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How can we fix this extra exposure at the bottom of the vase in the attached picture
I manage to stroke a path so that the brush goes thin -> thick -> thin along a path. Thing is though that I want the stroke to go thick -> thin, meaning I want the stroke to start at its thickest and then go thinner and thinner along the path. I can't seem to figure this out using the Brush shape dynamics.
I have document DA with master page MB that is based on master page MA. In another document DB I load the master pages from DA. The master page MB is shifted down, the items shifted down are the ones inherited from MA and not the ones on master page MB. If in DB I click on mast page MB options and I set to be based on none, click ok, then set to be based on master page MA then it's everything ok... It might be because when it loads/syncs master pages it loads the master page MB before MA. I think is this because only happens in one document and I cannot reproduce the error in another, even if I copy paste everything from mine to a new one. Also updated the bleeds and the error cannot be reproducible. Also if I create another master page MC that inherit from MA the same error happens, so the problem is in the master page MA and I don't know what to do. I cannot just create another master because it will not keep in sync my other documents in the book.
I'm struggling to find a matching blue colour for this red one I've got: #cf3a1b By 'matching' I mean similar feel, in terms of brightness, contrast, lighting etc... I'm new to graphic design so I don't really know how to find similar colours.
In Inkscape, is there a way to automatically calculate the space / area a shape occupies? I am representing data in complex shapes and I need a way to scale them accordingly.
all. So I have a curving path in Illustrator and I've put some text on it using the "Type on Path" tool. I want to make the font size of that text gradually increase towards the middle and then gradually decrease again towards the end. Any ideas on how to do this?
I'm starting a project and want to have customized coffee mugs for people who support the project. I've never designed anything for a coffee mug before and am unsure of the typical standards. I know that print design is typically 300dpi, etc (I haven't done print design in forever, so it could have changed.) But are there any standard dimensions, dpi, and colors for coffee mug printing? I don't really know how they print onto a coffee mug, so I'm very unsure of how to create it. I need large portions of transparent parts for my ideal design. I'd like to just set up a wide graphic in photoshop, much like I would create a texture for a cup in 3DS Max. So, summary of the question: What dimensions, color mode(CMYK?), and other graphical considerations do I need to design for? Is there any kind of PSD template for a cup wrap? And for a bonus, do "cup printers(?)" print inside of cups as well? How would I create a template for that?
I have a PNG, not PSD. It's size 29 x 126 but i want change this to 29 x 220px. What is good solution for this? Image: https://i.stack.imgur.com/sk3zy.jpg
I am looking for a way to get RYB complementary colors in software. This means, complementary color pairs I am looking to get would be: red - green yellow - violet blue - orange However, when inverting an image in RGB mode, you get the calculated RGB opposite, like: red - cyan yellow - blue blue - yellow For example inverting blue (red 0%, green 0%, blue 100%) gives yellow (red 100%, green 100%, blue 0%). Doing the same calculation in a RYB color system gives me the values I'd like, for example with blue, that would be: orange (red 100%, yellow 100%, blue 0%). Is there any way to get complementary colors according to a RYB color system in imaging software? (Answers can be software specific, but probably any technique to do so might be transferable, unless it's a plugin or something the like dealing with the calculation.)
I have no idea what they call this so I'm not having much success with searching. But lets start with an example with this site: Image from pixden.com Does anybody know how to create this and if it is possible in Adobe illustrator?
I'm interested in getting an method for obtaining n well-distinguishable colours, where n is just a given number. The purpose is for it to be implemented in an algorithmic way. I have read other questions on this topic (this, this, this and this), but none of them provides an self-contained way how to generate the colours. (They, in general, say: "Go to this website and put n there as input.") As well, I know that I can equally distribute the hues of the colours, but then: Good balancing between number of different hues and number of different saturations and lightnesses is necessary (and I don't know how to make it well). The same distance in hue doesn't mean the same distance for a human: In the example, certainly the left one is less recognizable than the right one, yet the colours are only some RGB permutations.
I'd like to know what type of path the curved text commonly seen in logos takes. For example, consider the following logos (all pulled of a recent Google search): Part of each logo is curved. In each case it appears that the curve is not along the path of a circle. It looks like it could be either a parabola or a hyperbolic sine, though I can't tell by eye. Presumably they used some graphic design software that rendered the image, so a correct answer can cite the practices of common software to achieve this effect.
I want to build on my Photoshop performance and a key solution would be to learn the shortcuts for Photoshop. That said does anyone know a reliable place to get Photoshop CS5 and CS6 shocrtcuts listed?? EDIT The shortcut to the shortcut list is Alt+Shift+Ctrl+K Also upon review thanks to @John. In Illustrator CS4, CS5 and CS6 also has the shortcut list and the shortcut list is in CS4, CS5 and CS6, too.
I've heard of different methods in getting a nice highlight on the top of a button. Can some of you explain a preferred fx for the example here? Along side the nice highlight on the top of the button, can you explain how each button is tastefully differentiated? http://dribbble.com/shots/391714-Archivme-iPad-app-iOS?list=searches&tag=buttons
I've heard from a bird that when you save in JPEG, you will always have terrible quality photos. But, I frequently see photographers post amazing photography on the web. I shoot in RAW, edit my photos, then save as JPEG and my photo looks very washed out, loses warm colors, etc. How can I save my photos for web-viewing without it looking awful?
Just out of curiosity. I know it's designed by Stanley Donwood. It looks like Futura with the M reaching slightly below the baseline.
In my computer science studies we are being forced to write a report every now and then. I have a background in web development and have worked closely with both print and web designers for many years so I know the importance of setting type and communicating messages in either good or bad ways. When we hand in our reports to teachers and professors they usually want the text to be justified with "single line-height". They do not mention anything about the lengths of each line and how many characters it should contain. This means that all the students hand in 120 chars per line in 12pt Times New Roman with 14pt leading, justified. Of course these reports are unreadable for several reasons, the length of the lines and the rivers (seas more like it) of whitespace floating around in the text are just a few. Since I have a background working with designers and I love nice typography I refuse to hand in a report looking like that. A problem that I have though is that I do not own a copy of InDesign, nor do I have the time to kern, change and space out characters and words if I would own a copy. I could of course, use Google Drive's or Word's "justify" feature and use 60-70 chars at each line but to me it still doesn't feel right when looking at all the whitespace in the body of text. Since I've been doing a lot of web development I've also learned to avoid the CSS attribute that handles justification of text. Until now I have simply used Google Drive with line length at 70-80 chars with 11pt Cambria as body with 14pt leading. My headers are in 14pt and 18pt Droid Sans with 16pt and 22pt leading. I've kept my text left aligned and tried to get rid of the worst jaggedness on the right side using hyphenation and I've been pretty happy with it. I've started reading more about justified text though to be able to defend my type setting choices against the evil computer science professors. I've read through some other posts and as always it "depends" on which type of text you have and how much time you have: Does hyphenation increase readability? Readability and appeal of justified text http://designinstruct.com/web-design/typography-common-myths-and-mistakes/ What would be your professional advice on making this text be as readable as possible without having to spend $$$ on InDesign? Justify in word/drive or keep it left aligned as is? What are your thoughts on the general problem of justification and hyphenation of there is not enough time nor tools available? https://docs.google.com/document/d/14mjNuMbDHtomWiwtRYR9duLC8Ug8nHDmt2g3p2Tn3mM/edit?usp=sharing
I want create an animation, and for this I need to create some pictures. My example consist in a envelope opened. But I need to execute this steps: Original picture. Paper tearing(rip) effect - (This step it's easy and I know how to do). Paper roll/curl effect. Paper roll/curl effect a little more. So, I need a help to do steps 3 and 4. I'm a begginer on photoshop, for my creations I usually search on internet for tutorials, but in this case I don't know what I need to search for.
Could anybody please advise steps in Adobe Illustrator for creating a greenish background with "rays" emitting from its middle? I.e. which tool to use for creating the rays? How to create the "inner" shadow on the rectangular border? Which tool to create the lighter spot in the middle I wonder how to approach this in Adobe Illustrator, because I need a vector output - an .fxg file for my Flash game. I. e. I can not use Photoshop or Gimp here. Thank you for any hints/directions
I have collected over the years a huge collection of brushes, 3gb worth, that I would like a way I can export them out and possibly make a database file of them. However, I am unsure how to export an .abr file to jpeg so I can have a screenshot of brushes. Does anyone have a suggestion?
I am relatively new to Illustrator. I use version CS6 and I just discovered that when I apply an outer glow effect it is not visible in the PDF after saving apart from when you make the effect really strong. I am currently writing my thesis using latex and when I include the PDF in my latex document no outer glow effect is visible at all. Has anyone discovered a similar behaviour?
I want to start designing my own icons. I already have some experience with Photoshop and I made some icons using a tutorial. Do you have any tips on how to learn icon design?
I have drawn a path and would like to perfect its symmetry by aligning some of the anchor points vertically. The align panel seems to work well for objects, but I can't figure it out for individual path anchor points. Is this possible and if so, how?
What are the best practice for translating documents in InDesign? I guess there is some mechanism for import-export XML like Illustrator Variables to translate without using installed Indesign? I'm thinking about this workflow: export InDesign data into XML translate texts inside XML import XML into InDesign correct translated pages
Note, this is about design much more than development. I build sites from scratch with completely hand written CSS and HTML. I've known about pre-build css templates such as Bootstrap or HTML5 Boilerplate for some time. I've looked at them a briefly in the past but never jumped into actually using them for anything. I don't have any issues resetting CSS, or including javascript when needed, or configuring for viewports. This evening, I coded a basic HTML5/CSS page. Nothing really earth-shattering in terms of layout. Simply a jumping off point. Afterwards I decided to give Bootstrap a whirl with the same layout. It's a pretty standard 960px, 3 column with hero image page. As I'm altering Bootstrap it occurred to me that 80% or more of my time was being spent learning what class or id was applied to something, then finding that in the CSS to adjust. It became clear that Bootstrap was not going to save me any time at all. In fact, Bootstrap would greatly increase production times due to the *overly templated CSS. *(by "overly templated" I mean there's a great deal of CSS I probably wouldn't use for any given web site. Not that there is unnecessary CSS on the whole.) I understand that if I were familiar with Bootstrap I would be familiar with class/id names and general location in the stylesheets. So, I'm willing to bend a bit on the time it was taking me, realizing that some of it was due to my own unfamiliarity. However, I can't help but wonder if Bootstrap et. al. are merely crutches which are crippling designers by spoon feeding them their own brand of code. Thus locking in a consumer base which will rely entirely on a third party solution and it's functionality for everything, or at least the majority. It reminds me of those that can only design a web site if they can use Dreamweaver. And heaven forbid if they don't have access to Dreamweaver and a change is needed. When I build a site I use my own set of standard class and ID names. I structure CSS how it's intuitive for me. I have my own set of pre-build templates for quick set up. Therefore any site I build I can edit fairly quickly. Using any of the pre-configured front-end packages simply means I need to learn their naming conventions and their structure rather than relying on my own. Can anyone extoll upon me the great virtues of such templating systems as Bootstrap or HTML5 Boilerplate? What makes them valuable to you? Are you merely familiar with the system you use so you can navigate it easily or do you still have to hunt for items? Could you build a site without them if you had to?
I ask this question because it is in relation to Scott's thread here. I understand we have a WordPress stack exchange but I wanted to know before I dive into WordPress how designers have approached learning. Did you find it easier or beneficial to just dive into traditional themeing or did a pre-existing framework help? I've debated frameworks and I have spent months researching possible issues because I would like to implement Woo and BuddyPress in my CMS but I'd hate to dive into a framework and realize that it isn't compatible with what I need to do. What experiences have you had and is gantry a possible solid solution?
When someone sends me an artwork file and I need to see if certain elements are vector or raster, I currently just quickly zoom in all the way to see if the artwork pixelates or not. I'm looking for a PDF viewer that has a function similar to Illustrators View → Outline render mode, or any solution that would quickly allow me to differentiate between raster and vector elements in a PDF without having it open it up in Illustrator. Are there any viewers that can help accomplish that?
Reading through concept art forums, Ive met an opinion, that one of the most important things for a concept artist is to have a vast visual library. Out of the context of that opinion I take that this is about a "library" in your head, not on your hard drive. I would like to know what is a visual library, why is it so important and how to work on it.
I am developing a site and got given the design as a PSD, my question is, can I select an individual element, say the social media icons, and save them as an image? What I have been doing so far is hiding all the layers except the one that contains my element, then resizing the canvas to fit around that element and saving as an image, while that is required for items where several layers are used to obtain a specific effect it seems kinda longwinded for elements which are in essence just images (the other method is to export needed layers to a new photoshop file etc, but is also kinda longwinded). I did try to search for an answer but couldn't find one, so I apologise if this has already been asked. If it makes any difference I'm using (or trying to use :D ) Photoshop CS6 Edit: On Windows 7
Using Photoshop, when I change the document size from to 72.25cm x 54.19cm at 72ppi to 12cm x 9cm the resolution jumps to 433.493ppi. How can I stop Photoshop from doing this?
I wonder if there are other - similar intuitive ways - to visualize that some parts together on a chart are the whole / complete / sum up to 100%. Probably the most commonly used and understood is a circle because the beginning and end is touching but it seems a bit .. well, overused. It would be nice to find other ways. Here is a quick sketch with ideas; while 1 communicates completeness, 2 does not really. But does 3? What are other ways?
I googled this question and searched for an hour, every one specify their own likes, but i want to know the correct code to align the div in center position.
I know how to do this using image processing in Adobe Bridge, but I want to also adjust the image brightness and levels and also place a watermark on the images. Is there a method to do this in Photoshop or Bridge?
I'm trying to create a cloud image which can be resized without stretching, for an iPhone application. There's a method in iOS called resizableImageWithCapInsets which allows me to specify a number of pixels from each edge I don't want stretched, but the issue there is that the 'bubbles' around the edge of the cloud would be stretched. I can't quite get my head around the best way to draw or create it, or how I'll stretch it when I get it into my application. I'm talking about something like this: The bubbles on the sides of the cloud shouldn't stretch, but new ones will be created for however long / short the button needed to be. For example, if the button needed to be half the size of this image, only 2 of the bubbles would be shown, but if it needed to be taller, more than the 5 here could be, it'd add and remove them as necessary. I'd set minimum sizes so that at least one bubble would always be there, preventing issues if it got too small. The bubbles themselves can be tiled if need be. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can achieve such an effect, either from the perspective of software development or graphic design?
Hi :) Does anyone know if there is a way to select individual layers on a canvas in Photoshop without having to select it in the layer window first? I know I've done it before but I can't remember if it was in illustrator.
I very recently started learning how to use Adobe Illustrator (CS6), and just now I noticed something strange. When I add a 1pt stroke to my shape, it gets slightly distorted. This distortion does not disappear if I remove the stroke. (But only if I remove the stroke by setting its weight to 0. Using CTRL+Z does return the shape to its former state.) After adding and removing the stroke a few times, the difference becomes quite noticable: Am I doing something wrong? Is it a bug? I can't imagine this being the expected behaviour. EDIT: I think I figured it out. Appearantly, turning 'Align to pixel grid' off doesn't affect previous shapes. If I turn it off and then recreate my shape from scratch, the problem is fixed. However, I was wondering if their is a way to disable the effect for existing shapes. In other words, can I 'fix' the shapes I created while 'Align to pixel grid' was still on?
How can I change this black icon to the same shades and colors as this orange / gold icon?
I am somewhat confused as a graphic designer. What is that distinguish them. I know what both provide to some extent. Like I read about LESS and liked it. I guess i want to know what is a difference between framework and preprocessor.
Is the a name to the shape that connects the outside of a stencil letter to its interior enabling the letter to be cut through and retain its counters.
I want to use graphic design and website design to teach history to 8th graders, so kids can express what they have learned about history and use their knowledge to teach others. I also want to use design practices to plan the research learning and analysis of the information. I'm currently using wix.com as software, but what other resources are available to help me teach history to kids?
In this image you can see a preliminary grid and then circles are added that are aligned with the grid and then the shapes are formed by the intersecting circles, etc: I'm looking for some examples like this. Even works in progress and logos that didn't make the cut are ok. I'm trying to understand the thought process behind logo design.
The part where the human is shown. I have the original image in color and want to convert it into the red effect. What is the effect called and what technique is used.
What are the basics of an attractive web design? What should I be looking for and what sources should I use to educate myself on the matter?
Serif font such as Times New Roman is usually used in printing document in Windows. What is the equivalent font in Apple?
I need to batch resize multiple images and thats really easy in Photoshop insert a folder and get a output in anther folder. But i need this to output multiple images of all the images inside the folder is there a way to do this at once? This is what i want:
My graphic designer has specified Gotham Thin for the font in the iOS app that I'm writing. I googled around and found a site that will sell it to me, and I found some sites that just will let me download it for free. How do I know if the free site is legitimate or not? I don't want to be a pirate but I don't want to pay if I don't have to.
In my Photoshop fonts menu there's a lot of fonts I'll never use, and these get in the way of finding the fonts I do use. Can I hide those never-use fonts from Photoshop? (I'm not sure font management software would work because a lot of these fonts are system fonts and a font manager's solution to my problem is to completely deactivate the font, which would hide that font both from photoshop and the rest of the system, and that would cause problems, I'm sure).
I'm using CS6. Can someone tell me how to display all the controls of the timeline window ? Here's what mine looks like: All the demos / tutorials [show the timeline quite differently there:
So I have a series of images that I am trying to make into an animated gif. I have an animation time line and all that basic jazz, and I have saved for the web as a gif. When I reach the final save menu, I only get the option for html and images. The html setting shows the animation in sequence but cannot be uploaded to my webpage with out only being the first image of the animation with no action at all. The image setting just shows all the images in separate documents. What is up with this thing?
What are drawing techniques you use for digital graphics? Whether it be drawing with a pencil, scanning; or using illustrator from scratch. What are some methods you incorporate? Tips and tricks are welcome.
I know I am my worst enemy from critique to execution. I ask this question because I wanted to know any good ways to stop myself from going on and on in my own work. I have several ideas and things I'd like to design but I realized last year I only completed sketches and drafts and never really followed through with my personal projects or goals. Its easier when you are working for a client and it helps when you have a design process, I get that, but when you are your own client what do you do? I've heard some that will outsource to a friend but I feel to me I'm telling myself I cant design for myself if I did that. So the question is when designing for yourself, what do you put into place to prevent yourself from disaster?
Just discovered the "asterism" today: ⁂ Super cool. I had never heard of it or seen it before. Wikipedia has more about it. What other typographic symbols are out there that were never all that popular or have fallen out of favor? What were they used for? I placed in two that I know as a community wiki; I encourage others to build out a list.
I know there is software (like SteadyMouse) and hardware (like big key keyboards, mouse adapters, mouse pedals, and so), that can make the use of a computer easier for people with Parkinson's Disease or mobility impairments. While developing / programming is achievable (it might not take the same time, but it's possible top do it nonetheless), does the same happen with design? I'm trying to think about design specializations that don't require that much precision with the mouse. Can you think of creative ways of working for someone who enjoys design, but has limited motor abilities?
Often when I apply some effects to layers, and I merge them, the ones with effects have their blending mode messed up. They act as if all of their layer blending mode became normal and then merged. But I think sometimes it doesn't happen. What can I do to prevent this?
In other languages, alphabets can combine characters into symbols. I don't know if Photoshop can do that. Is there a clean way to do it, or a special plugin (preferably free)?. Maybe there is some hackish way like opening 3 programs and then writing in one, clearing in 2nd and then pasting in 3rd. I mean Photoshop is used in other non english countries. What do they do? Or Adobe doesn't care about them?
I want to create shapes using the shape tool, but then change the stroke to a line that looks hand drawn, or lay down a brush stroke that follows the same path -- by some method other than tracing with a mouse (I have no stylus). Is it possible?
I've got a poster design that I wish to print. But provided that poster has multiple colors that won't go good for a screen print (further, I would like to restrict screen printing to t-shirts), is there any printing technique that can be used? Please note that, one I'm a DIY guy, and two I don't want the prints on a large scale and hence won't prefer the idea of going for offset printing or some Print-on-Demand printing firm. Please let me know even if there is some inkjet printer or the like that you use that gives out good prints of A3 size at least. Thanks.
I have a bunch of Smart Objects in a .psd. I want to create an action that opens up the .psb of each individual Smart Object and scale the .psb image size by 150%. The reason for all this is that each .psb contains a Vector Smart Object, and if I scale the Smart Object from the parent .psd the result is a blurry mess. So the only solution as I see it, is to open up each .psb and scale the image size by 150%. I don't know if it's possible to do this with a Photoshop Action, so that photoshop performs the above hokus-pokus on the selected layer? I can only get an action to work on a specific layer? Alternatively it might be possible to do this with a jsx-script, any hints on how to go about this is also highly appreciated.
This was asked in another thread. When I searched to see if this question has been asked before it was not. Per Meta we are encouraged to create threads that show quality solutions or to future assist others. What do you do to prepare your files for CMYK printing in InDesign, Photoshop or Illustrator? What is a good way to test print the output before creating plates? How should you prepare a file for 6 color printing? How should you prepare a file for 8 color printing? In regards to preparing for black this is an excellent thread.
As you can see at the left, there is a lot of white space at the bottom of the page 1. My boss doesn't like it and forces designers to put "enters" (new lines) between the paragraphs in order to full fill the page more evenly (as in the right). Doing this will broke the automatic system of InDesign because if something is added later and there will be no white space, then it will create white where it should not be (because of the white space). You have to notice that this is done with flow, it means that content flows thought the pages, sometimes up to 16 pages, so it's very probable to change something and white spaces will changes again. Then some design should look around the whole document to remove the new lines created. Is there any way to automatically fill a page in InDesign? thanks
I'm messing around with some premade site designs and I really like the color balance of one, however the scheme is not the color I'm looking for. There are about 30 color variations in it. Is there any way to find the numeric relation between the hex colors and then recreate that using a new base color?
I had a project head tell me I had to leave the registered trademark symbol ® in standard, unbolded, non-italicized Myriad Pro. Is this a requirement or just a style choice? Curious to get feedback before I engage further in the discussion with him. Thanks!
This SHOULD be really simple, but I can't seem to achieve it effectively with Inner Glow. The effect is so commonly used; nearly every logo here features the effect of a subtle gradient effecting a slightly darkened edge to the base background colour. I can't seem to get an effective gradient between my dark outer tone and base inner tone, instead stuck with a "banding" effect in Ps. I've yet to try in Ai, but any tips to creating it there would be sincerely appreciated too! Many thanks in advance!
This is more a question for the web designer guys. I'm just wondering how you guys deal with sending designs to your frontend developers? Or do you just do it yourself? What is your process for sending your designs to your devs? ie Do you send PSDs, or PNGs or other? How do you send them? Email, dropbox or something else? And what do you do when you need to make changes to the files? Do you send a new comp? Or just a list of email instructions?
In a Flex card game I have all cards as vectors (purchased as stock cliparts), but the back of the cards has been bitmap (couldn't find a good stock clipart) So I've asked a designer at a job board to draw me a back in Adobe Illustrator, which she did and the FXG file looks flawlessly - in Adobe Illustrator: and in Flash CS6: But looks absolutely wrong where I need it - in Flash Builder: Does anybody please know, how to get rid of those "out of bounds" lines? How to "cut" them of? This is porbably some minor change, but I just can't find it in AI. UPDATE: On Scott's suggestion (thanks!) I have selected Expand Apperance: But can't find the crop he suggests...
I want to change the "line height" of a font, that is the space between lines when the font is typed. I'd like to increase the space. (I need to use several fonts font in a text app with a fixed (non editable) line spacing). I'm not very experienced with fonts. I do have Fontographer, and I tried several things like changing the "base point" but it seems to have no effect.
I have a text in a image file, that says "Forward". How can I with the same layout/pattern/structure create an additional text "Rewind". So I have two similar texts? Thanks!
I am creating a practical guide book with images. I am currently using Scrivener which is writing software for the edit stage. I need to include images into the text, but I will then pass over my draft to a layout designer to layout out the project in Indesign. Should I bother putting full size images into Scrivener, or should I just put placeholders in and then hand over the full size images to the designer?
I'm making a custom keyboard and want it to look nice, and like Apple's, without actually copying pixels. I did a bunch of work on creating keys and the background, only to be amazed once again by Apple's genius when comparing my keyboard with the standard iOS keyboard. I'm sure many of you have seen the optical illusion where a shadow is cast diagonally over a black/white checkerboard, with the effect that what look like two different shades of gray are actually exactly the same. Apple, it turns out, does this with their keyboard, except they adjust the grays to make them look the same. Can any of you give me a hand with the numbers? How do I determine what the best gray values are against a gradient background? Screenshots attached for illustration. Note the gray lines I added to the keyboard image - they are thinnish, running between the left side of the spacebar and the R. I would post my custom keyboard but it looks terrible.
I suppose in older times typographers had to redraw the entire character set, but I'd guess there's some good heuristics to make a character bolder/lighter in software and then make some manual adjustments. Is there currently any kind of software that assists with this task?
Can I create a 3d model from pictures that are available on the internet and put it into a small animation and post it on YouTube? For example I want to create a 3d model of a car from images found on the internet and then put it into animation of crashing it then posting it on Youtube. Is this illegal? Will it violate copyrights?
I'm not a designer but I'm learning how to implement an efficient design on a website. How do we decide on the grid used, as far as I can grasp, 3x3 boxes looks good to me. But as I keep reading, i noticed there are many more grid variations such as 12x12, 16x16. If so, where will the "focus" point lie in the website? In a 3x3 Grid, I understand that the "focus" point lies between the two horizontal line intersecting with one of the vertical line.
I am making a book with some of my photography. I have not been blessed with the best camera in the world so my images range between 1100px squared to 2000px squared. The print size per image will be approximately 7 inches (17cm). Now for my 1100px images, I will need a DPI of 150 max, however for my 2000px images I could push it to 285DPI but would probably just settle with 250DPI. Is it possible to set the DPI per image or rather per page as each page will have one image on it? For example: page one 150DPI, page 2 200DPI etc.
I'm looking for creative ways to add imperfections or flaws to my vector graphics in order to make them appear more like hand drawn sketches. I'm working with Inkscape so tips that work here are very welcome but I don't want to limit the question to it. Here are options that I commonly use: Actually drawing objects with freehand tools and simplify them to get rid of shaky hands effects when using a mouse to draw. Add objects and blur them. Use colour gradients or patterns. Use textures. Are there methods to methodically add imperfections? I'm especially looking for "not so straight lines" (freehand tools) and "not uniform colouration" (multiple gradients?) as may be the result of different pressure in real paintings.
I'm struggling to make the below shape in illustrator: Rounded corner rectangles are easy but I'm not sure how to round the sides easily as well. I would want these shapes to be easy to re-size ideally. Can anyone nudge me in the right direction?
I'm currently scanning a few documents at the moment and have highlighted several parts of the text. My scanner doesn't pick up the highlighted text very well and the highlighted areas are very faint. Is it possible to use Photoshop to enhance the colour of the highlight? Thanks in advance.
I'm debating which colors to use for my website. We've been trying to find the right colors for the logo and graphics of the site, and struggling with trying to pick between the light and dark blue. What would be the advantages to one or the other?
I am designing an application that requires between 100 - 200 icons / vector art of everyday objects - grandma, banana, boat, etc. The resource that I've found that is closest to my needs is The Noun Project but, preferably, I would like something with a bit more color. Are there any similar resources for this purpose? (Note: I know I will have to pay someone for a unified look and feel, but I would like to mock out the application with default icons initially.)
I have an image 8x8 pixels as below; this is the image as I see in Adobe Illustrator CS6: Each gray shade in upper left and lower right corners is 4x2 pixels. I would like to save this image as I see it with "Save for Web", but when I save it as PNG-24 with no anti-aliasing I get the below image: Obviously it is very different than what I expect. What is happening here? Can anybody give me a hint about saving the image as I see it on Illustrator artboard? NOTE: I saved the image with Photoshop without a problem. I still want to learn this weird behavior of Illustrator though.
I am trying to identify several fonts but hitting a brick wall. Can anyone help me identify these fonts please?
How to lock the position and size of a text-frame in InDesign CS6? I would like to lock those properties in each page in Indesign. Sometimes the designers get wrong and drag and drop the text frame without noticing. Then we have to remove the page and create again. If this is not done when I update the master will not update the size and position of the text frame
I'm new to Adobe Illustrator and I wanted to accomplish this task. How do I remove the inner lines in my drawings? I tried with all the pathfinders effect but it keeps removing my tangent lines (the lines connecting both my circles). It works like a charm as I followed the selected's answer guide: Here it is.
These two fonts are a pain to identify because of the formatting (one is partially masked) and the other is on a background that makes it hard to identify. There are two different images for the 2nd logo (cobaty) Any idea what these fonts are?
When I click in the Appearance menu to color a stroke or a fill, it pops up a library of swatches. I can't figure out how to get that to show a different swatch library. I have a saved library, I can even made it pop up in a different window, but I don't know how to make it show up in that specific window when I want to change/set the stroke/fill color.
What I have is a folder full of about 100 images of various sizes and shapes spread across various sub-folders. I need to blank out all these images ( or ideally replace them with some subtle pattern ) while keeping the pixel sizes, names and folder structure. Is there any software that anyone knows of that can batch process in any way similar to this.
I'm creating symbols using custom brush packs that I downloaded. Most of these brushes have many different colors in them ("textures"), not just a single one. My question is how to dismiss these colors and, using the outlines of the brush strokes, fill that brush stroke/shape with a single color instead. I know this can be done with Expand Appearance and then changing the fill color, but that doesn't seem to work for me: This is a close-up of one of the brush strokes for one of the symbols I'm making: Here's what it looks like after using Expand Appearance: If I then change the fill color, I get this: "No biggie" I thought, "I'll just add a slight stroke to cover that up". Except then I instead get these spikes of doom everywhere along the brush strokes (and it'd take way too long for me to manually clean it all up): Thankful for all the help I can get!
I had this question popping out while viewing some ISO standards such as ISO 9142. I searched a little but couldn't find an explicit ISO standard that is specifically for Computer Icons. So, has one such standard been published? or a similar recognized one?.
How was the following design made? It's very beautiful, and I'm trying to recreate it on my own. When I'm done, I'd like to have a "correct answer" to check my answer against.
Anyone know of some tutorials or walk-throughs on how to animate 3D rotated/transformed text in Flash Professional CS6? I cant seem to find any. (Googled) I am trying to make an animation of some extruded rotating text.
Example: This seems to be a problem with using JPEG. My questions are: How to remove the grey areas around the text? What filter/process in GIMP/ImageMagick or other free image editing/scripting mediums would you recommend? What would be a programmatic approach to cleaning an image like this? E.g. converting it to a bitmap and applying some filter or process using scripting, etc. What is the preferred web friendly file format to not end up with such dirty looking images?
I have a logo consisting of a group of paths and smart objects, so I want them to stay editable. Layers: Now all these are white in color. Behind them is transparency. I want to color all the layers at once, while keeping them editable. I tried blending modes with layers above them, but all results either did not color or left the background colored as well. I tried an adjustment layer but it just didn't do anything. Blending mode example: I need the logo itself to say, for this example, blue, but the background transparent.
I have a lot of tables that designers have to adjust slightly to fit the content. This takes a large amount of time in our process and I would like to know if there is anyway to skip this? Perhaps a custom script? If not, could you suggest what I should do? How would I go about creating my own script to auto-fit the columns to the data? Also the table must always be 100% of the available width (normally into a text-box)
Is there any software that allows to draw block diagrams like this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Windows_2000_architecture.png or like this:
Always when I try to copy-paste something from Fireworks to Photoshop it gets a white background. So often I end up saving the part I need as a seperate png-file with transparent background and then load that file into photoshop. But surely there is another way, isn't there ?
What would call the style used in the Space Needle themed lock screen in Windows 8, and how would you reproduce that style? I'm in the early stages of learning Windows 8 and preparing to roll it out at the small college where I work. One thing I noticed early is the new Space Needle themed lock screen. Sure, there are other lock screen options, but I have a feeling this screen will be iconic in the same way as the old Windows XP Bliss wallpaper. What I'd like to do is make an adaption of this image that fits our own locale, but will still be immediately recognizable. I'll start from scratch to avoid copyright issues, but the left half of the new image should look very similar. I'll skip the mountains and use a corn field instead of the water, and I want to replace the Space Needle with a depiction of one of the more recognizable campus buildings. But for this work, it needs to have the same visual style as the original. Any suggestions? FWIW, here is the result of my efforts. No corn field and it's lacking some level of detail from the original, but I think it will do the job. My main complaint is that the wrong side of the building is shaded... the side towards the sun is darker.
I asked the closed https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/16602/how-can-or-should-i-design-my-personal-and-professional-sites, and one of the comments was that if the commenter stumbled upon any of my sites, that commenter would conclude I knew nothing about design. So can I ask resources, whether available from Safari or elsewhere, on how I can better learn design?
I am designing a banner which will be printed at 7ft x 4ft. I am using Photoshop CS4. The images are not vectors. The original poster artwork has been done at 300 ppi for A4 printing. I was hoping to re-size the canvas of the poster (after saving as a new file) to keep the 300 ppi resolution but working on a smaller scale to reduce the file size. This is mainly to avoid having to copy all the layers in to a new file to recreate the existing image. I have looked around at various questions already on the site, but can't seem to find an answer. The common recommendation seems to be that banners or other large-scale pieces that will be viewed from a distance only need to be around 75-100 ppi, but I was hoping to work with a higher resolution and smaller size, instead of lower resolution and larger canvas. Any and all advice or suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Here is the problem. I am doing this work for a company. They wanted me to clean 138 jpeg files and give them back. I opened a psd and put all the files in it. I cleaned all of them. At last, i created 2 effects. 1 Brightness/contrast and 1 curves. They are at the top of the layers. Then i tried "File>Scripts>Export Layers to Files" command. Here comes the problem. This command closes all the layers first, just let one open, save it, and then goes for another one. But in this time, my Brightness/contrast and Curves layers are also closing. So i cannot see these effects on layers. Anyone has a suggestion about this?
I created a custom shape with custom pattern with the following steps: Drawing the border lines with Path Tool Making a closed shape by Selection from Path Selecting the closed shape with Magic Wand Filling the closed shape with solid color or pattern by Bucket Fill Tool Now I want to re-design the shape by moving the controlling points of Bezier Curve, but the shape is now independent of the initial points set by the Path Tool. My problem is that after Step 2, the closed shape is independent of the initial drawing points, and thus not editable. On the other hand, I want to edit the shape when it is filled with color. How can I create a custom filled shape, which is still editable by moving controller points?
I'm a programmer doing a client project, and I'm trying to write an app that will do this (the photograph of the woman) to user-uploaded images. I think it's some combination of Sepia and some other filters, but I'm not sure. Anyone have any ideas?