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I'm designing a template for product packaging. While designing, I'd like to have the layout as it would be printed out flat, but I'd also like to have different 'views' (front, back, bottom, etc) so that they can be easily show to other people. I'd like to do this with a transform so that I won't accidentally have any differences between the layout and the views. Here is what I'm trying to achieve: https://i.stack.imgur.com/DaeyR.jpg First I apply the transform effect to the "Original" (rotate, move horizontally and vertically) (image 2) Then I add a compound clipping mask so that the "C" panel isn't shown in the view I just made (image 3) So far so good. When I try to add another transform effect is where the problem arises (image 4) As you can see, the second transform is including everything from the first transform. Is there a way around this? Or maybe a better way of doing what I'm trying to achieve? I am using AI CS5.5.
This should be simple to do, but I'm having no luck figuring it out. In Coreldraw, I want to out the document path on my titleblock, similar to what you'd see on the gutter of an engineering drawing. An example would be C:\users\jmac\121121_figure1.cdr, and I'd like it to update itself when the document opens. Any help appreciated.
I've been searching on internet but with no success... I have a old Fujitsu ST5020D Wacom Penabled tablet pc. As you know, a 1ghz Celeron + 256MB RAM wouldn't fill my needs as working on Adobe Master Suite tools. Is there a way to work on my ST5020 as a external Pen Tablet, working as a input/output device for my computer running Illustrator & Photoshop? As summary, is there a way to turn my ST5020 into a Cintiq like tablet?
Looking for fonts that have anything to do with cognitive science. E.g., a type that somehow evokes either brains, thoughts, science, biology, psychology, connectionist networks, mind, etc. Anyone know of any?
For a webinterface i am designing icons in Inkscape. These icons all use the same colorsetting and gradient. Then, when designing the mockups i copy the the icons to a new document using copy + paste. Everything gets transfered well except for the name of the gradient. When i want to change the color setting of the website, i need to change every single gradient or assign the 'default' to the icon. When having 20+ icons per mockup this is a time consuming task. Is there a way to transfer the gradients of the icons between documents whithout loosing the name? Or, is there a way to batch-replace gradients of the icons in the new document?
I have photographed text and writing with usual camera. Picture contains black printing lines and blue pen writing. Picture contains the following artifacts: 1) paper is not white 2) non-uniform shading over paper 3) irregular paper pattern Are there conventional ways to enhance such an images automatically? I wish paper to become uniformly white, without pattern, printing will be close to perfect black and writing close to perfect blue.
I am having to deal with CMYK JPEGs extracted from a PDF source. The PDFs were created with Photoshop. The problem is that Photoshop stores JPEG CMYK data in PDF/EPS using "normal" values, whereas in standalone JPEGs it stores inverted values. So, when the DCTDecode streams are extracted bytewise and written to disk, the resulting JPEG files appear inverted. (The actual extraction is done by an in-house utility, which simply extracts the bytes from the DCTDecode stream and writes them, unmodified, to a file ending in .jpg It's basically a binary copy-and-paste. The PDFs are available to re-process, should that be required.) As the images must remain in their JFIF format, is there any way to place a marker into the extracted .jpg file to make Photoshop open it with the proper encoding? The process must be lossless (not involve further entropy encoding). The JPEGs already contain the APP14 marker, and removing it has no effect. Below is a quote from the libjpeg docs: "... it appears that Adobe Photoshop writes inverted data in CMYK JPEG files: 0 represents 100% ink coverage, rather than 0% ink as you'd expect. ... Photoshop 3.0 [and newer]... write uninverted YCCK in EPS/JPEG files... (But the data polarity used in bare JPEG files will not change...)"
The simple effect I'm ultimately after is this: load an image in the centre of a web page have the image slide across to the left then start loading other text and images around it I don't mind how many separate web pages are required to do this, or how many separate images, but I'd like to know what my options are. I am more programmer than graphic designer, so maybe I'm searching using the wrong technical terms. Maybe "animation" is too grand a term for so simple an effect, but "slide" has other connotations in this context, and between those two things, I'm struggling to find a clear way to a clear answer. I would ultimately like to understand things like: Can the above task be achieved with one image on one page, in HTML, without scripting? Does HTML only support "static" elements that appear on screen, and never change their position? If that is the case, does all animation therefore rely on either having (static) elements with dynamic content, or repeatedly loaded/rendered static elements which give an appearance of movement? How widespread is browser support for the various animation options? So as the original question suggests, maybe a tutorial would be good. I haven't found a decent one of those yet either!
This arrow is transparent image. I want to draw an icon like this image (transparent) in Photoshop. The idea behind this is I want to colour the icon by using gradient tool in my app. It would help me if you could suggest the steps you want us to take?
I'm new to filter editor, and it's pretty complicated. How would you approach creating outer bevel effect on shape in Inkscape?
It is window with tools such as magic-wand -selector but cannot find anything from Tools or View -dropdowns. So how can I get the Tools -window back after closing it?
Sorry can't find this simple feature. I was asked for document size at creation time but don't know how to change this later.
So for some reason, totally unknown to me, I now have a very annoying color picker setup in Photoshop. At the moment, whenever I change the colour in the right-hand color selector (which updates the main selector area) the colors available in that right hand area totally change. Very annoying, and very difficult to get a color you want. See screenshot below of my current color picker: *(attempted image post. However, image is behind an Amazon S3 user log in and will not show here.)* The default one worked very well for me, and I want it back. How?
Here is a simple cylinder, created from an oval using the 3d extrude tool in Illustrator, and exported as a PNG: Now here is the same cylinder "saved as" SVG in Illustrator (I have displayed it in the Chrome browser and screen captured it as this site will not allow SVG uploads - it's the same in FireFox and Safari, and indeed, in Illustrator if I open the SVG file - ie, it looks rubbish). Is this a problem with the SVG standard that it doesn't blend the component planes well? How do I get it to look as good as in Illustrator itself, or as the PNG, or is this impossible? Oh by the way this is CS6 16.10, and I've tried various toggles on the SVG output with no luck.
I would like to know how to achieve this zigzag effect (including the shadow) in Photoshop CS6:
Forgive me for i'm not especially talented with graphic design. I was trying to make some icons for my mobile app which more or less is following a chalkboard theme. I thought that it would be easiest for me to do some pencil sketches on paper and import those into photoshop and play with the blending options. The result is actually quite fine for my tastes but i want some of these to be colored a bit and pop-out of the board and sorta rest on top of it, show a little dimension. My issue is that these are what i'm working with with blending options normal: Something like that above kinda is hard for me. I don't know whether to color right in because the resulting colors are always skewed. I don't know if i can just cut out the outline, because there's more black inside as well as outside. If i'm not being clear, i hope that this final picture will show what i'm attempting.
I am trying to create this effect http://qldsignfactory.com.au/sites/qldsignfactory.com.au/files/photos/bunting.jpg I've tried using this method here but I can't get the triangle to point perpendicular the path... http://vimeo.com/6518000 Any idea how I can create the effect?
Trying to create a symbol in Illustrator CS6, a pop-up says A symbol definition cannot contain a linked image. I have two questions: Why? I mean, what's the motivation for not allowing this? (I'm a programmer, but cannot understand what prevents allowing this) How can I workaround this? I have to do a collage, so it's very nice to have symbols - saves disk & memory space.
Is there a free library of vector graphics for commercial use?
Sometimes, word processors screw up hyphenation by hyphenating a series of consecutive lines. This just happened to me in a spectacular way:                 What's most annoying in the above case is that the text column was quite wide (full page width, 11 point type), so avoiding some of these breaks by stretching some inter-word spaces would not have been a problem. (The culprit, if you want to know, is Apple’s Page software.) I have two questions: does this phenomenon have a name (it's sort of like a river, but with hyphens)? Does common word processing (Word, Page) software have options to avoid it?
I work with documents mixing text and bitmap images, for which the final format is a PDF file. Most of the times, I produce my own graphics, which means that I have a choice of: Creating all bitmap images at very high resolution, embed it in the document, and post-process the final PDF document to downsample all images to my target resolution (say, 300 dpi). When I create the bitmap images, export them at a size consistent with the target resolution and intended size, then include them in the document (and no need for downsampling later on). The second option has one major downside: it means that if I change my mind later (e.g., I want to include an image at twice the original size), I have to recreate the bitmap image file. It's not a very big deal, but still. Because, I cannot see any downside to the first option, that's what I regularly use. My question is: how do you arbitrate between these two options? Do you always work with overly high resolution images, and downsample everything as the last step?
I've designed an image in illustrator which is made up of lots of vector objects (as drawn with the pen tool), and now I want to manipulate my image in photoshop . I want to be able to edit anchor points as if I had created them in photoshop, and then create derive pretty rastor images at a later stage. I can import my work as a smart object, but if I try to edit it, photoshop opens illustrator and I'm back to square one! I've attempted turning my file into compound images, but there are far too many small objects to do it in this lifetime so I need an alternative. Thanks.
I have two documents open in Adobe Illustrator CS6 for Mac. They are both dragons and I want the dragons to be the same colour. I have entered the same value however the colours are different. I noticed that the CMYK spectrum for both documents are different - one appears to be lighter than the other. How do I change this so they are both the same? Thanks
From this Slate article: Hundreds of years ago some typesetters would end sentences with a double space, others would use a single space, and a few renegades would use three or four spaces. Inconsistency reigned in all facets of written communication; there were few conventions regarding spelling, punctuation, character design, and ways to add emphasis to type. […] Every modern typographer agrees on the one-space rule. It's one of the canonical rules of the profession, in the same way that waiters know that the salad fork goes to the left of the dinner fork and fashion designers know to put men's shirt buttons on the right and women's on the left. Every major style guide—including the Modern Language Association Style Manual and the Chicago Manual of Style—prescribes a single space after a period. (The Publications Manual of the American Psychological Association, used widely in the social sciences, allows for two spaces in draft manuscripts but recommends one space in published work.) Most ordinary people would know the one-space rule, too, if it weren't for a quirk of history. However, a double-space after period rule is still the default in some software, and most famously in TeX. This implies that the transition may not be as “complete” as the Slate article implies. So, my question is: can we somehow date the end of the double-space?
I'm using Photoshop CS6 for the first time. I see that the shapes have been changed and have heard about how it's all true vector behavior now so it's great. However, there's one thing I used to be able to do quickly that I can't seem to do now and was wondering if you could give me a tip. In older Photoshop versions, I could hold down alt while I had the shapes tool selected and select a new fill color from anywhere in my image regardless of which layer it was on. Now, it seems like I can only color sample from a layer if I have the layer that it's on selected and then when I go back to draw on the layer with the shapes again, the color changes back to whatever the first shape fill color was. Does this mean that every time I want to change the fill color before drawing a shape, I have to select the fill color on the top bar and then pick one if I actually want it to stick or what? Not sure if this makes sense but I just want to be able to quickly draw shapes of different colors on the same layer without a hassle like I used to. Is there a way to turn off the vector behavior? Is there another way to do this quickly? Thanks! Update: I see now that I have to hit enter to "deselect" the last shape I made before I can draw another one and toggle the eyedropper again so that helps but it still doesn't sample from all layers even though I have that option checked on the actual eyedropper tool itself. Is it not able to do that when it's just the eyedropper you're toggling off another tool?
How do I design this shape in Photoshop?: The box is rounded and it has an arrow pointer at the bottom. I am not bothered about the color.
Screenshot taken from a popular game (LetterPress), where a user has his name in a right-to-left script (which looks like arabic). This typesetting is clearly surprising, as the name is out of line with other usernames (e.g., “whocaresalot”). However, I can see the logic at work behind it… So: what are the general rules guiding typography of right-to-left text in a left-to-right context?
What are some graphic design environments that are fundamentally markup-code-based? In other words, an environment where you do graphic design not with a WYSIWYG-style drag-and-drop interface, but rather by describing/experimenting with a graphic design via writing declarative code. One example is the Blueprint CSS Framework.
I'm working on an icon of a framed painting. I would like the painting to be immediately recognizable to the intended audience, and so am considering doing a stylized reproduction of a particular painting from scratch to include in the icon. The original painting is copyrighted. Is there any legal problem with doing this?
What is the font family and the sizes used in Stackexchange Math content and headings? I think it is a readable font. It would be nice if we use it also in web pages involving mathjax. If it is not free, is there a similar font family which is free to use on webpages?
Do you know how can I create batch script in Photoshop that reverses the position of all the layers inside a layer group? I have like 400 layer groups, each with 1-20 layers like this: Group 1 - layer 1 - layer 2 - layer 3 ... And i want to reverse position so it becomes like this: Group 1 - layer 3 - layer 2 - layer 1 ... This is because I'm adding new layers constantly and they are always placed in front, so it makes sense to put older layers last
Me and my fellow co-workers are using PS and if one of us uses a font that the rest do not have you get those annoying warnings about not having that font... Is there a better way to share that font(s)? Like a shared folder that we could point PS to look for its fonts. This way all of us will be in sync. Some of us are running Mac with PS5 and some Win7 with PS6. Thank you in advance!
I have an SVG image with many objects, stacked. What I need is a final SVG, with the same visual result, but in a way that I could change the opacity of any object without revealing the hidden parts of underlying objects, revealing just the "hole" behind. I've done this diagram to illustrate the request: This example above was done by hand with Inkscape, selecting every square and duplicating it as many times as the number of differences (ctrl + -) I needed to "cut" the underlying objects. This method is very hard to apply with a large amount of objects. Any software (Adobe Illustrator, command line tool...) or method that solves this problem will be welcome.
I like to design using Omnigraffle, which can save files in PDF and several other standardized vector formats. I realize that "mockup to HTML" paid crowdsourcing services are a dime a dozen, but what about automatic conversion? Of course it's a very hard problem to solve computationally, but... What are the most reliable software tools out there for automatically (or semi-automatically) converting a mockup (i.e. a PDF showing rectangular regions of color, text, and graphics) into tidy HTML+assets? This is not asking about anything interactive like FORM controls, just static visual layout expressed cleanly in HTML.
On illustrator, when drawing a series of straight lines, you can choose under "stroke" how the corners of those lines will be: round, bevel and miter. I'm looking for the same function on sketchup. I've found that under styles - extension, you can extend the end of the line, but not round it. How can I achieve that?
I'm trying to learn how to create a scattered pixel effect in Photoshop. I know how to create pixelated graphics. But i'd like to know how to create an effect where the pixels are scattered. Similar to this photo.
Before I do this, I wanted to ask the experts on how to properly do it. I need to glue a printed sheet to a heavier card stock paper, than I need the whole thing folder in half. The question is do I score/fold before or after I glue the sheets together. I'm trying to avoid paper rips where the folds are. Your help appreciated.
I'm new to Photoshop. I have just started to learn from seeing and using free web templates available on the net. I have this good looking web template in a PSD file. The background has a nice texture, which I want to extract as a jpg file and use it in the background property in my CSS file. Obviously I want to extract just the right patch so that I can repeat it throughout the page. How can I mark the exact area and create the smallest png file? You can download the file from here. https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=C0126A573B9DAD5D!271 Also in the same template, you can see a pattern (the very first element) that repeats horizontally. How can I mark the exact area to extract the minimum area and use it to repeat horizontally on my webpage. Thanks
Today I would like to create a coffee cup with the cream floral on it as a text by using Photoshop. It looks like you order a cup of hot cappuccino and the bartender will draw a flower with cream on the surface of coffee but now I want to make it like a text to present a tittle. I just need to do the cream text effect, no need to draw the whole cup of coffee since i can't use some images. So anyone can tell me how to do this cream effect on Photoshop. Thanks in advance for any feedback!
I've seen many, many examples of flashy résumés by various designers, and I was wondering if this approach is effective. For example, Michael Farrow's multi-paged CV, and these infographic-styled approaches. Are they beneficial? Are they beyond the scope of a traditional résumé? Is this information useful to prospective employers? Is there such thing as an "overdesigned résumé"? I suppose the most important question I have would be: Is a résumé a vehicle for a designer to experiment with being 'clever' to attract attention? Or, is something with a simple message, good typography and clear hierarchical structure enough to stand out?
All I could find on the subject was this paper, which is pretty interesting in itself. But it only deals with preference. 57% of the test subject prefers hyphenated text. This is kind of surprising to me, because I get the feeling hyphenation hinders the ability to take up the entire word in one glance. Does anyone know whether there are any experiments out there that measure actual reading time? Glassman, Tracy (1997). Principles of Typography for the Screen. Master’s thesis. Rochester NY, USA: Rochester Institute of Technology.
Most of us would love to work with a cintiq-like tablet, but very few could afford one, especially if they are not professionals. There have been questions about this, ideas to try to use an android tablet for such purposes, but everyone used the phrase "just buy a wacom bamboo tablet" like a mantra. I didnt give up on my pursuit and found solutions that fit in a 150-200$ price range. Those would be PC laptops with integrated digitizers. Ill be buying a second hand Fujitsu LifeBook T4220 for around 190$. There are others, like the IBM X61, some toshibas, HPs etc... So my question is: how come nobody advised buying such PCs? Are they little known about, or do they have some big disadvantages I dont know about? I mean - its wacom technology. Sure, in the soon-to-be-mine Fujitsu model there are 255 pressure levels, not 2k like in intuos devices, but I am not a pro and I probably couldnt feel any difference between the two. These computers have reasonable specs, nice processors and should do fine. One might say that they have integrated graphics card, but is that such a big deal? Photoshop should run fine, at least for typical digital painting tools, and there is always GIMP (pretty lightweight compared to PS) or using the entire laptop as a remote desktop display for a stationary PC with decent hardware. All this in a price range below one fifth of the smallest cintiq! Why wouldnt an amateur use such laptops for drawing, designing, digital painting etc? Is there something i need to know before making the purchase? edit a bit more info about what im looking for: Im mostly interested in sketching, drawing and digital painting with the tablet. I dont like the pen-picture detachment when using regular graphic tablets, also i dont like it how i cant turn them to get comfortable drawing angles, and thats why im seeking a cintiq-like solution. I tried using some android tablets, but the lack of ANY pressure sensitivity makes painting very cumbersome - maiking a smooth colour transition is a lot of work, while with pressure sensitivity it would only take a few swipes. I dont really do any photo work. Also, Im just an amateur and do drawing/painting as a hobby, not a job. So, any reasons why a PC tablet like the one I mentioned wouldnt satisfy my needs?
Is there a way to drag a selection and move it around while you create it? I know there's a program that supports this but I don't remember which. like some sort of a key combo. for example holding shift while sizing you shape keeps the aspect ratio and holding alt duplicates your sizing in the opposite direction. I would think that holding ctrl would let me move the shape around.
I would like to use pdf for ease of use and annotations when creating previews of my screen designs. However, no matter how I create my pdf, I can't seem to figure out what determines the 100% view of my pdf file. Naturally, I would like my pdf 100% view to be the same size on screen as my photoshop layouts - how do you achieve that? From my tests I can see that the dpi of the photoshop/tiff/jpg file affects what acrobat picks as 100% when importing the image from file (or saving as pdf from photoshop, for that matter), but seeing how about 95dpi for the image file results in a 100% pdf view that roughly is the same as my actual pixel size, I wonder what's the logic here. Short answer as I understand it based on the answers: 100% size is determined by the "preferences > page display" ppi value, which is user/system specific
I'm creating an iOS app and have a couple custom icons for my navigation bar. The first one is a plus sign and that came out pretty well. I also have a refresh icon and it's not as sharp as the plus sign. Obviously having a circular shape and having to do anti-aliasing play into this somewhat but I feel like the refresh icon should be way sharper than it is. I'm not an expert in Photoshop or graphic design so I'm looking for tips on how to get the refresh icon to be a little clearer and crisper. Here's how I went about creating it: 1) Started with background elements in Photoshop 2) Found refresh icon I liked that had royalty free licensing. 3) Took icon that was in .png format and imported it into Photoshop. 4) Did color replace of icon from original gray to current white using the color replace tool. 5) Saved out the white refresh icon to .png file. 6) When back to my other Photoshop document (with background, etc) and did a 'File' -> 'Place' and placed the white refresh .png into the document. Did not resize at all. 7) Added identical stroke effect to refresh icon as the plus sign icon. I know there's got to be a better way to do this to get a better result. Do I just have to bite the bullet and go to Illustrator and try to draw my own? I don't have a vector representation of that icon I found - only Photoshop and .png. Any tips would be much appreciated. Attached is the screenshot of the navigation bar with both icons.
Are there any additional options for reducing the size of a Powerpoint presentation without losing image quality? I've got a deck that is approximately 25 slides, 15 of which have images. The deck ends up being over 25 MB. I would like to possibly cut that in half. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Ok so here you can see text in MS Word. 11 pt Times New Roman looks way bigger than the text in Photoshop at the same size and in the same font. The resolution in Photoshop was and has always been 72 pixels/inch.
When using Cambria (included with Office for Mac 2011) in PS, I get this huge insertion bar (err...). But seriously, in the left hand example the cursor is positioned after the number 1, and the bar reaches way below line 2! In the right example, the cursor is positioned after '2' for comparison. The type palette is shown. Other fonts perform as expected (the insertion bar matches line height). doh, not allowed to post images.. here it is:
Various sources (such as Wikipedia) say that underlining words is a practice originally from handwritten documents, intended to show the printer that the words needed to be emphasized (with italics or some such). Today, I sometimes see underlines showing up in books and other printed material. When did books start using underlined text for emphasis? Edit: Many of the answers and comments here seem to have a No True Scotsman problem. I'm well aware that good typography doesn't use underlines for emphasis, but plenty of books use lousy typography.
I'd like my image to blend into the background gradually around the edges on a web project I'm working on. How do I fade transparency around the edge of an image in gimp?
I have an image in photoshop that contains multiple objects. I made a multiple selection of those objects (they all have the same color) Is it possible to transform the selection into multiple vector objects so i can resize all of them easily and get better result for small size. Thanks!
I would like to give (gift) a book to a friend which studied art for many years and is thinking about studying graphic design. I know pretty much stuff about web design, having read books, articles and guides, I know that good web design books always explain a bit of graphic design too, but usually they're more specific to web stuff. I'd like to give her a book which is more about graphic design in general (she likes illustration) informative, practical and inspiring. Any suggestion?
When designing for mobile web, its important to check designs at the physical screen size of target device. Merely looking at your PC / Mac screen at designs of the same resolution isn't enough: * Mobile devices have smaller pixels (higher pixel density), and thus X x Y pixels on a PC screen will be physically smaller on mobile devices (generally) * One 'web pixel' (i.e. a CSS pixel) will be re-sized by the mobile device. e.g. retina devices doubling up pixels. Has anyone encountered any good tools for simulating web designs (image based, not HTML prototypes) at the correct physical size (on a PC screen) for mobile devices?
I want to begin with drawing but I have literally no experience. I wonder if there are high quality video tutorials, like www.digitaltutors.com just for drawing? I want to start with hard surface objects. Also would you recommend me to begin with a pencil or with a tablet?
I have this vector art I paid for from istockphoto, but I need to shrink it down. In order for this to look good I need to shrink in Ai, then export. However, when I shrink down the graphic, the strokes change relative to the size of the image. In the case of the circle around the thumbs-up, this is a just a path with a stroke on it. Easy. In the case of the thumbs-up, the black line actually gets smaller. Rather than a single path with a stroke applied, there are actually two concentric paths. Increasing the outside one and recentering messes up the interior curve between the thumb and the rest of the fingers, etc. Is there a way to create a larger path from a given path, such that I can effectively increase the stroke of the thumb-up outline?
I'd like to create the effect of ink running similar to how it's been used in the example below. But I'd like to do it in vector. Anybody got some great brushes that might work?
I am pretty new at Gimp, so not sure if this is possible at all. Let's say I have two lines like this, and I give the impression one line is on top of the other by clipping at the intersection, like this: Now let's say those two lines are in different layers and I want this "clipping" to basically be transparent (not just white), is it possible to do something in the layer of the line on top to force transparency in the layer below? I tried to play with layer masks, but did not have any luck...
I am designing icons and elements from an android game using Photoshop CS4. If I am designing a character (512x512) and reduce its size to fit the game screen, lots of details, shades and effects are not visible clearly. How to over come this and create smaller icon with clear and clear details ? Any suggestion, ideas will be appreciated.
I want my creativity to flow right now but I don't have access to the administrator account.
I want to create icons easily. Is there any tool (or tutorial) that can help creating beautiful semantic words that can be added to an existing icon? Example: Suppose that we have this icon: and we want to easily add a word in a beautiful way like this:
I'm using Photoshop CS6. I discovered recently the Fade preset for brushes and wanted to try it out. So I select Fade in "Shape Dynamics" and set number of steps to 120, but the stroke showing in the brush presets menu looks like it's using Pen Pressure and not Fade: both ends are thin. Moreover, when I use it on a path, I can't get a fade effect either. And right after I apply the brush to a path, or when I go to another section in the presets, Pen Pressure gets selected automatically instead of Fade. I mean that when I get back, Pen Pressure is selected even though I didn't touch anything. Trying to save the preset doesn't keep Fade either. I tried on different brushes and even reloaded Photoshop, without success. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?
Is there any way in Photoshop to remove a background color from an image, when some of the background is behind a transparent object. So far, I've tried using masks and channels but have not made any progress. I want to make the background transparent, so that the bottle and 'ink' can be put onto a white background colour. Many thanks in advance, any help would be much appreciated.
I am editing an image in GIMP that has a few nearly-transparent (resp. very light) pixels scattered through an otherwise transparent (resp. pure white) background. Is there a command that will quickly highlight or otherwise indicate pixels that are not the background color (i.e. white or transparent, depending on whether there's an alpha channel), so that I can clear them? (I could just set the similar-color threshold to 0 and flood-fill, but that takes many clicks, and I have to either duplicate the layer first or remember where all the stray pixels are.)
Paint is the best I've found until now. I need the ability to add a background to text and also control padding. Paint would be perfect if it didn't squeeze text to the left and made equal padding from top and bottom. I know I could add some spaces in front and to edit height of the container, but I'm planning to do editing for hundreds of pages and it's impractical to tweak the box size for every piece of text
I'm trying to make a color chart for someone that would be four thumbnails across and four thumbnails down. Now, this seems simple, but there is too much math and calculator work to try and get this to work. Ideally, I'd love to account some gutters/margins, but I just can't figure it out. I found this article from 2006 that seemed perfect, until I couldn't find the option listed there. http://layersmagazine.com/quick-distribute-those-ruler-guides.html EXAMPLE (Not evenly distributed): Does anyone else know how to do this?
So I own a business that will soon start developing mobile apps for platforms such as the iPad. I am wondering if I can legally make a vector graphic of other companies products such as the iPad to put a photo of my application on. I will acquire an Apple Developer account and get the app(s) approved before I publish the graphics. Any insight into this would be greatly appreciated.
when I'm using brush tool and I set up Shape dynamics, Control: fade, there's input on the right for fade length. Is there a way to automatically start fade the path from 50% of length (stroke path)? I don't want to sit and try +10, -10 and so in the input. Thanks for your time and sorry for my english
In Photoshop, how do I take an image in shades of gray, and transform it into shades of whatever color I want? I don't know the term for it, if there's one, neither the property of the image I would be changing with this effect, but I think it's easy to understand.
In looking for fonts I was taken to the Fontspace.com website. I saw the Fontspace Logo and love the logo and the font they are using. The only question I have is what is the font they are using? I have attempted to use What The Font but I have not had any luck in identifying the font. In fact What The Font doesn't even identify the letters in the font at all. Here is an image of the logo:
It came with Photoshop 10 Express, Autocad SketchBook Express and Corel Painter Sketch Pad. They all seem like great tools for creating/modifying art and photos. Is there a better application for drawing using the Wacom Intuos4 for the purpose of teaching, like they do at Khan Academy?
When setting the page ordering of a book in inDesign, I am having trouble figuring out how to have the same document show up twice. I am creating a business book that has the same forms appearing multiple times. How do i duplicate those documents? When I attempt to add them again, I get the message "'filename.indd' can't be added to the book. The document is already part of the book." What do I do?
Are all ascender and descender heights typically equal in well-designed typefaces? Does using identical ascenders and descenders increase readability, or is it not an issue at all?
When I typeset text, I love to be able to choose from a large array of different weights (and, if possible, expansions). Having light and semi-bold variants in addition to the regular and bold weights really help broaden one's choices for setting type elegantly. For long-running text, I am quite partial to old-style serifs, and to Arno Pro and Minion Pro in particular. However, those two are commercial fonts. I am thus looking for a good set of free old-style serif fonts including three or four weights. (Free as is free beer or free speech, I'm trying not to set the bar too high!).
Almost all of my design requirements are given in millimeters, not points, pica, or any other classical measurement. I design for board games, and the printer's specifications always list their requirements in terms of millimeters for margin and bleed, not points and pica. I'm making the jump from doing my layouts in Illustrator (which is happy to think in mm) to InDesign (which everyone assures me is the best program to do layouts in). But InDesign's insistence on converting every measurement I put into it to being in points and picas is wrecking my workflow. How do I convert InDesign to defaulting to measuring dimensions in millimeters rather than points and picas?
Possible Duplicate: Bug: Illustrator now refuses to draw lines with stroke weight below 1 pt On my Illustrator CS5.5 I have the strange behaviour that when I make a perfect horizontal line, the stroke weight has a minimal value of 1pt. I can set it to 0.5pt, but it will jump back. If I make a non-horizontal line and set its stroke weight to a value <1pt, everything is OK. The moment I make that line horizontal the weight jumps back to 1pt. It is possible though to set the weight to 0pt, however this renders the line invisible. Is there a setting I can change to avoid this behaviour or is there some special reason for this?
Is there a way to rotate each line of text by 25 degrees as seen below? In Illustrator or Photoshop.
I've seen a bunch of these - often with similar colour palettes of red with blue/green/turquoise. There are two overlapping copies of the design in two solid colours, which are almost (but not quite) exactly the same and overlap in a way which is almost (but not quite) consistent. Does it have a name? This is the logo of madeByRaygun:
What would be the smallest font in Microsoft Word that when printed on an A4 size paper would still be readable? By readable, I don't mean comfortably readable. All I need is for the printed text to be at least visible when I strain my eyes a little. I am using Calibri as my font type. I have tried font size 6 before, and the text are still quite readable. Now, I want to try font size 5, but I am not sure how drastic would the change be. Would font size 5 for Calibri in Microsoft Word still readable when printed out? PS: I know I could do a test print on my own printer. Unfortunately, it blew up just a while ago and I have no convenient access to a printer at this point of time.
I'm trying to save clip art in .png format so I can preserve the transparent background (I realize .png is usually used for web graphics.) My problem is that my images are absolutely huge. When I save a 4 inch graphic (canvas trimmed) as a png-24 and then attempt to place the file it is suddenly 18" tall. The quality of the image in fantastic, I just want to save it to a smaller size. I've looked all over the web and tried different settings in Photoshop, but can't seem to solve this problem. What am I doing wrong?
When I open a .gif image in Photoshop - non animated - it always locks automatically and you cannot unlock it. Aside from that when try try to add text it will make a red block and convert the text to bitmap. You annoyingly have to copy and paste the document into a new document. Then layer from there.
I would like to have a font with all characters the same width. For example, a W is wider than an i in most fonts ...Is there any font that has all characters equally wide?
I am doing a modified version of SVG-edit 2.6 alpha, an online tool that allows the creation of graphics. I intend to use the application to allow my university students to send files for cutting their project stickers through the web. However the measurements are in pixels and I am worried that the conversion on my side will produce wrong results since from what I understand DPI setting vary from computer to computer and also from browser to browser. In other words I am worried that I cannot ensure compatibility. I am also worried about fonts. I want to install a number of fonts that my students can use, but I am also worried that font compatibility and measurements will vary from computer to computer and from browser to browser. I know there is an option to use millimiters now in svg-edit however this option causes a number of bugs in the application and i dont want to use it. Does anyone have any good expierience with the application and can give me any ideas on how to proceed with this?
How do I add a watermark to one A4 page of text? You know, the standard image-as-a-watermark. I tried doing it in MS Word, the text ended up forming a blanket over the image. Photoshop CS5 was not a success for me either. I eventually had to resort to printing the image first and then the text, but how can I avoid having to do this in future?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/90769238@N04/8244823596/ Please help me either identify this font from the Genz-Ryan logo.
I've just been searching around the net for version control that has some support for graphic/Photoshop files. We're currently using BitBucket which is free and unlimited when it comes to file size but doesn't have any design review tools. Here's what I've found. Does anyone else have any recommendations? Pixelapse – Free/Beta, works well. Now has layer comp support. pixelapse.com Shipment – Private Beta (waiting for an invite) blog.shipmentapp.com/articles/all_new_shipment_beta LayerVault (out of business) – Windows/Mac, has layer comp support layervault.com/support PixelNovel – SVN Version control for Photoshop pixelnovel.com CAD only?! But looks really good. sunglass.io/features.html FileTrek – Very enterprise. No price or demo. filetrek.com/solution/ Kaleidoscopeapp – GIT with image compare kaleidoscopeapp.com/ Apps that copy files with an incremented version alternativeto.net/software/autover/ alternativeto.net/software/filehamster/
I am working on the svg-edit application and I am receiving customer orders through the web. I am converting those pixels to mm based on the formula 3.77 pixels = 1 mm. Is there anyway that something might go wrong if my customer uses a different PPI than what I am using or maybe a different monitor or operating system or maybe a monitor? If a user draws a shape on my online editor using a different PPI than I do is there any possibility that I will get a different pixel shape? Is there any possibility that my formula might have to change if my customer is using a different PPI, monitor or operating system or even browser than I do?
Does CorelDraw has a default read resolution for SVG's? The only DPI settings that will show me the number of pixels exactly as they were created is 96. Is that Corel's native DPI resolution for reading svg files or am I missing something? If I ramp up the resolution to 300 DPI I get wrong numbers, however 96 seems ok.
I designed my cv on Photoshop and then I did two things but still I have a problem: I have two pages of my CV, I saved them as JPEG with save form web and then I combined them in a PDF in Acrobat around and got a 450 KB file, which is suitable in some job websites but the websites didn't detect text as it is a message I always got it when I upload my cv. I saved my cv as PDF files and then I combined them in Acrobat but the size was 233 MB ! which is never possbile to upload. I want my cv to be a good example of my work and not just a word document. I am not sure what I should do to upload it to job websites.
I have a 4 color gradient fill angled at 40 degrees (maybe its not the best way to achieve what I want) and the lines where colors meet are having jaggies. I have attached a screenshot of the gradient settings and the actual result. I would like to know if there is a way to make those edges smooth.
Usually, when I crop an image in Photoshop, I can drag around the area and just crop. But when I try this in Photoshop Elements, however, the image is always resized. Is there a way I can just crop and not scale so it's insanely small?
Most designers hit a roadblock at one time or another. Few designers get those "dream" projects where they are allowed to create anything and everything they want. In most cases we all have to adhere to some restrictions. After dealing with similar restrictions repeatedly, it becomes very easy to get mired down in how the design problems have been previously solved rather than finding new solutions. I'm familiar with mood boards, idea books, and the like. However, these all seem to basically take the user down the same previously traveled paths. What specific steps should one take in order to break out of current mindsets and expand horizons to look at a project in a fresh, inventive manner? Is there a processes you use to conceptualize something in a new way?
I import VECTORS in illustrator that i want to lasercut but they are measured in pixels. I want to output that to DXF. However i am wondering if pixels are converted to mm using a standard formula in Illustrator. From what i am guessing however Illustrator is set to default DPI at 72 so the formula is standard (pixels*25.4)/dpi. Is this correct? Also is this the standard that Illustrator uses? If i take this and reverse it i can see that illustrator multiplies the pixels by 2.8347. If i always scale the pixels using 283.47% will i always get the same result in mm? Is there anyway this can go wrong or is it hardwired and non-changeable in Illustrator? Thank you Mario
Questions as follow: 1) I want to make a design in Illustrator for a box packaging, say of 5 x 5 x 10. How should I prepare the layout? I mean make it like here: and then just make guide lines! 2) Also, how should I prepare the design for hot stamping process?
Is there a way to directly paste PNG images in Photoshop and keep their transparency? I don't mean dragging them, but directly pasting from, for example, a browser. Transparency is always replaced by black.
When we work on websites, sometimes the PSD files save in the HTML/Images folder of the project. We usually upload HTML folder to the server through Dreamweaver. Is there a way we can tell Dreamweaver to not upload PSD files?
I'm working on a logo and trying to give the logo shape a 3D'ish depth effect. Here is what I currently have: Regular size: Larger size: The way I'm currently achieving this effect is by creating the diamond shapes with regular flat color fill and then I have another 'paste in place' diamond shape that's a gradient with the opacity being '100% overlay'. Like this: I'm not a graphic designer so I really don't know if this is the 'right way' to go about achieving this effect. I do find that with the second layer you can kind of see some hard edges on the triangle, I've seen it be more pronounced when printing it as well. My question is, is there a better way to achieve this effect or even create a better more 3D'ish effect? Also, how do I go about making sure the logo is crisp and doesn't have any hard edges or imperfections? My apologies if this is a rather ignorant question, I've never had any format graphic design training, figured this out just by playing around with Illustrator.
I want to emphasize a word in a sentence. I've seen it somewhere but couldn't find the picture. Its like the selected word is normal but all other things are blurry. And maybe the word is closer than the rest. Any tutorial or tips on doing this?
I recently upgraded to CS6 so its throwing me off when I apply styles to that effect borders on shapes, when I select the layer for the shape and in choosing the layer it selects the outer edge of the shape to show me where the shape is, in previous versions of photoshop something like this usually occurs when I first create a shape or when I did a layer select while holding ctrl (I think it was) but in either event, click off the layer and then back on the highlighted edge would be gone leaving me to see what I am doing. Now I wouldn't necessarily like to have this turned off completely less thats the only option hoping one exists, but I would like to not have it be there when I don't want it to be. Anyone have ideas? Also note I am on a Mac I know that doesn't hold much weight on the overall program and options but felt it was worth mentioning.
I'm physically disabled and terribly slow at using Photoshop. Part of it is due to my own unfamiliarity with the program. Part of it is due to me being a back end programmer by trade. But, part of it is due to me needing to point-and-click for everything. In my quest to stop being horrible at front end work, I'd like to get better at design and faster at using Photoshop. I figure that I could increase my speed if I could use accessible keyboard shortcuts. I really want to stop having to go through the menu to add a new layer. So, is there a way to re-map/customize the shortcuts?
A common problem in Inkscape is that you want to select an object but another object always gets in the way because it completely obstructs the background object or because the two are too close together. Well Inkscape has the alt+click for this case. Unfortunately it about only works on Windows. There are solutions for Linux and Mac OS but at least for me nothing works. I decided to share my workaround here in a Q&A format, mainly because the Inkscape people broke their wiki (yeah, mail to the list to get an account for just one change, as if anybody would) but also because then others can share their maybe better solutions, too.