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I have a layer containing an icon in color. My goal is to have the same icon in black and white as well (i.e., both the color and the black & white version in a single image). When I select the color image on Layer 1 and duplicate it, then highlight Layer 1 copy, and finally click on the adjustments icon at the bottom of the layers panel to reduce the hue, I get the following result: Selecting any layer will now yield black and white icons for both icons (even though I want Layer 1 to remain colorful). (Also, Ctrl-Z does not undo it.) How can I make Layer 1 copy black and white but leave Layer 1 colorful?
I have designed some fancy cards (80mm x 48mm), and I would like to print them on both sides of a sheet of paper now (5x2 per A4 sheet). Naturally, both sides of the print need to coincide exactly. However, after several attempts, it seems it's not working as expected: my printer seems to impose extra margins which mess up the alignment (which makes the printed area of the front side no longer coincide with the printed area of the back side). I already tried adding 1-2mm extra on all sides to allow some fluctuation, but this turns out to be insufficient. The difference seems to be always in the same direction, but strangely, moving the images around doesn't seem to change much -- as if the printer automatically corrects this. So I wondered, are there any good ways to do it? In the PDF, things are aligned very well, but the printer messes it up with more than 2 mm difference. Any idea what would cause this and how to avoid it? (For what it's worth, I'm using Windows 7 (pro, 64bit) and my printer is a Samsung CLP-325.)
I am using Flash CS6 ActionScript 3.0. I am creating an animation with 3-4 images of registration form. The clarity of images is poor in the output of animation even though I am using really clear and large image files. What do I need to do to produce clearer animations?
In InDesign CS6, I'm aware that I can apply drop cap style to characters at the start of a paragraph. However, what if I need drop caps for characters that are at the end of a paragraph? How can I apply a drop cap style for characters that are at the last character of a paragraph?
I have the following rounded rectangle Need to make border glossy like below image In order to do that, I've expanded this shape and created a ellipse with no stroke above button, with transparency/screen. This is what I got: Now I need to get rid of the rest of ellipse, so the button will be transparent on upper boundaries. Inner part of button should be white, but whatever I put between button and ellipse should receive glossy effect. How to do that? Update: This is what I got with object inside rectangle. However, I feel that the way I did it not effective. I've pasted 'S' into black full rectangle and into masked rectangle. Should I need to modify it then it's double work.
I have two shapes and I want to merge the anchor points as seen in the image. Is there any way?
I would like to create a pdf with text fields that expand in height but when you are finish typing that they revert back to there original size so as not to cover anything up or flow the rest of my file off the page. Is this do-able? I have Adobe Livecycle Designer but know little to nothing about it, have only tinkered. I also have Acrobat Pro X. Any help is appreciated.
I've been doing some preliminary research regarding data merging. I have a client requesting layouts of essentially sales package components. His current workflow is to use Word to data merge with Outlook then self-print the package pieces. The design of the pieces is, well, poor. So he wants better design. The trick is he doesn't have Indesign (not a surprise) and I don't expect him to get Indesign. And I refuse to use Microsoft Word for layout. I've already tried to dissuade him a bit explaining that if what he's doing is working, why complicate and change things.However, he's persistent. So a bit of research tells me I can use Acrobat forms to data merge with an Excel file. This may work. But I'm having some difficulty configuring things in Indesign (using CS5.5 but can use CS6 or CC if needed). I can easily designate form fields in Indesign by using underscores. Acrobat then will automatically read the underscores as a form field. The problem occurs when I want the layout to be a bit dynamic. I want a form field to adjust to fit it's contained text and eliminate any underscores. Without underscores Acrobat doesn't see form fields. I can manually place fields in Acrobat, but this requires me to leave a big open space in the Indesign layout. Are there any tips, links, or other information you can provide which can explain how to use dynamic form fields in Acrobat (if that is possible), and how to best configure an Indesign file for PDF Form output? I have a suspicion that I am not going to be able to get the dynamic text flow from PDFs which he's getting from Word, or which I could achieve via data merge within Indesign. I do not want to be responsible for his data-merge though. I just want to configure things so he can do it without Indesign.
I'm looking for a keyboard shortcut to change spacing before and after paragraphs in InDesign CS6. So far I haven't been able to find a default shortcut nor to setup a custom one (couldn't find this item inside the shortcut preferences). Any ideas that don't involve creating paragraph styles for each spacing value?
I've been fighting with InDesign GREP find/change quite a bit and couldn't find any way to get it to look at the start and the end of a character style. This is necessary if, for example, you want to grab only whole chunks of a character style and only if they don't contain something. For example, you might have text like... Lorem ipsum dolor sit2-4 amet, consectetur5 adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud2,3 exercitation ullamco6 laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. ...and you want to make GREP rules that strictly start only from the start of each snippet or span of the character style applying the superscript, and strictly end only at the end of the character style applying the superscript. (for example, so you can find whole snippets that don't contain punctuation like "-" or ",", without finding sub-snippets that aren't punctuation such as the 2 in "2,3") Using ^ and $ (beginning and end of paragraph/line) with a character style specified in Find/Change gives weird results and then crashes. Using word boundaries \b and the mysterious "opposite of a word boundary" \B also gave strange results (jumping the cursor to the right place once, then not selecting anything and not finding any more locations).
I'm writing a little javascript application in which users need to be able to choose an image from an "image library" and then choose the color of said image. There will be a massive number of images and a massive number of colors, and I would really love if I did not have to make each color of each image. Instead, I was hoping to be able to take a png and swap the transparent and visible elements, so that I can just put a solid block of color behind it to change the color. Does anybody know of a good way to quickly do this (I have adobe design premium 5.5)? Thanks in advance!
I use Fireworks and want to create 8-bit style graphics, kind of like the games on the NES. What are the best methods for this? Can I reduce the colour palette? What about the number of pixels, is there a difference here? Or, should I just take my full quality graphics and save as an 8-bit PNG? Any advice and/or further reading would be most appreciated.
I know this, but I can't recollect at all. What is this thing called? They are usually centered in a book or writing and I'm certain they have a name but I can't remember for the life of me. They also come in all shapes, colors and sizes.
So, a while back I created this icon from a game, but looking back on it behind a white background instead of an alpha-channel its edges are super choppy in some places while it's smooth in others, which is possibly due to the method I used to select certain regions before bucket-filling it. I was using GIMP and I was wondering if there is any possible way to easily fix this (ie make all edges even instead of choppy). Maybe some rendering filters or selection methods that I don't know about? I've googled and youtubed but with no avail. My image: (As you can see, the inner crescent-shaped things are choppy as well as the exterior of the circle on the left and right is choppy)
I prefer to work with the web, so it's been forever since I've worked with a printer. Just received this message back regarding a doc utilizing white ink. How can I accomplish this in Adobe Illustrator? (The doc is already assigned CMYK.) What we need are print ready PDFs with the white ink designated as a Spot Color titled "White."
As I understand it, producing an image with fonts that are subpixel antialiased is nonsense because once the font is rendered to an image (clarification: bitmap image), the subpixels will turn into full pixels (how could the image preserve the subpixel-ness of the font rendering?) I could not find a definitive source to confirm or invalidate my understand. Clarification: I want to deploy images with text in them to the web. So it's not about a mockup or anything.
I am desperate for a guide that will tell me how terms translate between CorelDraw and Illustrator. I've used Corel for nearly 20 years and know the terms and shortcut keys like I speak "Corel". With a new job I HAVE to use Illustrator and I don't speak Illustrator! Features in Illustrator and Corel are clearly similar -- but the terminology is different! For example: CorelDraw has nodes while Illustrator uses a clipping path? Can anyone tell me what the common terms are and how they translate? AND the shortcut keys? for example: Corel: Group/Ungroup = Ctrl+G Illustrator: Group = Command/Ctrl+G
I've followed this tutorial to get 2 corner rounded rectangle. However, when I try to union those two halves of rectangles back, then on upper right corner I got the following Merged lines are going exactly to the center of rectangle. The bottom left corner looks like this: What I want is to get 90 degree corners, just like before cutting rectangle with scissors.
I am building a database with descriptions and various other information for strength training exercises. One of the most important things is to actually let the user get a visual idea of how to perform the exercise, so I want to build a set of clipart pictures that show them. The best example of what I would like to do is this: (Source) Their pictures are in .bmp format, but I don't know how they built them. What's the best/easiest way to accomplish this? Is there software out there that can help with this? It seems like the best approach would be to be able to design a human mockup and then be able to manipulate its joints to show them in various positions. However, I have basically no experience in design/computer graphics so any help and directing me to relevant resources would be much appreciated.
I'm creating buttons for my app specifically for the iPhone 4S and the iPhone5. For some reason, any objects that are circular in nature appear jagged on the phones. For example, a location marker which I created in Photoshop doesn't look jagged from within Photoshop. However, when exported as a .png and used as a button in iOS, the edges around the curve of the location marker are jagged. Is this a problem with the resolution?
When I combine two shapes where at least one has a non-right angle or curve, both shapes become anti-aliased. This appears to be some new to CS6. Are there any ways to get around this? The photo below shows two sets of combined shapes, one with a 45 degree angle which causes the blurring and one with right angles which does not blur.! Example of Blurring
I know how to do this manually, but I need an automatic way (either a script or just a command in Illustrator). Here's a line like the one I mean. Notice how it's all made of straight lines (The blue dots are the anchor points): How can I turn this into a true curve easily? Note that I have all of Adobe Creative Cloud at my disposal, so if there is a tool in Fireworks, Photoshop, or anything else that can help, it is still relevant.
I have an Illustrator file that's behaving strangely when I print it to PDF. Basically, it adds small lines around shapes; I included a zoomed-in screenshot. If I save the file as PDF, the lines don't appear but then the file itself is huge: 30MB. Has anyone seen this issue and if so, how do you solve it? Thanks.
I am a web developer struggling with design issues. I have a blunt eye for colors and my design skills suck (I try to improve though). I'm having issues with the feel of particular pages, I wonder if my color schemes are any good, if my design invokes seizures or general rage(jk). I would like some feedback, specifically on color patterns across the site (if the colors give a general feeling of uniform design and not like each page is of its own) or if there are any striking colors that are universally "banned" (like the red-black in the bar). Here are some of the pages: main page movie page(arrows indicate questions about if the difference in color is well balanced or horrendous) user page(it replaces the "Favorites" with whatever you click) - Main page: http://83.212.108.109/freaq/ - user page: http://83.212.108.109/freaq/user.php (yes the one in the pic is me ;p ) - movie page: http://83.212.108.109/freaq/movie.php - network page: http://83.212.108.109/freaq/network.php P.S. If I ever launch a start-up I will give lots of designer love, as I understand that good UIUX is 50%+ of a product. P.P.S. If something is broken is due to the fact I am working on it
When I used the slice tool on each part and export as HTML, does it generate a skeletal HTML code where it consists of frame layouts? I would like to know for both Photoshop CS4 and GIMP.
I want to preview a map that I'm generating before sending it off to the (expensive) printer. Unfortunately, the tool used to make it (TileMill) has no concept of paper sizes, DPI or any units. It just lets you specify a certain number of pixels. So, what's a process (and tools) I could use to view it at close to 1:1 scale of the final process? I'm thinking something like: Look up length of desired print size (A2): x1 (59.4cm) Measure width of screen (it's landscape): x2 (33.3cm) View the image on screen, zooming to x1/x2 (178.4%). Is this right, or am I missing something? And if this right, what tool on OS X can zoom to such precise levels?
I found this image from an unknown source. I have searched on whatfontis.com but could not exact font.
The company I work for recently started a partnership program. Part of the program includes us sending out our logo to our partners which they will include in their websites, signs and printed materials. We had some issue with photoshop color profiles and chose to remove them in the files we sent to our partners. Is this the correct way to do this? Are there any other ways to insure that the colors in our logo will appear correctly when added to other company's designs?
I am new to design and I am creating a document in InDesign. I am using 16X16 icons for headings, but when I export this document to PDF format, the icons look blurred (see image). I've tried to sharpen the icon in Photoshop but I'm not sure how to do that. How can I make a sharp icon?
I want to create an icon for my iOS App that keys into iOS 7's new design and color scheme. What kinds of colors should I use and what key things should I implement in the design?
I am designing an app about collecting movie posters (original ones combined with some funny/creative factors). Since there are different kinds of movies (horror, romantic, action, etc.), I need to find a unifying graphic style for them. My target user group is mostly male European/US movie goers aged 16-40. Any ideas?
I have a simple black and white image. I want to remove the white background and make it transparent. There are some intricate parts so the magic wand tool won't work for me in this case. Is there a way I can select a color and remove it (making it transparent)? Here's a sample of the image: I'm currently using Pixelmator, but have access to Photoshop. Also, I would think all of these programs would have a similar tool for doing this, but I'm not familiar with it.
I just messed up using the Gradient Mesh Tool in Adobe Illustrator. I want to start a brand new Gradient Mesh on the object I messed up on and don't want to delete the original shape. How can I remove the existing Gradient Mesh so that I can start a new one from scratch?
I have a very simple psd file with 2 layers. The top layer has a layer style: This is how it looks: But when I try to rasterize the rounded rectangle layer, it turn it into this: It's missing the green. How can I export it with the green stuff? Thanks
I was following a tutorial related to the construction of a web template using Photoshop. I have found this image that shows the use of the guides: I have no problem placing a guide into my canvas, but I have trouble understanding what unit of measurement is used in this case. I think that this uses pixels, is that right? My problem is that if I set the rulers to use pixels in Photoshop, I do not have these ruler increments: 0, 50, 100, 150, and so on... Instead, I have different increments: 0, 20, 40, 60 and so on... So I have some doubts related to the active unit of measurement. Can I change the displayed increments to have something exactly like the previous image?
I'm converting pdf files to svg as it is easier to use svg files on webpages. I first thought the quality of svg must be similar to pdf, as they are both vector graphics. However, now I look a little better on it, it seems that pdf is a bit superior: I wonder if I could change this in some way. Is this because pdf vectors are just better quality ? Or is this because chrome renders svg in lower quality than adobe reader renders pdf ? Is this a setting in the svg file that I could change ? I've made this svg file in illustrator, and only chrome is able to use the embedded svg fonts. So firefox and internet explorer won't give the expected result.
What is the easiest way without vector? I would like to generate something very similar to the image below for CSS development, but I'm having a hard time figuring out the easiest way to turn shape lines into pencil or sketched look lines. I've tried: Using calligraphy pens, held down the shift key Hand tracing a straight line but it came up too jagged I feel like I'm making this unnecessarily hard. Any thoughts are generously and gratefully accepted.
Microsoft Paint is the worst image editing tool I could ever imagine of, but it has one good thing that still makes me use it over Photoshop: When I enlarge a small, pixelated 16x16 image, it doesn't make it blurry, instead, it enlarges every pixel in the image, so that the image will still look pixelated as it did before, but now it's just bigger. I know that this by itself might not be the best resizing algorithm and in most situation's, Photoshop's way of doing this proves to be more satisfactory. However, I'm doing some pixel art right now and I need the pixels to still look like squares when I enlarge the image. I would just use Paint, but the problem with Paint is that it doesn't keep transparency. In a nutshell, the question is: How to enlarge an image in Photoshop without making it blurry, like the way Paint does? In other words, "Enlarge as if I've just zoomed in."
I would like to achieve in Photoshop this type of transparency effect (higher transparency values on the brighter areas of the image): How can I do this?
I have some images to send to the printer. The printing company wants them in 'CMYK' but doesnt offer any other information. I've read up quite a bit on this but most info that I've found seems to be about the theory of color profiles with not much on the actual procedure. Currently my image is in sRGB (I'm using the GIMP which I believe uses sRGB, but doesnt embed this color profile in the image). I understand that ISOcoated_v2_300_eci.ic is a good general-purpose CMYK profile. 1) Do I want to convert my image to the CMYK profile or do I just want to add the profile to the image? 2) How can I verify that the above has worked. E.g. if I load the image up with some viewer app and view it on the monitor, how can I tell if it is all correct? I.e. I believe once the image is in the new profile you should be able to preview to get an estimate what it will look when printed (as CMYK has a smaller range than sRGB) and maybe adjust the colors to improve things. Maybe there are some test images showing before and after conversion? 3) Can anyone recommend tools for 1 and 2 (free hopefully). I am on windows 7, but could also use Linux. (Other than Separate+ for the GIMP - I tried it but I'm pretty certain its not working correctly for me as yellow turns into yellow-green).
I'm designing a page with a lot of beautiful pictures of different places. I'm wondering how I can use some sort of filter on the pictures or how to format the container to give the page a consistent feel. Please note that these pictures will be user generated and thus I'm not sure what will come about. Here is an example of what I'm working with: Should I add a border to the container? Or desaturate the pictures? All in all, I need a filter to put on pictures or a method to format the picture container to give the dynamic pictures a flat feel.
I'm working on creating a glyph for the British pound sterling for a typeface I'm working on, and I realized that not only is it a bit of an oddity, it's an oddity that I, as someone from the United States (a 'Murican), am just not that exposed to. What does a "normal" pound sign look like? A "normal" dollar sign tends to be, more or less, the "S" glyph of the font with one or two vertical strokes through it. But consider a sampling of pound signs: Calibri is first, and is about as plain as can be; an elongated 'f' with a wide base. Adobe Caslon Pro gives it an oblique slant even though this is the Regular weight. Helvetica Neue squiggles the base, which feels a bit out of place compared to the general sterility of the typeface. Didot really emphasizes the loop on the baseline, while Charlemagne flattens out the base quite a bit. None of them have a crossbar in the middle that matches the x-height of the rest of the face, but the general rule seems to be to roughly bisect the glyph. If I look at these by date released, I'd guess that the notation has simplified over time. Any Brits (or those who work with pounds enough to have an opinion) have thoughts on this? I know this stuff boils down to "what feels right," but I don't have enough context to make that call.
Are there any graphics programs that work like AutoCad or Inventor where you can draw objects and give them precise dimensions? Even better, something parametric like Inventor. I don't like lining stuff up by eye or using flaky snap grids. I'm hoping for something really extensive, and straight forward as if one was drawing simple parts (I plan on making icon vectors). Is there anything like this? Thanks
I want to make a long shadow just like in this image. I can create this shadow with shapes and by deleting the unwanted shadows after rasterizing the layer. But it's not very reusable. I can't resize the layer after rasterizing it. Is there any easy way to make a long shadow like in the image below?
How can I change thickness of "outlines", which actually are not strokes but closed shapes? In the following example you can see outlines which I would like to make thicker, all of them. I wish I could convert them to strokes...
I've created some images in Illustrator (simple portraits to be exact). I have been using the "Save As" option to save PDF Versions to email to my boss for the past few weeks. Here is my problem: Now that I have begun printing, the prints have glitches all over them. Some of the shapes and paths are not filled all the way in and have white spaces, and in some spots I can see the bottom layers coming through the top layers. For example, the white of the eyes may show up on the eye-lid, even though the eye-lid is on TOP. I'm not understanding why the PDF files look so great on the computer screen, but my prints look so screwed-up.
The Problem I've designed some playing cards (3.5" x 2.25") in InDesign. Now I want to print a prototype batch on my home printer as a first test. Ideally I would like 4 cards per 8.5" x 11" page, with printers marks to guide cutting. You'd think this would be easy with InDesign. So far, it seems to be anything but. There are a startling number of wrong ways to do it, and I haven't found a right way yet. What I've Tried Method A: New Document Start a second document with 8.5" x 11" pages. Drag the cards into it and position them 1 by 1 This is the closest to the right way that I've found, but I lose any background fields from the original in the process. Method B: Export to PDF I tried exporting to PDF then printing multiple pages to a page. Why this fails: it resizes the pages. Method C: Printing Thumbnails I tried printing "thumbnails" to a single page in InDesign. Again, this resizes the pages.
I have an inDesign file, a booklet of mostly text in a table (names addresses etc) and my client would like the file set up so they can edit it themselves, add to the table. Is there a way to convert my inDesign file to a template/editable format (not PDF) in a more common program such as Word, whilst keeping my formatting/fonts? They do not have inDesign or inCopy.
I have an image: I need this image for a webpage background. As you see, it has lots of useless pixels around the blurred element which could be replaced with CSS. The image given to me is JPG, I have no access to layers. Is there a way to trim by color instead of transparent pixels?
I'm looking to create a tube with an effect like the following - the cylindrical segments which come together to make a pipe. I was wondering how this might be achieved; You could layer ellipsis with lighting effects over each other, but does anyone know of an alternative method to achieve? Yes, it looks something like a hoover pipe.
I am designing a brand for the Brazilian Market. It is focused mainly on beauty products for the mass. So the font I choose needs to be with some personality, not too fancy, not too simple. How can I narrow down a group of fonts to choose from that will fit my needs?
What are the default dimensions for a Twitter User's Background image? If I want to upload my own image for my Twitter account's Background image, what should its default dimensions be, as per Twitter's official guidelines?
I'm developing a logo from a photograph of some vehicles, am I allowed to use the manufacturers icon they use on the front of the vans we own, in our logo? Sorry if it's a silly question, but this area of GD is very murky and it's hard to find a solid answer.
The company I work for wants to release a brochure and they want to demonstrate that our app works on PC (web-based app) as well as on a smart phone. They used to have a designer who used a picture of an iPhone and screenshots of the app including the browser (Firefox). I'm not keen on showing browser UI, especially because our users use various browsers (from IE6 to Google Chrome). We thought about showing a PC screen but this leads to other issues and it just doesn't fit within our current style. My idea is to design a very simple browser UI + a smart phone using our current style - what do you guys think? Can you think of a different way to present the screenshots in multiple devices?
I'm working in a file that has a template/guide thing that I can't figure out how to toggle. Does anybody have experience with these?
How to Create Rounded Corner Hexagon in photoshop using polygon tool ?
Can you please help me identify this glamorous show font used in the 'Walk it out' text? Is it normal or a custom font?
TLDR: When I use the marquee tool to select a box around layer and then move it with the move tool, the selection box shrinks to surround the populated region of the layer. Is there a way to keep the selection box's dimensions, instead of it shrinking on move? Here's my situation: I have a uniform spritesheet made up of 30+ layers. I need to adjust different sprites in the sheet to different areas, but because the movement isn't uniform I need to do it sprite-by-sprite, layer-by-layer. I would save hours if I could just select a region and move the objects inside the region layer-by-layer, but because moving a selection with transparency shrinks the selection region to the populated areas, I have to reselect every time I switch layers. Any way to avoid the selection box shrinkage?
As seen on http://www.wendygladney.com Can you please identify the cursive/script font in this image?
Below is a screenshot of a small application I am building. I would like to cover the most significant colors from whole color spectrum, but I am missing lots of colors. I don't get the intended result; I don't see some colors like yellow or orange. I have 40 tiles arranged 8x5. I divided the RGB color spectrum of about 16 million colors by 40 and converted that value to a hex value so that it will be applied on the tiles. Fading/blending from cyan to red clearly isn't an approach that reaches all parts of the RGB spectrum. What did I miss, or how can I do that?
I have two primary needs: Build several documents with the same layout/styling Combine those separate ones into a single document For the first point I've discovered (I'm learning InDesign as I go) the usage of templates, which I have successfully implemented so far. For the second point I have two questions. 1. How do I merge the documents into one Here's what I do: I placed some elements (like page numbering) on separate layers in my template. I create my "full" document and import the other documents into it, skipping the layers I'm not interesting in, like page numbering. This way I have correct page numbering in my separate documents and in the full document. Is this a good practice? 2. How do I update the templates afterwards What if I need to change my template afterwards? As far as I understand, once you created a document from a template, it is actually not linked to it. Is it possible to reflect changes from the template into documents created from it?
I would like to make a logo that has two simplified branches of barley that mirror each other and curve to a perfectly circular shape, like the following from http://culination.co: I have tried to do it in Illustrator, Sketch and Pixelmator, but I can't seem to figure it out and can't find a tutorial. I tried making the pattern straight and curving it and when that didn't work, I tried making it curved, which was a total mess. Does anyone have an idea how to do this elegantly?
A friend and i are building a e-commerce site, but we really trying to create a brand that will be cool as well. Our target market are 15 - 29 year olds, so we want it quite funky. and it should be easy to remember. but using a single font for the name kinda dulls it down. So we tried different colors but it still doesn't feel like its distinct. So we are thinking about using more then one type face for the brand name. Is it a bad thing to use multiple type faces in a brand name? and if not what are the rules so that you don't end up with a cheep looking brand that people second guess at? we want the users experience to have them come to the store and know that its a trusted, well established store before they even purchase something. PS. is swapping from lower case to caps a bad idea haha..
I'm a full-time professional designer in the early middle of my career -- I have been working as a designer full-time for 15 years. I create lots of work that I am very proud of. However, when I look through something like a design annual, there is so much beautiful work that it makes me want to improve even more. I've been thinking about this, and I think I mean that I want to improve in an aesthetic sense (which I know is subjective). I want my design to look more beautiful and pleasing. I'm very confident with achieving the communication goals of my design, and I even like how a lot of my design looks. But I would love to reach that higher level of beauty the masters seem capable of. What should I do? How do I take my daily work to what I consider the next aesthetic level?
Suppose, I am creating a logo in a vector graphics editor (for example Inkscape) and I use there the font which cannot be freely distributed (for example Myriad Pro which can be obtained by downloading Adobe Reader). Then I convert the text, which uses the not-freely-distributable font, to "path" (for example, Inkscape can do it), so all the information about the used font will be lost. Is it legal to distribute such a logo (the font is no longer embedded in the logo, it was converted to path)?
By downloading Adobe Reader I obtain these fonts: Adobe Pi Std (regular) Courier Std (regular, bold, italic, bold-italic) Minion Pro (regular, bold, italic, bold-italic) Myriad Pro (regular, bold, italic, bold-italic) Is it legal to embed these fonts in a PDF and distribute that PDF?
I'm relatively new to InDesign and I just know that I'm going about this project in a less than ideal fashion. I've done a lot of Google searching about numbering, but I seem to know little enough about InDesign that I can't quite phrase my search right. Part of the reason I'm having trouble finding an answer is due to the way I want my document to be laid out. The simplest way to demonstrate this is with a picture: You can see here that I have a 3p0 offset for most of the body text of the survey from the edge of the text frame. A blue margin separator (currently obscured by a guide; sorry) is put in at 1p6 inside the text frame. The text frame itself is 1p6 offset from the document margin which is 1p6 offset from the page edge. I want my question numbers to appear just as they do here - between the document margin and the text frame - but I want the numbering to be automatic, and I want the numbers to follow along with the question text. Currently I am positioning and numbering manually. I generally understand auto numbering (that's what I'm using for the page numbers) and paragraph/table styles, but I'm still unable to figure this out. How can I achieve this effect in a more manageable way?
This might be a question with a stupidly easy answer: I have been casually using all of the adobe products for awhile. Although I have used Illustrator and InDesign the most, I occasionally use Photoshop. My question: when I am making something in photoshop, the background of the board sporadically changes between grey/white squares and a grey background - what is the purpose of this and how do I make it so that it stays a consistent color?
While I am formatting my indesign file, sometimes removing pages or adding them throws neatly formatted text off the margins. Why
My client has an InDesign catalog. Instead of manually updating it as he's done up to now, he'd like to import XML data into the InDesign file and not have to make any of the changes manually. However there is one major problem, the pages in the document tend to be very uneven in their layout. One page might be fairly airy while the next may barely contain all of the elements it needs to. As a result, my client needs to make the copy smaller on some pages. Is there a way to automate the size of the text from one page to the next when making an import so as to avoid overset text?
I want to use an image as an application launcher icon for my android application. The android guidelines specify an image for the launcher icon must be a 32 bit PNG image. Please explain the steps necessary to create a 32 bit png file with alpha. Or share a video link showing these steps, if any.
InDesign CS6. I'd like to know if there is a way of updating a linked file's displayed artboard (.ai) or page (.pdf) without having to go through the process of relinking the file. Currently upon adding a new artboard to a linked .AI I need to go through every instance of that link and: Browse for the file Select the import options Confirm Relink This gets tiresome when for example I have a file that is linked in several objects and for which different artboards are used at the same time inside the IND document. Just to clarify: I keep different versions of an icon inside one .AI so that modifying colors and symbols can be done in a single operation (as opposed to a workflow where you have one .AI for every icon version) The links panel seems to show the currently selected artboard in this format filename.extension:artboardnumber Is there a way to quickly change that artboard number? Thanks
If you invert the colors of a photo you make them the colours of their exact opposite and it usually creates this really nice effect. For example, in this tutorial, an image with browns and greens results in magentas and cyans. An original image of different colors would not produce the same magentas and cyans. My question is: How can I give an image that same inverted colors effect, and at the same time result in a specific color pallette, say the same magenta and cyan, with an original image of any colors? For example, I'd use an image with reds and yellows to give me the "inverted" effect with any colors I wish.
I am making a .gif file in Photoshop CS5. While saving this animation, I used the steps = File > Save for web & devices > Preset= GIF 128 Dithered > GIF > Save. After saving the .gif file it does not show the animation. So what is wrong with the procedure?
After lots of confusion and wasted effort I once learned that css also had this lines concept that everything else followed regardless of it being text or not. And that each line can be varied, be of different heights, and is the main culprit behind vertical align being so hard since everything else follows its line. Just like how things work in Ms Word. Is there a way to show those imaginary lines when trying to do something in css?
I'm trying to export a logo I created into PDF and EPS for a client and the file sizes are HUGE! The PDF is 78MB! The logo has lots of little diamonds on it which I duplicated, so I'm guessing it's all those little elements making it that huge. Normally when I do a logo the file sizes are pretty small, as opposed to if it were a bitmap/raster file. Needless to say this is not going to work out, I need to know how to flatten some layers or do something to make the file sizes more manageable. I can't e-mail the client the vector files of the final product. The .AI file isn't even that huge, how can I minimize the file size of this project?
I have to admit that I'm a newbie to Illustrator. (Bezier curves I've never got!) I have a design that I'm preparing for laser cutting and it needs it in EPS/SVG. I see the Save as SVG option but its saving the whole file (i.e. all my layers*) - not just what is showing. Is the only way to do it to Print to a postscript file and convert from that?? Seems a bit nuts I realise now that layers in Illustrator is not like photoshop!
I am trying to create a design like the following image: I tried to replicate this by creating another layer and changing the blending options (adding a drop shadow) for it. This is the image I ended up with (missed that separation kind of design), I was not satisfied with the results. Here are the settings I used for my attempt: Click image for full resolution How can I produce the 3D effect done in the first image?
I'm using illustrator to create a piece of artwork. I've used several transparent layers (small circles). Since I'm using a transparent effect, do I need to rastarize or flatten it? I tried flattening but those transparent circles changed back to their original color (back to 100%, no more transparency). This is for commercial printer to make 1000 copies of it. I'm sending the files in PDF.
I searched the site but couldn't find anything relating to tattoo design, I believe it's a relevant GD form and would like to cover some of the basics here. What are necessary considerations a graphic designer should make when designing a tattoo? More specifically, what must a GD consider regarding: Ink Colour Limitations Line Widths Uneven Surface of Skin Fine Details Please feel free to add any topics of consideration I've missed. Just to be clear, I'm asking about designing a tattoo, not drawing it on skin.
Anyone have an idea how can the defaults of the "Reset to Default" button be reset, after being set with the "Make Default" button without reverting all the other photoshop settings. I would be very happy with a single-effect reset solution only, but one for all styles would do as well. P.S. I am looking for a way not to delete the "Adobe Photoshop CS6 Prefs.psp" file. If there is no such, a guide for editing it would be greatly appreciated! Thanks very much in advance!
Is there a way to export objects to separate files in Illustrator? The output I want is AI or vector files, not raster images. The objects are not on separate artboards, and I am looking for a solution that does not require them to be. (Putting the objects into separate art boards would take as much time as copying and pasting them into separate documents, which is what I am trying to streamline.) My use case: I am designing characters in a font, and each font contains upwards of a hundred characters. I need to get each character into a separate file in order to bulk import them into my font program.
Let's say, I have a logo of website, with size 120x50px. Favicon should be 16x16px to be supported by major browsers. How it is possible to rework some image, making it smaller nearly in 10 times, and save the basic look?
I have done a lot of work on a lot of files. To give them to a new designer working for us, I have put them on an external HDD and passed them over. But he now has to open up every file individually and relink them to the External HDD or his own HDD. This is really time consuming (there are hundreds of documents). Is there a quicker way to do this? We really only need to be able to tell InDesign that the front of the image location has changed, as all of the other parts of the file structure are the same. This would save me loads of time, and I'm sure there must be a solution...
In the Export Tagging settings in InDesign CC, there is an option to use a custom tag as well as a custom class name. However, if the class is left blank then the Style Name is used in its place. Is it possible to not have InDesign assign a class automatically? Here is my scenario: I would like to not clutter up my HTML markup by having a class name of body for all my p tags, when I could simply use p without a class and style it in my CSS. Thank you in advance.
I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how to create an embossed texture. A picture worth thousands words, so please check this image: You can see on the upper sole that the surface has a "multiple dots" texture. My question is: How can I make this in 3DS Max, or similar? If you know any tutorial that uses this kind of technique, please let me know. I've heard of multiscatter plugin but I feel like in this case it's using heavy machinery just to do this little job, but maybe I'm wrong. What I want is not a flat texture, I really want it to look real so the dots have to have a height even if it's very small. Last thing, in the picture it's dots, but what if I want to use another shape?
To explain it further How can I create a skeleton or a mould of a photo-frame which would receive a small image of the frame style/pattern as input and convert it into a full rectangular frame with a image placeholder in the middle? In this way I will be able to create different frame styles of different sizes quickly with a more professional looking output. As of now I am doing this work manually which is timetaking and not so sleek-looking. On Graphicsriver I saw a lot of PSDs available but in them the frame style has to stay the same and there is not a single template where there is a placeholder for the frame style. Hope I am easy to understand. Here's what I mean. I had tried to ask something similar previously and the solution I got was pretty effective and I have been following that path ever since but still I think there's even a better way do this. Any help will be deeply appreciated. What are the best programs to achieve this. (I love PS.)
Say I take this pic: and turn it into this (plus adding title and name of author): And then use it as a cover for a book at Amazon. Is that copyright infringement?
How do I copy a layer in Photoshop in the traditional method of selecting an area and CtrlC while maintaining the layer and it's applied effects? I don't want to drag and drop the layer; I prefer the way File → New will set the size of the new canvas to the size of the selected area.
Please help me identify a font or a similar font that I can use. I want a font that makes letters out of dot on a dot matrix font like "THE MODEL" is written on this image:
Can you help me find a font this cool?
I am a web developer but I am noob in designing. I have an html page of size 640 pixel * 800 pixel. I have converted this html page to pdf using wkhtmltopdf. But my boss is saying that we need to print this in 300 DPI. So make it so that it looks good. I am not understanding how to treat pixel with dots?
I need to copy an icon from a design that has a vector mask in photoshop. How can I do it so I get the icon to paste exactly as I see it in the design, so it can (for example) be added to a css image sprite and used online.
Original Image: My try: This is the image. I tried using Polygonal Lasso Tool, but the edges don't appear to be OK. Is there more precise way to remove the background and leave the letters and the logo icon on a transparent background?
I found the tool Timeline from Pixel Novel, but I wondered if I could use any subversions app to manage my design files. I'm not sure to understand everything about Subversions yet, and I did not found a lot of information about his usage in the design field.
I recently created some tickets that were professionally printed then hand folded into an origami heart shape. We used 170 GSM paper and I'm not sure what ink the printers used. They arrived beautiful, but once the folding began the ink started to rub off around the folded edges. Our bodge was to colour in the immediately visible edges with a colouring pen. It was for a student event with a tiny budget, I wouldn't do that with a real client. What ink and paper combination would be best to make sure the ink doesn't rub off in future? What manual tools are available for hand-folding? Here's an example (the example was coloured in with a badly matched shade of red and was not sold, others were much better but I don't have any left):
I'm looking for a Unicode character that will be as similar as possible to the Avengers logo. Even without the circle. Anything that will hint at that logo for people who know it I'm not sure something like this exists, how can I go about searching for it?
In "Corel Draw X6" there are drawn lines which overlap ever so slightly to make it appear as a closed figure. How can I fill the area that is bounded by mentioned lines (because now it is transparent)? Sorry for a probably silly question. I'm actually a mathematics student, not a graphics person, but I need to make some changes from time to time and university offers only fancy tools such as "Corel Draw".
Using "Push" and "Pull" should be quite straightforward, you read the word and follow the instructions. But day after day I see people in my office coming to the door and pushing when they should pull or viceversa. What would be a good alternative way of representing Push/Pull, using visuals instead? This probably won't mean people will suddenly have an epiphany and instantly understand the instruction. I imagine there has to be a graphic that the brain understands faster than the sign with the words...
I am using Inkscape to export .svg files to LaTeX-PDF using the following command: inkscape --without-gui --file="<file>.svg" --export-pdf="<file>.pdf" --export-latex It generates a pdf document containing the "images" and a .pdf_tex document which is written in LaTeX, includes the .pdf file and fills it with the text contained in the .svg file. This works fine and most of the time the text is exactly at the position where it was placed inside the .svg file. But sometimes the text is out of place, because obviously the fonts used are not the same. For example in one of my .svg files I have a box with text in it. When I export this file the text runs over the border of the box. I would like to know if it is possible to get rid of this problem for example by changing the font size via command line to something smaller. EDIT: To provide you with a minimal working example: You can use PlantUML to generate an SVG that has this problem. example.txt: @startuml example.svg class AClass{ + void valueChanged(String key, String value); } @enduml You can generate this example .svg file using PlantUML with its -tsvg flag, like this: java -jar "plantuml.jar" -tsvg example.txt

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