. I have a series of grids that are currently flat on the 2d cartesian plane, and I actually have 2 layers (not in the photoshop sense, 2 actual layers) of grids to display. So, to display them, I want to "tilt" them in all 3 dimensions, so that I can illustrate relationships between them. Hopefully this makes sense. My question is very simple: how! I am having a tough time figuring out how to do this while keeping it clean. Thanks in advance!
I need to create a two-color poster for my choir's Christmas concert. I'm choosing the colors red and gold, and will liaise with the printer when it comes to printing about what specifically they will be to work best. While I'm fine with a nice big, red background, and with adding gold text, I'm really struggling with how to add vectors with transparent background and faded foreground. I have a nice EPS stock image I bought a while ago with some musical notes on, but it's on a cream background with dark-brown staff-lines and musical notes. I've managed to fiddle with it in various ways in Photoshop (which I know pretty well) and Illustrator (which I don't know at all), but I cannot work out how to do it. What I'd love to do is just place a file in my InDesign document, and then change the stroke/fill color and the transparency. All advice would be greatly appreciated! I have the full Creative Cloud, so can work with most Adobe apps, if required.
I've created a rectangle, and I want to cut some text out of it, so that the text will appear as the background pattern. I expected to be able to achieve this by selecting the rectangle and the text, using Pathfinder > Minus Front - however this hasn't worked. I've tried searching for the solution everywhere and can't find an answer. Can anyone tell me where I'm going wrong? How do I cut out / minus / subtract text from a shape / object in Adobe Illustrator?
I have a set of images of up to 20mb each, and I want to reduce the file size without losing quality. How can I do it?
I like to make a moving blur on a picture using GIMP (on Ubuntu). What kind of effects should I use? I already use blur but it doesn't give the moving blur. Note: I'm beginner in graphic design
I have a question similar to “Writing text with character variations”: I would like to create a casual hand-written-style font, that reproduces the natural variety between occurrences of the same glyph that one find in handwritten text. Contextual alternatives are good, but from what I understand they are mostly appropriate for letters linking together than for a script where all letters are separated by whitespace. One of the answers to the above-linked question says (emphasis is mine): While you'd normally have only a few letters with a contextual alternate, it's theoretically possible to have several forms per letter. But I don't believe you can really randomise their appearance, only cycle through them (so, if you had three forms of 'a', they'd be used in sequence and start repeating in 'the black cat sat on the mat') Well, it doesn’t seem to be true, because I found some mentions of an OpenType feature called randomize, which can apparently do that. For example, on this TeX package webpage: Knuth’s original fonts generated different shapes at random. This isn't actually possible in an OpenType font; rather, the font contains several variants of each glyph, and uses the OpenType randomize function to select a variant for each invocation. So: is there a mechanism for random selection of glyph variants in OpenType, and how does it work? A link to adequate online documentation or quote from the spec would be invaluable. Also: do you think this goal makes sense, i.e. it would improve the quality of the typeset text much to include multiple randomly-select glyph variants?
What I need: A 3000px by 1340px PNG that vertically graduates from 100% opacity black to 0% opacity black. My problem: Banding occurs. Example: What I've tried: Virtually every solution to be found online. I've tried adding noise, blurs, installing actions that are supposed to work but don't, changing the the color and dither settings, converting from 16 bit to 8 bit and NONE of these solutions work for me. Note: I'm already aware of this question: Is it really impossible to have gradient without banding? My question: Would anyone be kind enough to confirm that they can actually create what I've described and tell me how to achieve it? Even a link to a non-Photoshop solution will work e.g. an online gradient generator, Illustrator, Fireworks.
Many standard computer fonts don’t have text (aka “old-style”, "hanging") figures, like these: Also, basic software like Microsoft Office don’t use them by default, even when selecting a font that actually includes them. So, my own practice is: I tend to use them in running text, if only because it gives somewhat of a more “distinguished” look I don’t use them in tables or large batches of numbers (like, scientific numbers with units) But I wonder: what is the typical advice regarding text vs. lining figures?
I've created an icon in Illustrator for an iPhone app. When the icon is in the size for the iPhone, parts of the graphic fuzzy. How can I improve the details on the icon? My icon is a clock, and it looks fine except for the hands.
What does it mean and how do I get a darker shade of a given color. For example if I have the color R = 53, G = 140, B = 205 or H = 204, S = 74, B = 80, or #358CCD What value do I change in Adobe Illustrator CS5 or Above Photoshop so that I get a more darker/solid/bold look of the same color?
What is a service where I can perform side by side comparison of all fonts? Not just fonts on my computer, as most services seem to offer.
In the project I am working on, I need to draw a line across the image and split all paths below that in Inkscape. I know Illustrator has Object > Path > Divide Objects Below. Does Inkscape have a version of this command?
An institution I know has chosen the following colors for its theme: It is used as a banner at bottom of web pages, and the first green is used as the main “institutional” color. I wonder: does that color palette belong to some well-know “category”, or is there any evident principle that lead to its choice? I know there are recommended ways to pick three or four colors (opposing or related hues; triads and tetrads; that sort of stuff), but this doesn't seem to be the case here. How do you pick six colors? Is there any other systematic ways to do so?
I’m trying to come up with a logo for a small venture of mine, and I was wondering: at what sizes are logos typically displayed? I mean, I know in theory branding artwork should be redesigned for every display size: this is exemplified, in an extreme case, by the design of favicons. However, there is a strong incentive to use the exact same logo at various sizes, if only to reinforce the power of the brand. So, given the uses of a logo I can think of the top of my head (website, business cards, letterhead), what sizes does a logo need to be displayed at? In other words, can I cover them all (except for the favicon case above) with a single logo, or would you need (in general) many logotypes for various resolutions.
Imagine a logo that uses only a few characters from a font… or more exactly, the vector outlines of a few characters (between 2 and 4) from a font. What are the licensing requirements for commercial use of such a work? This differs from the more general case in that I'm not really using it for typesetting text, but rather the outlines of a few characters. But, legally speaking, is that in any way different?
I am specially preparing some PDFs for use on E-ink devices. I have noticed that the appearance of the text on these screens is not exactly the same as the appearance on a book, or the appearance on a computer screen. Are there any strategies for selecting fonts which will appear good and improve readability on these devices? If I must select a font from a specific collection, what features should I look for in that font that indicates that it will be most suitable for use on E-ink? Are there any special fonts specifically designed for use on such displays? Is there any research showing that any particular font provides the best or improved readability on E-ink?
So I have this PSD with several transparent layers. As I need to hand out the file for a professional printing, I export it through Photoshop (CS5) using the usual PDF/X-4:2008 PDF 1.4 profile to retain the transparency. But the written PDF doesn't have any transparency : when I open it under Adobe Reader (with the transparency rendering option set to on), it has a white background when I open it under Photoshop, it also has that white background which means the transparency is not kept So I guess there's something wrong with the layers as the profile used is the correct one, but I don't know what. Any hint ?
I'm experiencing a very weird problem in Illustrator with a Pantone color. I have a document open with a logo in it that is Pantone 280 C, blue. I copy the logo into a new Illustrator document and it looks purple. But they're both Pantone 280 C. I ran a bunch of tests, and here's what I know: Both colors are Pantone 280 C. But the CMYK builds are different. Very odd. If I draw a shape in each of the documents and fill it with Pantone 280 C, one is blue and the other is purple. The Pantone swatches themselves look different. Both documents are in CMYK. Why are the colors different?
What font size and family is recommended for a web site's content to make it more readable for the readers or visitors?
It took me a lot of time to create a graphic in GIMP, and now I need to make some variations of the same graphic that actually only require the change of the FG color twice in the process. The GIMP "raw" files are created as XCF. If I look inside (using Emacs), while it's a binary file, I can distinctly see a text command, like (fgcolor (color-rgba 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 1.000000)) It would appear to me that GIMP stores - in its own binary format - a list of commands that it "replays" when the XCF is opened(?). Maybe not - anyway my point is to have an editable list of "commands" (or similar) that could be text-editable, this way I would just change the two FG lines and a copy of the file to get the variations. I need to repeat that process 10+ times, and such a text approach - Perl scriptable for instance - would save a lot of time. Is it possible? Are there other ways to do this that do not require to open the XCF and repeat the whole long process while changing only the FG?
I've made a webpage with an image next to text, set as the same color I thought I had used for the image. However when I looked at the webpage on Safari (on Mac) I noticed that the actual color of the text and image were different (this was not the case in Chrome or Firefox). I have since read about how you should save web images using the sRGB color scheme. However I need the text color (set to a HEX value by CSS) to be exactly the same as the actual image color displayed. However when choosing the color for the image I seem only to see the full range - i.e. not just the sRGB colors that are actually available to me. It then converts the color to the equivalent/available sRGB color. Is there anyway in Photoshop (or Pixelmator) to only use sRGB safe colors in the color palette?
I'm looking for an experienced mobile UI designer to lead the vision and design for our iphone and android applications. What characteristics, experience or requirements would a mid-to-senior level mobile app UI designer have to have?
In my InDesign document, figure captions are bold when they appear in the body of the document, and non-bold when they appear in the list of figures. But when I need to italicize text in a figure caption, this results in bold text in the list of figures. How can I have bold italic text in the figure caption and non-bold italic text in the list of figures? Here's my setup: InDesign CS5 The paragraph style for figure captions sets the font style to bold The list of figures is an automatically-generated table of contents. The paragraph style for TOC entries has a font style of regular. Styles I'm using Paragraph styles Figure Caption: Font family: Helvetica. Font style: Bold. List of Figures: Font family: Helvetica. Font style: Regular. Character styles Oblique: Font style: Oblique. Bold + Oblique: Font style: Bold Oblique. Except where I state otherwise, text uses a character style of [None]. Desired result This is what I want to have: Caption: Figure 7. Excerpt from Routes I Know List of figures: Figure 7. Excerpt from Routes I Know..................31 First Try I used the Oblique character style to italicize the text in the caption. So the Figure Caption paragraph style makes the text bold, and the Oblique character style makes (part of) the text italic. The resulting text is italic, but not bold. Caption: Figure 7. Excerpt from Routes I Know List of figures: Figure 7. Excerpt from Routes I Know..................31 Second try I used the Bold + Oblique character style on the text in the caption. Both the bold and italic apply to the list of figures. Caption: Figure 7. Excerpt from Routes I Know List of figures: Figure 7. Excerpt from Routes I Know..................31 EDIT: Added more info about the paragraph styles I'm using
I seem to recall an anecdote on how one branch of the British government had designed a way to circulate seemingly identical for-your-eyes-only documents to a small circle of high-level collaborators, while ensuring the possibility to identify them if the document leaked. The story was that they used tiny variations in typography to make differentiable documents that seemed identical to the naked eye. So, my question is: Is that feasible? Does that involve modification of font outlines, or kerning, or something else? Is that done in the font itself, or in the typographic engine?
I remember there used to be a folder I could just put fonts in and they would work for Adobe InDesign. I thought it was a folder called fonts in the same directory the InDesign document was. I tried that for an Illustrator file. I created a folder next to the Illustrator file called fonts and put my fonts in there. But Illustrator doesn't see the fonts. I don't want to install the fonts on the system. Is there a simple folder I can put fonts into? Ideally the folder is next to the Illustrator file itself so that I can simply zip up the file and fonts folder and send it to people.
I'm having a heck of a time getting a straight answer for this. Hope somebody here can help! If I'm a small commercial company that's creating an Android application for a paid service, what sort of license do I need to buy to legally use Helvetica Neue (and a couple other variations of Helvetica)? Where do I buy it? Edit: I got the following response when inquiring about purchasing: Thank you for the inquiry. We have a special license for mobile developers that enables them to distribute fonts in a title for two years of the title for a paid-up license fee. We can provide you with a license to distribute the Helvetica Neue regular, medium, light, bold and Italic fonts with unlimited units of a single application title only on the Android platform for $3,250. This is fee for two year distribution of the font in that title. There are no unit reporting requirements under this license. If you also want to include the iOS platform the license fee would be $3,750 instead of $3,250. The license fees include warranty and indemnification from Monotype Imaging. Please let me know if you have any questions or if you would like to proceed with a license. We look forward to working with you.
What are some of the rules and guidelines needed to design a Windows 8 "Metro" style website template? I notice using blocks is one of these guidelines. I'm also noting something about the colors, but not being a designer myself, I'm not sure what the guidelines for the color scheme usage is. As per the layout of the content, is there something that is particularly important? In all, I think the whole Metro approach looks really nice, and I'm hoping to mimic that style in a website template.
I have a lot of PSD files in many random directories. Sometime I need to view many files quickly without loading into Photoshop. I am looking for a lightweight PSD viewer application, is there any?
I recently started a project converting a magazine's PDFs into a digital reader app. Up until now, the PDFs that were given to me were all set up so that each page of the magazine was a separate page of the PDF. Recently I have been getting them formatted differently however. Now they are set up so the front and back pages are single pages, but very inside page is set up as a landscape shaped PDF page that contains two different magazine pages per PDF page (I hope that makes sense). The problem I have is the digital reader app cannot support this and I am at a loss trying to figure out how to split each page. Any advice?
My Illustrator is acting a bit buggy; more precisely, no selection is actually visible. Selected text isn't highlighted, looking for an anchor is like looking for a needle in a haystack, and finding a handle is a futile effort from the beginning. My thinking is that this could be resolved by resetting Illustrator's preferences; where some blogs and fora suggest that it's under Home Folder > Libraries > Application Support > Adobe > Adobe Illustrator CS6, I haven't found the preferences folder in that directory. Is there any other way to reset it, or fix the problem?
I tend to use Photoshop, but for my engineering course I do want to use something as simple as MS Paint. I literally need to do this: Create a square with whatever color outline Fill the square with another color Draw some shapes inside with yet another color Save the image as a .gif (must be a .gif) But when I do it, the whole image is dithered. Which completely kills my program. If I filled my shape with a solid color, it turns into a sea of completely different pixels (similar to the color, but I need it to be exact). I understand that .gif lowers the quality by having to use a much more limited set of colors, which is perfectly good for me - I don't mind having my image's colors slightly changed to match the .gif limits. But I don't want it to dither. If I truly can't achieve this with MS Paint (which I doubt), what other simple solutions have you got? I heard something about converting it to a 256-colors bitmap and then transform it to a .gif. I don't think I understood well the instructions: what I did was draw my image, save as a 256-colors .bmp (which converted my colors, which is alright for me), but as soon as I saved it to .gif, the colors dithered.
I drew two separate objects in Photoshop that are meant to be on different layers, but I drew them on the same layer. They do not overlap right now, but I can't seem to figure out how to separate them. How can I do that? Thanks! edit I've added an image to show what I mean. I have two grids I've constructed and both are on the same layer. I meant for them to be on separate layers. The image is here:
I'm planning to create a website with many webpages which are shared by a navigational menu. For example: www.apple.com Do I have to create separate html files with the same menu code or is there an easier way to accomplish the same task? (using javascript, php, etc)
I am reading a short text on typography, which refers to the “flow line” without defining what it is. My dictionary has a non-typographic definition: flow line a route followed by a product through successive stages of manufacture or treatment. which doesn’t shed much light. Google search results all say some variation of “the line on which the text is placed”. So, is the flow line the same thing as the baseline? (A picture being worth a kiloword, graphical definitions would be very welcome!)
I've got multiple paths which, together, create a single sprite in Illustrator. I'm trying to merge the paths in order to apply a gradient to the whole thing; however, Pathfinder does nothing, and just joining the paths closes open paths and gives me unwanted, and very visible, jagged edges. Is there any other way to combine multiple paths to make them act as a single object, or apply a gradient to multiple paths as if they were a single object?
Is it preferable to write a thin space after nobiliary particles (von, de la, …)? Does for example Miguel de\,Cervantes y\,Saavedra look better than the standard width spaced equivalent?
Hum, for some reason I would like to buy myself a book about typography. I have a lot of interest in this field, and already have some knowledge learnt from reading Typophile now and then, among other online sources. I would like to consolidate my knowledge with a book about typography, possibly a mix of theoretical considerations and examples (I quite like the balance achieved, for example, in the Tufte books).
In Photoshop, I've drawn a circle with fill set to 0% to get a circle without a fill. This looks fine in Photoshop, but when I save it as a PDF for use in another document, it fills the circle! What gives? How can I keep it without the fill when it's a PDF (the background is transparent).
Is there any difference between these two terms, or they describe the same thing?
I have a text document/csv with 100 unique codes that should be used for a gift card. For the gift card, I need to provide 100 PDF's each with the unique code. Is it possible to do this using Illustrator or InDesign? I'm thinking of making a textbox that can contain the code, but I don't know how to make 100 PDF's with the codes. Thanks!
My document looks like this: I save as a PDF from Photoshop, using the default High Print Quality setting. The resulting PDF looks like this: What's going on?
I have many .psd files that each contain 2+ layers that I need to export as layers. For a single psd fileD I can use: File > Scripts > Export Layers To Files ... However if I use this script (in a droplet) I have to hard-code the destination folder and File Name Prefix. This is no good as many of the .psd files contain layers with the same names, so they would overwrite each other and I need each file to be prefixed by the .psd name. So a layer called text_1 from a .psd file called doc_1 would be called doc_1_text_1, and a layer called text_1 from a .psd file called doc_2 would be called doc_2_text_1 or something similar. Is there any way I can do this? I'm happy to hard-code the destination folder, but I need the script to use whatever the name of the .psd file is for the prefix.
I can´t import .png files with transparencies to Flash Mx, it says that if I want to import the hole pictures of the sequence and later that the import did not finish because an unknown error occurred. So, I think that if I change the image to .gif or something it could work but I´m not sure if .gif saves the transparencies?? What can I do?? Thanks for answer.
Scribus lets you crop images easily by choosing "properties" > "image" > "free scaling". After cropping, you can even move the image around inside the frame by double clicking on the image and then dragging it. I love this functionality. Very useful. BUT after I've done this, I want to enlarge the image and the frame easily. The best thing I've come up with is: open transform dialog to enter an exact scaling amount and scale the image frame, then do some math and appropriately scale the image by the same proportion, then re-position the image within the frame. I'd love to find a quicker way to do this. Very cumbersome at the moment. Note that I'm not looking for the "Scale image to frame" functionality because that doesn't let me crop the image within Scribus. Also note that I don't want to crop the source image because I want to be able to re-adjust it later if necessary.
I'm making a sign for my kids' school, and am having trouble with one detail. The primary text is "Walking School Bus Stop". This, the school name, and a whimsical graphic all go into a 3:4 aspect ratio design. (This will be an actual metal sign placed on the street.) The complication really all comes from the fact that "school bus" is properly two words. Because of this, it really reads better if the lines are broken like so: Walking School Bus Stop Because "Bus Stop" is also a familiar phrase, with a different break, it looks like we're talking about a "Walking School", when, really, it's the normal sort of elementary school that happens to have a program where we encourage kids and parents to walk instead of driving. And, that, in turn, means that in the font I've chosen, the letter g drops down to get in the way of the B. Like this: Which really irritates me visually. If I increase the line spacing, it seems too spaced (and I have to reduce the text size), which is not desirable. What are good solutions here? It looks just fine if the text is all right-aligned — the g tucks down nicely over the u and s — but given the aspect ratio constraint it's hard to balance that and the other elements. Font is Coolvetica. (Be glad it's not Comic Sans.) And it looks awful in all-caps, so that solution would really be "find another font", which isn't ideal. What else could I do?
I have a body of text that I am trying to layout in a visually pleasing way but I can not figure it out. The goal is to have this layout (see psuedocode): <container> <main /> <column1 /><column2 /> </container Basically, there will be a large body of text and then below it 2 smaller bodies of text that are columns. The columns would be side by side, below the main body of text and their combined width + their padding would be the same width ad the main body + its padding. Currently I'm trying a javascript + CSS method that automatically breaks the text into columns but it's going nowhere and I can't figure out a visually pleasing way to do this.
There's a pretty big problem I'm having with Aaron Bealle's Export to SVG script in Fireworks: So I have a path in Fireworks that I created from a marquee selection (which came from the magic wand, some feathering and smooth selection). Let's take this image I vectorized in Fireworks from a drawing by someone at the NHS Designs in Sacramento as an example. (Download Fireworks PNG file) When the path is exported as an SVG using the Export script — only the outer edge is taken into account. So what I get is a black shape on a transparent/white background. (When in fact the black shape was more complicated than that — but was still a single path.) (Download SVG file) How do I fix this? Thank you!
I want to create light weight PNG images with good quality. Can anyone suggest the best way...Note: Need to use these PNG images in android app designing.
I have 2 blocks of text that are pretty small (just under a paragraph each) and they really look better justified but the problem is that text-align: justify; sometimes adds really large spaces and makes the text somewhat ugly (the opposite effect, obviously). Is it possible to more finely tune the word spacing with CSS so that this doesn't happen?
What are these effects supposed to replicate ? Is it a reflection, a refraction, caustics ?
When I start working on a web design project and finish up the home page, I duplicate that PSD file, remove the contents leaving the header and footer, and start working on the next page. I run into problems when I need to make changes to either the header or footer as I would need to go back and make the same changes to the other files. I've tried using smart objects but I find it complicated to make changes as I would like to see how it looks with the rest of the design while I'm making the changes. Is there a better way to go about this?
I am starting out as a freelance website developer so I need to improve my graphics drawing skill. Up till now I'm using an open source tool GIMP to create the concepts and mock ups of the websites I design.I know that Photoshop is the Industry standard(at least as far as I know). So,what books can help me in learning some advanced Photoshop techniques used frequently in web designing.Also I want to learn how to draw cartoon characters like this.I know it is a matter of creativity but still there must be some techniques which I can learn.Please express your views. Just for the record, I'm basically a web developer so my graphics drawing capabilities are very limited(but I want to improve that).
I have looking through DeviantArt and the background of one of the web interfaces caught my eye. I tried to replicate it but couldn't get anywhere near the perfect effect. http://numarislp.deviantart.com/art/Millenium-Responsive-creative-portfolio-full-333356344 I'm thinking it also has something to do with the actual photograph. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks,
I have an image on which I would like to sample colors. It could look like this (it's the Novamind logo) : I'm looking for a tool that could define a path ( Bézier, circle, regular polygons, for example), set the number of samples I want, and output the colors found along the path in various formats. I' not looking for a Photoshop plug-in, but more something like the DigitalColor Meter on OS X; it's a simple color picker.
I'm an amateur graphic designer. When I'm free I do some simple graphic designing with Photoshop and Illustrator (mess around with the pen tool, add style to a layer, adjust hue of an image, etc). I've been a great fan of Dribbble and I'm always fascinated by the amazing pieces of art there. - Find by Alext Volkow - Circus Tent by Michael Tzscheppan - Sandwich iOS icon by Ryan Ford These semi photo-realistic icons are so well-designed. I would appreciate if someone can offer me some tips on designing icons like these.
I have added end arrows to some connectors and Bézier curves, but I cannot find how to set their colour, since they appear to be concerned neither by the background settings nor by the outline ones. They remain black no matter what. How can I assign a given colour to an arrow?
When I choose a font size for use in a graphic I usually opt for font size menu dropdown defaults like 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 18, 24, 30, 36, 48, 60, or 72. If I'm working on something large (like an A3 poster) I need much larger fonts. I'm always tempted to keep these as powers of 2 (e.g. 128, 256, or 512). But why? Am I just being superstitious! Does font size have any technical implications? Is choosing 512 in any sense better than 513 or am I actually free to choose whatever looks best?
I need to blend this photo into a square shaped flyer and don't know what effect should i use on th background to make it look like the photo. This is the photo This is what i've done so far I really like the "old" pixelated effect of the photo but i couldn't reproduce it in Photoshop.