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I am having trouble finding help on my own since I do not know the names of these effects. Here's the reference image: How do I replicate the impressed circle effect behind the button? I tried playing with the inner shadow blending option with a radial gradient, but I failed to match the spherical depth shown in the image. I also tried using the bevel and emboss option, and while the produced effect is more accurate, I cannot duplicate the sharpness of the circle's edges, as well as the subtle highlight at its bottom. (I do not know how to add blending options to an emboss). How do I reproduce the shape of the actual button in Photoshop? I've found tutorials on orb-like buttons and flat, raised ones, but the button in the image has a depth and shape that is a combination of the two. (Similar to a flat pebble). If someone could lead to terms for these effects, that would be really helpful as well.
I've got a .psd that needs to be cut up for a site. There are multiple times where the artist uses solid-colored square blocks with an inner glow applied to it, and instead of cutting out each one as an image I'd rather just overlay the glow over solid colors. Is it possible to get a glow that goes from transparent to white instead of from a certain color to white?
I'm illustrating a radio button element. When unticked I want the element to be perceived as being "descended" into the page, with a inner shadow at the top and a inner glow at the bottom. The inner shadow does what I want to, adding a slight shadow in the top of the element, right beneath its border. The glow however is applied to the entire edge of the element, this is not what I want. As with the shadow only being in the top I want the glow to only be at the bottom. How do I achieve this the easiest way, can it be done in the same effects step (without having to rasterize or make new selections in the layer)? Edit: I've found that I can specify a inner glow in the bottom at the same time as I specify the inner shadow using the Brevel & Emboss effect. Then I could turn the shadow from B&E down to 0% opacity and only use the glow. It works, but it's not as "fool proof" as the drop shadow effect since you specify the angle in two dimensions in B&E whereas in drop shadow you only specify the angle in one dimension.
Hey i dont ussually work with photoshop, but i have many layers that i need make as PNG. I run that script, uncheck "visible layers only". And what i see in output folder is very weird. Its total mess. In one png image are two layers, sometimes one layer repeats many times and so on... And it never outputs so many files as it should. I have normal PSD file with ~30 layers and weights under 10MBs What could be a problem and maybe there is some workaround ??
I recently quite repetitively encounter the same problem - the fonts in photoshop don't look even close to the fonts embedded onto the websites. Obviously - it's mostly about external, 3rd party fonts, because for Helvetica, Arial, etc. I get quite good results. Most troublesome are thin and tall fonts, although this issue occurs also with regular fonts if used in sizes lower than 16px (no idea why so often there's a magical border at 16px since when stuff starts to look great everywhere). Here we've got an example of SkarpaLT font at 14px #000000 - on a left you can see it embedded using @font-face onto a website as it is rendered in Firefox on Windows 7. On a right you can see the exact same font in exact same color and size as it appears in photoshop using different anti-alias settings: As you see - the difference is quite gigantic. In Firefox: Whole font is by far thicker, seems like in photoshop it's light version, while in firefox it's regular Anti-aliasing is very weird, on some letters (eg. O) it almost doesn't exist, on other it's fine A is oddly short comparing to the other letters O isn't round As you can see - I tried messing with photoshop settings, but so far I never managed to pull out the results that are close to the Firefox. I also made few attempts with changing text in Firefox to make it look closer to what the Photoshop renders, but I got nowhere. Therefore two-part question: Is there any way designer can predict when font won't behave nicely in web browser, even if it looks fine in FireFox? How to either render fonts in photoshop in a way that's closer to a web browser, or force web browser to render fonts in a way that's closer to the photoshop? Or a long story short: How to design a websites using unconventional, thin fonts that will look good in a web browser? [edit:] Solution highlight: Seems like the only good solution is font dragr which allows testing of the fonts in a web browser to actually see if they don't produce any weird artefacts. Nothing much other than that can be done. On a side of the designs this action can be used to create subpixel anti-aliasing in Photoshop. It'll make fonts sharper and similar to what you get in a browser. Only issue is that it creates 3 text layers, so it needs to be applied after all of the text editing is done.
What do you call these simple, basic types of graphic elements that are used in infographic commercials, and the like? They are vector based, look like pixel art, but have smooth edges, and are icon-like but not icons. The example below is only a pallet of assets used in the short animated film Japan: The Strange Country. Anyone know what one might call these? Here's an example:
I've noticed that, when talking about accessibility, guidelines and articles often refer to web design, but only in rare occasions I've seen graphic design (print in particular) being targeted as well. What are some good guidelines to consider when designing for people with different impairments?
I find Frank & Oak's font simple and beautiful. Could someone please tell me what font this is?
The zipped PSD file that automatically downloads when you click this link (350 Perfect Icons -- brankic1979) consists of a high number of beautiful icon elements that were originally masked in photoshop. I want to be able to import vector files into After Effects eventually. The vector information IS in the PS file as a path, but importing from PS into AE will not retain vector functionality. So here's where I ended up: I opened the file in Illustrator. Created Objects From Layers from the box that popped up. I went through each layer and deleted the background of the mask. Now I'm left with the shape object paths, but each object/group is in a separate layer. When I select all, and try to apply a swatch, not only does it not work, but if I have some objects colored, they will lose that color, and go back to empty. SOMETHING is working, but in an "inverted" way, maybe? How can I fill in all these empty shapes on different layers with one color, all at once?
I am a beginner to indesign and can't work out why when I print my document onto an A4 sheet my background colour won't go to the edge of the page. My document when printed has an uneven white border (thicker at the bottom and thin on the sides and top). Even when I choose the print option (borderless A4) it still has an inch thick white border at the bottom. I don't mind if there is a border, I just want it even on all 4 sides or not one at all.
I am looking to create some graphics or logos that look and feel very much like that thicker colored construction paper in photoshop or illustrator cs6 Example here: http://dribbble.com/shots/908746-EOY-2012-Hot-Springs?list=users and here : http://dribbble.com/shots/133424-Marina?list=users Any thoughts here?
I'd like to arrange a few images like the following arrangement: Could someone guide me on how to do this in Photoshop? I am not sure whether it's related to perspective but I am not trying to achieve the look as in this thread i.e. the left side is shorter than the right side (and vice versa).
I use Radial Gradient in Inkscape. PROBLEM: Color at center of radiant is much darker than defined stop color, as shown by red arrow: How comes? How can I make the color at the center to be the one I want? I thought it was just fading too fast, so I added an intermediate stop with the same color, but as you can see it is really a different color.
Sometimes I want to quickly use a color that I see on a picture, website or program. I usually take a screenshot then open it in Gimp and use the "Color Picker" tool. Is there another way to do this in Gimp, without the screenshot step? Or is it a bad idea to begin with? I am on Linux, but I would appreciate a method that works on all platforms where GIMP is available.
Is there a simple way to create a 3D looking cardboard box to show off what some packaging might look like. Photoshop solutions would be helpful. I would like to be able to change the images on the sides.
I am trying to create the same infinity symbol like in this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFjBsVLZyhA I know how to use the width tool, but I don't know to create that path that the presenter of that video has already created in that document of Illustrator CS6. How to create the path for the infinity symbol shown in the video? EDIT: After following the steps in @Bart Arondson answer, this is my result. By the way, I am using Adobe Caslon Pro font.
For the last few years I've been lazy and suffering through a poorly managed workspace in all these programs. It all started when I upgraded to the Mac versions instead of the Windows versions I had on an old laptop. On Windows, the preferences came pretty much where I wanted but on Mac I don't know how to change these things. I've scoured the Internets and haven't found anything useful concerning these issues. 1) How do you stop floating all windows and lock everything to the sides of the content pane? On Windows this is out of the box but on Mac everything is floating and I can't figure out how to change it. This occurs in all programs and it's very annoying to have the scroll bar hidden under an open panel. 2) How to change the save as preferences for Ai? Whenever I use this option, it never remembers my last location and always takes me to root. Very annoying when I have a deep directory somewhere and need to save several versions or different images there. 3) How to organize the file open/save as browser in Ai? In Ps, I can arrange the files displayed according to kind, date, etc. In Ai I can't and it's a jumbled mess every time I try to open or save anything. 4) In PS and FW, how do you get more canvas real estate? I have to work at a very close zoom sometimes and if I'm working near the bottom of the document I can't get it to the center of the screen because it won't let me go below the canvas. In Ai, I can move the canvas to the center where it is more comfortable for me to work with. I can't do this with the other programs and it's flush with the bottom of the screen. Very annoying. Thanks for the help.
I want to identify this font in the safehost.net logo. Can anyone assist please?
I often get designs from our artists which contain large complicated images that can be turned into a background-color, some tiling, and overlaid smaller images. The problem is, doing this often takes quite a while and adds complexity to the html structure. How should I decide wether it is worth doing? For example, the following is a button / mouseover: All the buttons in an atlas take up a whopping 232kb*. I can get this down to 40kb by using a background color and overlaying the following: top gradient (horizontal) bottom gradient (vertical) text photo outline glow for mouse over But then instead of 1 html element the button would take up several. In addition, I would have to spend several more hours to cut everything out and do the html/css. So, as a new web developer, are there any guidelines for when to split images up vs just using the whole thing? Based on size/difference, time taken, and additional DOM complexity added? In this specific case, at least extracting the glow seems like an obvious decision, as it only adds one element and halves the number of images. *I'm fairly new to web development from non-web programming and may be wrong, but 200+ kb seems massive for just some of the art assets.
I just installed Photoshop CS6 for the first time (after coming from CS5). I tried taking a screenshot of a website I like to sample the blue color in the screenshot, but as soon as I paste it in Photoshop the colors become extremely dull. I've included the website behind the screenshot in photoshop so you can see how terribly different the blues look. My settings are completely stock, RGB 8 bit. I'm not used to having to mess with color profiles just to get a screenshot to look okay in PS. Does anybody have some insight for me? Greatly appreciated!
I designed a vector in Adobe Illustrator CS6, but when saved as an .eps file, white vertical lines appear in my gradient. image http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/772/28292306.png What is happening? I've tried rasterizing the vector at 300 PPI with anti-aliasing, but the edges look jagged (but I really want to keep it as a vector anyway) Does anyone have any idea what I could do? Additional info: The lines appear when I place the .eps file into Photoshop. When I open it in Illustrator though, it is as smooth as a baby's behind. I saved it in Illustrator EPS CS6.
I'm receiving a mysterious error when printing a .PDF. The exact message it prints out (wrong linebreaks) is: ERROR: undefinedresult OFFENDING COMMAND: itransform STACK: 2380.1 3366.1 I've already accepted the error and offending command specifications are too general to be of any help. What I'm wondering about is the STACK details. What is it? Could it give any help whatsoever?
I've been using the same set of photographic portraits in my mockups for a long time, and I'm looking for a more extensive set of square, male and female avatars/photos (portraits). What are good sets to use?
I am working on a trademark that utilizes a leaf. I translated the leaf into a vector shape but need to remove all of the jagged edges and make it smooth. Any suggestions?
I'm starting my education in Graphic Design soon (once I finish my current degree) and I'm pretty much immersed myself information in preparation including textbooks that I will be using and websites (like this one) to improve my knowlege base. I also work at a retail store where I do graphic design on a daily basis in the print shop. Which has helped me in figuing out what I can and can't do and how long it takes me to complete a task. The one hurdle that I'm facing right now is the ability for me to come up with layouts for designs and to be able to visualize compositions. I know that most of this will come with practice, my friends who have completed thier degrees have said that layout and composition are pretty straight forward and there are plenty of resources to learn or get inspired on how to layout graphics. What are some of these resources? There are no books that I can find at my local library or Barney Nobo as thier graphic arts/design sections are very limiting. I have purchased the Layout Index, but I find the book really....dated. I can kind of see what they are trying to do with the book, but all of the layouts that are in the book don't really inspire me. Are there better places that explain layout? Perhaps mathematically? I do really well with math. I also ask for print media specifically because there's already a good question asked about web layout.
Does anyone know of any font families that 6, 9, 8, 0 look exactly the same upside down as right side up? The 6 upside down would look like 9 and vice-verse. Thanks!
I want to make a "deal" or "hot" sticker that is effectively a glossy-looking circle with spikey edges and some text inside like "Great Deal!". I'm not very skilled at Photoshop, so specifically: How can I make the circle have spikey edges? How can I give it a glossy finish? Is there anything else I should do for the sticker effect?
I'm a logo designer, and I'm working in a company. As a result of I'm an employee all typefaces are available for free to be used in my work and licensed to my company. Recently I'm working as a freelancer, and I need a lot of typefaces to create several logos. I need a site that can allow me to purchase a bulk of typefaces (100 or more) for commercial purposes, for a good price.
I have indesign cs6 and a table with 2 rows and 5 cols and some horizontal and vertical merges. If I try to define the cell style from the cell style menu I cannot set the inner strokes. Because of this I do in this way: Create the table like I've said before Select the 2 rows and it will appear a box divided in 4 parts with inner edges. Here I select the inner edges and set some way Then the outter edges and set another way I click on the cell style while selecting the cells and I click "Redefine style" After sometime it appears a + after the name style, and I cannot click the "Redefine style" again. Don't know why... This is the first problem. Now I also have another table with cells styled this way and keeps a border to the right that wasn't supposed to be there. Do you know anyway to work clearly with cells and border and don't get the + after the style without changing anything...? thanks (:
I need to make a logo for an old age home, but I've had trouble selecting a font. It needs to be friendly, but not too cartoony. Does anyone have a good font idea? This is the logo (it is WIP, and my first Logo :( ) Logo concept http://i.imagebanana.com/img/5answqdr/senioren.jpg
I was wondering when you create a typeface do you stick to specific widths and proportions for certain letters. If so how do you got about this other than all b/d/p/q etc widths being the same how would you go about this.
Meet Pluralsight. We are a group of serious developers. We are also committed to creating the best training available. This mix of training for developers, by developers is what rings true to our customers. We call it hardcore developer training. You'll know it as superior training that is relevant and pushes all the latest technologies. Is there any service like this but for design?
I dont have an artistic background, so when I start school soon, I don't really know what I'm going to need and what I'm not going to need. I'm trying to prepare as much as I can before starting and get some supplies I will need while I have the money to do so right now. For those that have gone to school for graphic design, what are some tools that I will undoubtedly need? And when I say tools, I'm not talking software or skill sets, I'm talking more along the lines of craft supplies. If you've graduated or are currently in school, what supplies did/do you need when starting out?
How many colours at once can one pixel contain? Is there a tool that can represent this pixel in a form of HTML colour codes? (And if there are many colours in this pixel, can this tool show the order of how colours are distributed all over the pixel - it's like 4 colours in a pixel and it says that colour #NNNNNN is placed first on the left, then second is on the right and so on - or in any other explanation)*
I am attempting to create beautiful hi-res graphics for Android notifications, but am running into some issues. In Jelly Bean, there is a new place for large icons (see the notification design guidelines here) on the left side of the notification banner (see below #2 Large icon): All of the stock Android icons are beautiful and hi-res, but unfortunately the icons I have been creating in illustrator/photoshop do not look as crisp on the hi-res display. My files are 96 x 96px, but I am concerned that this isn't the right size for hi-res icons, and I haven't found any good info anywhere regarding the best sizing for these. Any help is greatly appreciated!
I have a client who is pushing the use of very literal imagery for her website: waving hands for success, a finishing line for the end of a process, and so on. We're trying to make more use of indirect imagery, partly to support the brand but also to encourage deeper engagement. Is there any research available to show the relative merits of both approaches?
In my recent project, playing with responsive web design, I've noticed that ampersand in my text landed at the beginning of a line with certain page widths. I personally find it a bit ugly... I can put a non-breaking space between the word and ampersand to fix this. Is there a typographic rule about ampersand placement with regards to beginning and end of line?
I spend a fair amount of time drawing diagrams of software architecture which usually consist of variations on boxes connected with arrows. Whilst these diagrams convey the relevant information, they often leave much to be desired from the perspective of aesthetics. Some examples of software architecture diagrams which demonstrate this: http://applicationarchitecture.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/f0039-component-diagram-complete-component-model.png http://applicationarchitecture.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/f0022-sample-network-diagram.png I've trawled through hundreds of infographics to find inspiration but most tend to consist of discrete visual elements related only by the overall concept and gestalt principles. The few that contain arrows to depict some kind of flow tend to be much simpler than my needs. The one (non-software) example I have found (http://visual.ly/house-democrats-health-plan-flow-chart) suffers (perhaps deliberately to demonstrate complexity) from a lot of the same problems as the above... Are there any examples out there of aesthetically pleasing software architecture diagrams, or at least infographics which show complex process flows which would be useful inspiration?
I have an Illustrator document, which has a text field with a number. How do I print X copies of it, so each copy has a different sequential number on it, say from 0000 to X ?
I have a list [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] and in the paragraph style is set that the number [1, 2, 3, 4...] is of character style A. Now I set a variable for the character style A and it doesn't show up the number as expected. If I set some text with the character style A it works as expected. The problem is only when the character style is in a list number.... I've found: "The Running Header (Character Style)" variable will only find a character style that has been applied manually or is part of a standard nested style. It will not detect character styles that are part of a nested line style, GREP style, or any character style used to style the numbers in a numbered list." Anyway to workaround this issue? The objective of all of this is the following: Each chapter has a letter and each chapter has various sub-chapters, that I think are named sections, which looks like this G1, where the G is the chapter and 1 is the section... Then there are the pages that starts at each section so: G1 1, G1 2, G1 3, G2 1, G2 2...
Can anyone identify this font? I've tried on identifont and on WhatTheFont but I can't find anything. It's the slanted 'e' and the ampersand that really stump me.
I came across these business cards on a blog, what i cant work out is how did they manage to print the cards with such a fine hairline white board close to the edge. Normaly when you'd print something like this you'd spec a bleed and the idea of that is that the bleed will get cut off, but because they are cut on mass the cut mark can differ up to a couple of a mill from card to card. How did they manage to do this while leaving such a fine, and also even border all around the card ? I could image doing this were you'd spec a white border to the bleed and it would come back with the white on only 2 sides out of the 4..
Fontshop.com used to have (at least I think it was them) a index of typefaces that you could use visual / structural specifics to search through their library of typefaces. It gave options for things like letter width, stroke thickness, serif or sans-serif, axis, among others. After entering in all the information it would show you a list of all the typefaces that fit within the specified parameters. Does anyone know what that was called? Does it still exist? Where can I find it? Is there a similar utility somewhere else? Addendum: The Type Navigator is exactly it. Thanks, and I had forgotten about Identifont and you are right it is not specifically what I wanted. It may serve my purposes. I am not good with names of typefaces and so being able to use characteristics such as uniform stroke-width and the style of the "g", geometic, and all the other things that Type Navigator allowed you to search for. Identifont has many similar things but it misses some things that I consider key. If anyone has any other suggestions for a tool similar to Type Navigator or Identifont please let me know somehow. Thank you.
I'm using FontCreator 6.5 professional. I have two fonts in the same family, and in "naming" I've given them the same Font Family Name, and in Subfamily one is called Regular and the other is called Italic. But when I drag the two .ttf files to the Fonts folder in windows, only the Italic one is listed, and they aren't combining. But if I delete the Italic version from Fonts, all of the sudden the Regular shows up. I've checked in FontCreator and they each have a Unique Font Identifier. What can I do to get Windows to see them as two versions of the same font?
I'm trying to create a business card template for my work and I wanted to add text to the file giving instructions on how to use the template. How do I create text that won't print once the file is ready?
My sad story In the much maligned post-CS3 smart guides, there are some known problems. This Adobe forums thread is a good example. That was all very helpful but my problem is a little different. I primarily use the Construction Guides feature and I often enter some odd ball numbers that I've derived from one geometry or another (like the example here). A very basic example is if I want to use 30° angles, like so: Notice that I turn those pesky Alignment Guides off -- it's a matter of preference. In the new system (post-CS3), I have to hold command to make my Construction Guides show up. Dumb UX, but I'm a big boy, I can handle it. My trouble is, the angles don't always show up. In fact, when this happens I'm often completely unable to revive them without a restart of Illy. On the other hand, the alignment counterparts are always happy to turn on ... even though I don't want them. There are other times when I do get Construction Guides but only for 45° angles, regardless of what I change them to. They act more like their alignment counterparts but without the spastic guessing lighting up my screen. In both cases, a restart of Illustrator usually corrects things. But this happens a lot. And those silly Alignment Guides are always happy to pop to life. Getting to the point Can anyone confirm that this is a bug, or my system is messed up, or I'm just not qualified to use this fancy new software? I do so love jumping back to CS3 when I need truly Smart Guides. I'm on Illustrator CS5 v15.1.0 running in Mac OS X 10.7.3.
Here's a basic list of what I did to the document before I sat down at the computer tonight: Customized a gradient Applied the gradient to the image in the usual way (mouse stroke), in its own layer Saved the file (as a .psd) Now, it is sometime later. I'm opening it up on a different computer and what I'm trying to do is edit the way that gradient appears on the photo. I tried selecting the layer with the gradient in it and then selecting the gradient tool to attempt to edit it, but the gradient tool does not show me the current gradient (what with all my customizations), as I would have expected. I'm trying to avoid re-creating this gradient again from scratch since all I really want to do is change the color and orientation slightly. It's not the most complicated of gradients, but starting over would lead to me spending an hour tweaking things to get them just right again. I've got other things to work so, in the meantime, I thought I'd see if any of you guys knew what to do.
I am trying to resize my logo for the web but so far I have not been seeing the result that I want to. It was in a vector format first (AI) and then it was converted to PSD. I then used the image resize option to resize it. This is how my logo looks in Photoshop: This is how my logo looks on my website when I remove the background and place it on my website It seems a bit pixelated. It does not have the sharp and crispy look I would expect it to have. I am wondering if there is a way to preserve the crispy sharp look of the logo even at that small size.
I am a programmer and have recently started playing with Photoshop in my spare time. Ideally, I prefer to create components using HTML/CSS only, but there are times when it is not possible. In this Toolbar PSD Comp, many of the effects are convertible to CSS3, but there are a couple of Bevel/Emboss effects as well as an Outer Glow that cannot be converted to CSS3. In such cases, usually the PSD is sliced into smaller pieces that can be combined back together in HTML/CSS to create the component. How would you slice this comp?
I'd like to add textual notes to a Photoshop file, like the notes you can write when preparing a power point, not seen by the end user but only by the presenter. I need to add quick notes about the layers, instead of having to flesh the whole idea or forget what it was all about. Is this possible?
I'm experimenting with "green screen" techniques to remove the background around a test subject. The test shots were taken in front of a bright green background in moderate to bright lighting conditions. I am using the GIMP "select by color" to try to select and remove the green background. The issue that I am seeing is that there seems to be a greenish fuzz or color spill around everyone in the photo. The range of brightness is quite wide, so I'm finding I have to select many times in an attempt to get rid of this. Worse still, I am having trouble removing this spill at all when it interacts with light colored hair. When I try to select some of the green, it starts selecting significant portions of the picture that I want to keep, mainly hair. Is there a way to deal with this problem, or am I doing something wrong?
I need a free PDF file editor, where i can easily add or delete something inside a PDF file. I have searched a lot on Google but can't find any good software for this purpose. If you know of one, please tell me.
I've been trying to convert the font M+ 2p with fontsquirrel, and I have searched their website about the converter's limitations, but, no matter what I do, it seems their converter hangs on 0% conversion progress for this particular font. Is there any other tool, similar to fontsquirrel, that I can use to convert these? If possible, with similar font optimizations... Thanks in advance. This font is free and available at http://mplus-fonts.sourceforge.jp/mplus-outline-fonts/download/index-en.html.
I'm playing with a logo and I'd like to be able to use the font outlines to create the basic symbol. For example, I'm trying to create new leaf utilizing a slab serif font. What is the best way to approach this problem?
How can I make my vector graphics anti-aliased in illustrator? My paths always turn out jagged. Is there an option like in Adobe Fireworks to smoothen[remove the jaged edges] my paths?
I have a peculiar design for a web page that I have to implement from an already made design, and some of the text wrappings are filled bottom-up (in my case it's for bottom-left aligned thin text inside colored square tiles, looks better than it sounds). That is, in a block of text that wraps across multiple lines, the bottom line is filled first (horizontally), so that any remaining horizontal space after wrapping is left for the first line. Is this a known kind of text wrapping and how could I implement it in a web page without manually adding line-breaks in the source text? Or could you at least name that "feature" so that I could google it? Edit: For example, in the text "Here be the link" if there is not enough room on one line then the line should be rendered as "Here \n be the link" instead of the standard "Here be the \n link", where "\n" is a line break.
Sometimes I need to save the Photoshop files i'm working on as .pdf, but there is a huge problem with the .pdf export on my computer. For example here is a brochure design draft. It looks great in Photoshop: When i export the .psd to .pdf (with the Save as... command), the result looks like this: The rasterized image layers are OK, but the vector objects (logo) and the texts... horrible. Has anyone met this problem?
For branding matters, I need to use tahoma as a display font (for all headlines). I know, I know, it's a body text font meant only for screens: I don't really have a choice there. I am having a hard time finding a body font to pair it with. Even though tahoma is a sans-serif font, it has this slabbish look I find it hard to deal with. I have tried a number of combinations already, but none satisfied me. I thought maybe your sharp-eyed experts can suggest me some. No need for a screenshot, just a bunch of font names will be more than helpful. Thank you. PS: I realize this is not like most of the questions we get here. If you think I should rephrase it or know how to improve it, please let me know.
Looked it up on The Cow, but the answer was very vague so I'm probably not doing it right: I have about 200 icons I want to randomly disperse amongst the comp and have move organically. How can I use particular to have the particles use multiple sources / layers / sprites, so we can see all of the icons using only one emitter? Thanks!
In Adobe InDesign, I have placed a pink image that I brought in from Photoshop. The below screenshot is how the pink looks like in Mac Preview (I'm on Mountain Lion). I wanted to add some lines to that background, so I whipped something up in Illustrator. The result was as I expected: But then I decided to turn down the opacity of the stripes. All of a sudden, the exported PDF has a much darker and subdued pink background: I then removed the transparency effect, and the bright pink came right back. I later found that if I applied any effect to an element on top of my pink background, the pink changes from "bright pink" to "dark pink". Why is this the case? I don't know if this is related, but in InDesign, the pink is dark as well. When I export it as a PDF, however, the bright pink comes back (and looks the same as in the PSD file). Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated!
I am trying to adjust colors after I apply a 3D effect (say extrude & bevel) in Adobe Illustrator (I tried in CS2 and CS5) but even if I make the object's color white it turns into fairly dark gray after the effect; I cannot make it lighter. I tried to play with shading but no luck. I understand there should be shading and color change to show the 3D effect but the change is quite extreme. Can anybody give me suggestions on how to preserve the colors with 3D effect in Illustrator?
I've been happily employed for awhile now, so I've not kept up on various trends and changes in the online portfolio field. I would like to remedy this knowledge gap. I can do a search for "best online portfolio sites" but a search like that is a little tainted by people who want you to buy their solution. If you've made a portfolio site for yourself or a client, what are you using? It seems to me that you can use a service like Behance (but are there other services that are equal or better in terms of features, ease of use, ads, etc.?), adapt a theme to a blog/CMS WordPress or Tumblr, or build something from scratch. If it's necessary to narrow the scope of the question a bit, I'd say that the ideal portfolio site looks modern but not trendy, has a great user experience, and is easy to update. Preferably, it can be self-hosted, unless people have found that going on a dedicated social network is better. It'd be interesting to hear answers from graphic designers who don't code a lot as well as web designers who do it for a living.
I have a text variable for paragraph style A. The book is like this: ch1_00, ch1_01, ch1_02. ch1_00 contains the chapter cover, and I want to put here the text variable based on the words contained in the ch1_00 document. All those documents are contained in a book. So I would like to get the variable to work in the ch1_01, ch1_02 too. How can I do this?
I've seen this tutorial http://philippaberrysmith.wordpress.com/2011/09/09/how-to-get-page-numbering-to-start-where-you-want-it-in-indesign-cs5/ but after turning off the page shuffle option when I try to insert a page between 2 sections strange things occures such as adding a third page to a 2-page spread or adding the new spread but the page is on the right instead of left thanks for help (:
Is there a way (a setting or a shortcut) in InDesign to reset a character style to None after the end of a paragraph? Paragraph styles have the option for Next Style, but this does not apply to character styling. Currently I'm using Quick Apply (ctrl+return+None) after each paragraph to reset the character style, but it is very time consuming if you have many lines with two or more different character styles. NOTE: I'm using character styling because as far as I know you cannot have two different paragraph styles on the same line. See screenshot below for use example.
I want to create a web page mockup to show a client, does Photoshop elements allow you to create layered pages?
I have a client that requires me to submit at least a homepage of my proposed website design. However, I just recently known that he already contacted some other freelancers who incidentally are my known friends. They did the same but after that they are not contacted anymore. So my thoughts are, maybe this client just wish to compile every design then might give it to a cheaper freelancer. Do you think I need a NDA to protect my design?
as you can see in image the rectangle has this boxy look, I was trying to get same look on my play button, but it always turned out wrong, can anyone please edit the image and give that play button same boxy look? or at least reference somewhere where it show's how its done.
I want to display a text over a video. However, the video may include any color from white to black. What is the best text effect (color/stroke/shadow/glow ... etc) that can be applied on the text so that it will be very clear on any background color.
Assuming that there are no restrictions like the ratio of a screen; what is an eye pleasing ratio for presentation slides and handouts (containing information about the presentation)? Is it something to consider or negligible? Can it be generalized?
I am about to hire a Graphic Designer to help my Web-design company. Besides for designing websites, she will be making Logos and Advertisments. Now, she tells me that it is standard practice for her to retian the Adobe files used to create images and photos. She is happy that I should own the finished jpgs and such but she is reluctant to give me the Adobe files to play with myself. This bothers me because sometimes for web design I want to change something myself and that wont be possible because I wont have access to the Adobe psd's etc. Secondly, will my clients not expect to get the Adobe files along with the Logo and Ad? What is the standard practice with this thing?
I have been researching about graphic design trends and its evolution. Can someone please suggest a particular book or website about this subject?
The problem is that when I'm using small enough brush, it seems I can't have anything else than a crosshair. For example, if I'm using brush of size 4px and I'm in 25% zoom. Nothing wrong with crosshairs, but when I'm outlining fine details while zoomed out to get the proportions right the crosshair kind of blocks the part of the image I'm most interested in: the part where I'm drawing (so I guess theres "something" wrong with crosshairs after all..) CapsLock, funny enough, will change the crosshair.. into another type of crosshair. Ha ha, Adobe, good one. Almost good enough to make me angry. I have both; "Show Crosshair in Brush Tip" and "Show Only Crosshair While Painting" unchecked. When painting/drawing with Photoshop I've always liked the "Full Size Brush Tip" the best. Normal Brush Tip is fine as well, and the crosshair works only when the brush is actually bigger than whats shown on the screen. This has been a problem for long while, so if a solution would take rise, it would be highly appreciated! Thank you.
I'm a newbie in the freelancer world. I started creating logos and business cards and I show it to my customers. Well, I always face a problem how to present my work in a professional and a nice way. I need to know how to do a prototype print of a business card. Same as the image here, please tell me all the details I need to present it same as the image, I don't mean the work of the business card, I'm asking about the presentation itself.
My gradient tool on Illustrator cs6 is blocked. It won't let me change color, direction or anything related. The Gradient tool wont even let me click on the gradient, it shows the cursor with a blocked sign(circle and a diagonal line inside of it). Seems very trivial a problem but I can't get to fix it. Did google the issue but to no avail. Please do help.
There is something similar to Microsft Word Text Styles, in Adobe InDesign and Illustrator? For example I choose: "Style 1", for many paragraphs, and then I can change the font of all of them at once?
Everytime I open an image in photoshop, it locks the image. Its slightly annoying and wonder if there is an option to prevent this Thanks for the help
When I add a new column to a table in InDesign CS6 and I click into a new created cell it has a + in the style name. When I hover over the style it shows: "Overrides(alt+click to clear): (align: flush left)". This means that the new cell is aligned left instead of maintaining the original style, which is center aligned. Why is this happening and how can I fix it? thanks (:
I've been battling this question for a while now. It will sound very trivial I'm sure to an experienced Illustrator user but I've found it extremely hard finding any relevant info regarding it. All info I find about how to use the gradient tool is regarding either shapes or text and it can't be applied to my problem. See in the image below to see the boiled down version of my problem. What I have is an ellipse shape and a path inside that ellipse. The path combined with the shape creates an area. Now, I want to add a gradient to that area, without having to close the endpoints of the path. How would I go about doing this?
I wonder if there is a way to ask photoshop to save for web and devices using the default options, and save two or tree mouse clicks each time.
I couldn't find any simple resource saying how to make Adobe Indesign tables of contents interactive, so that each item in the electronic version of the exported PDF is a live hyperlink / cross reference that jumps straight to the appropriate page.
I'm an amateur graphic designer, however I do know the importance of presentation in any product or service. I was wondering if there are any preset Indesign templates or rules of thumb on how to present logo concepts, including color palette and some identity design.
I was reading The Non-Designer's Design Book by Robin Williams and was very impressed how on almost every page, Ms. Williams seems to "pull out" some beautiful typeface which I've never heard of. I'm not a design professional, but this got me wondering: Where do professional designers find their typefaces? Any books you can buy with nothing but type samples? Certain websites which are commonly used by "the pros"?
I'm really more of a Photoshop person--so I know exactly how to do this technique in Photoshop but can't for the life of me figure it out in Illustrator! Here's what I'm trying to do. I have multiple paths that form a compass design. I have now drawn a rectangular shape over the compass and would like to use a "soft light" blending mode on it so that it can give the appearance of highlights on the compass below. This is my problem: the soft light layer needs to act like a clipping mask; It should only be applying "soft light" to the compass. I can't figure out how to do that. Let me know if any additional clarification would help. Thanks!
I'm currently using Photoshop CS6, and I have an image with three layers: One layer is the background layer. Another layer is a simple shape (star) layer. And a third layer is a set of text that I imported from Adobe Illustrator into the picture. What I would like to do is break apart the smart object layer (two words) and spread it out (and mark that as a keyframe). Then bring it back together in another. (second keyframe) Here's the problem: I created two frames in the timelime feature by duplicating the frame. I selected one frame and double clicked on the smart object in the layer browser. I made the adjustment to the word object in Illustrator and save. I went back to Photoshop and now BOTH frames are now adjust to how I don't want it to be. Am I doing something wrong?
I know how to run a batch resize based on fixed width, height, or percentage... but what if I have a number of photos of all different sizes and shapes and I want them to be roughly the same size visually? I am using photoshop, but could try fireworks or some other thing, but hopefully nothing too complex. I guess this would mean the same number of pixels in each image (as in the example image), but there may be a better ways of determining. Max-height and max-width constraints on a percentage resize would probably suffice here as well.
I have a number of images that have all the same background but each has different text overlaid (they are covers of a magazine journal). I don't have access to the background image, but I know that I can create a composite of the covers and get the background that way. I can do this manually with a photo-editing program by moving from layer to layer but I'm wondering if there's a tool or filter that automates this (ideally one I can use in Gimp, since I don't have Photoshop).
Sometimes shapes would have parameters like a stoke or rounded corners, but once the shape is drawn, I can't find how to see or change these parameters. Ideas?
How to make to tables in InDesign to flow horizontally (in other words be side-by-side and not one after the other like normally happens)? I would need to put 2 tables like this: |----| |----| | | | | |----| |----| Instead of: |----| | | |----| |----| | | |----| I intend to maintain the header cells on both pages (when it breaks). I also intend to export the data at some point, so table nesting is not desirable. How to do it without an extra table? thanks a lot!
Consider there is a website full of text, and someone asks you to design a poster from it. Which methods do you suggest for designing this poster? Update: the website is "Semantic Version Specification" (semver.org) . i should design a poster from it.
This feels more like a Super User question than Graphic Design, but I figure someone here will be more likely to know the answer. Using InDesign 5, I have a "book" collection that I use to keep a bunch of files in one place. Apparently at some point I opened up and modified two of the files apart from the book file, yielding this little warning: My question is, how do I get rid of the warning, short of removing the file from the book and reinserting it? I figured there has to be a better way. I would have assumed that opening the file from the book, editing, and saving would have reset it, but that hasn't been the case.
When I create a 2D text, its really unsharp. Doyou guys might know what to do? p.s I mean the 'ripples' around the text. High res image: http://gyazo.com/1a80c0ed88b1d54098279af4985ec060 Lower res preview:
What I'm trying to do is change the color of the following image to something around #21190E. I've tried using the Hue/Saturation, Color Replacer, etc. tools, but none worked well. Do I change the current color to another so that I can get the results I want? .
I've had this issue with Photoshop where some dark blues are displayed in black on Photoshop if I'm in RGB mode and selecting dedicated graphics in the performance preferences. If I don't select dedicated graphics or change to CMYK the issue gets fixed although I would like to be able to work in RGB mode and have the dedicated graphics on. What can I do?
I could probably figure out how to do one, but I have to do like, 30 of these and I want to learn how to make it quick and painless. My first thought was using Live Trace in Illustrator, but I'm not terribly good at that yet. Essentially I want streets to be in black (and at similar relative thickness) and the rest of the map to be white. A good answer can simply be a link to a tutorial that I haven't been able to find via a Google search (if the tutorial gives me the right information). I'm quite sure I'm leaving out some information you need to know, so please ask for clarification in comments. Preferred software is either Photoshop or Illustrator CS6. How can I create a stylised, outlined map?
This is well in the realm of "it doesn't really matter" or "whatever looks best", I know, but I was curious as to whether or not there was a generally accepted convention about this (or a well-supported opinion). Should the right padding/margin of a list more or less mirror what you do on the left side (first two bullet points below)? Or should it go all the way to the normal margin (second two bullet points)? I only ask because I was working with a document today where the bullet point ended up sticking out further than the paragraphs above and below due to now they were ragged, but I'm working with limited vertical space and don't want to take another line on this particular list item.
In this site I found one logo which might be made in Adobe Illustrator: It's a perfect 3D logo, how can this kind of logo be made with Illustrator?.
I need the following image turned into a pattern that would repeat in the y-axis only. How can I make it repeat smoothly (so it actually looks like it's a pattern)? Thanks!
I'm looking to record an action that will set guides in a 3x3, 5x5, 3x5 and 5x3 grid on my canvas in equal partitions, but I want it to be able to work for any document size. I'm interested in doing this in InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop. Is there a way to do this? A script I can install?
I am a software developer and new at logo design. I want to make a logo for my application based on its name, but I prefer to not use Adobe Illustrator or similar tools. The ideal for me would be a site that I enter a word and choose from a list of decorations and let the site create a logo for me. Lets say like the old Word Art in Microsoft Word but a little more sophisticated. Do you have any ideas about?