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When making and experimenting with color schemes in Illustrator, I usually use a few base hue values (H) and start playing around with saturation (S) and brightness (B). Since I like similar value in my colors, I like trying identical S/B values for the different hues, but I have to change these values one object at a time. Is there a way to select multiple objects, each with different hue value, and set saturation and / or brightness at the same level for them, while retaining the original hue?
What is the best way to enlarge or shrink a shape drawn using the shape tool; By pressing CTRL T and resizing OR By using the direct path selection tool and dragging selected anchor points? Is there a noteworthy difference? If so, what?
Is there a commonly used design specification system to present a graphic design to a customer before we start the implementation? My challenge is specifically on mailings (PDF A4, HTML sent per mail), but I am happy to hear any insight from other domains (web design, advertising, ...) My goal is to present a document, that the customer could sign-off, and representing the actual design. Once the document is signed-off, we can start the implementation; and have very little risk that the customer is unhappy with the actual product; or request many changes afterwards. Especially, I'm trying to avoid multiple round trips after implementation where the customer asks: "Can you move this box a bit to the left?", "Hum, can you move it a bit to the bottom?", "Can this image be a bit more blue?", "Hum, can this field be a bit larger?", "This works fine in GMail, but I'm not happy with Lotus Notes!" I understand that iterative approaches, either billed as Time&Material, or with a capped effort, are probably better fit for that. (and if you use them, as a professional designer, please let me know too). Yet, in some projects, the customer needs a waterfall approach for some reasons. I'd like to know how to handle those cases best.
A perfect curve looks something like this image: When I try to draw a similar curve shape in Illustrator, I couldn't get the above effect. It's just about 85% perfect. As you see closely, there are 'SHARP EDGES' along the object: I'm sure there are AI experts here. How can I achieve the perfect curve using the pen tool? It would be great if you guys can share links of lessons to do it as well.
Why doesn't The Gimp have drawing tools? Weird isn't it? Something I'm trying to do today, and not for the first time, is take in a picture and just annotate it with a couple of arrows pointing to particular things I want to highlight. And, again, I'm surprised to discover that there's no "arrow-drawing" tool. Or any basic geometric shape tools. The Gimp is the natural place to do what I'm doing (annotate a bitmap), not Inkscape nor LibreOffice Draw. But this functionality is surprisingly NOT THERE (presumably because Gimp is meant to be for painting not vector drawing.) But this is such an obvious use-case that I'm surprised no-one has ever tried to add these tools. Do I just not know how to find the right tool, or does The Gimp not support shapes?
I want to copy and paste one picture into another one using Gimp. I have a picture with 200x200 pixels and 72dpi. The 72dpi are not enough to print the image in the size specified in its header. Therefore, I want to reduce it to half its printing size, but keep the 200x200 pixels to get to a 144dpi resolution. Since the picture I'm pasting has rather low quality, I want to reduce its size within the other picture and at the same time increase the resolution (that is, keep the number of pixels constant). However, the only option I found was the Print Size function, which does not seem to affect the size of the pasted image relative to the picture it is pasted into.
I'm designing a magazine, and it's trim size is 272mm x 342mm when printed. One of my other test InDesign files is 222mm x 291mm at trim size (a fictitious local tourist guide). What paper size would it be equivalent to - I know A4 is 210mm x 297mm, but what would 222mm x 291mm and 272mm x 342mm be equivalent to as printed paper sizes? I've looked up paper size converters on Google but couldn't find anything that would give an approximate answer, only the generic sizes of paper, for A4, A5, A3 etc. but not custom sizes. (The magazine in question is not an actual project, this question is more general InDesign for educational-related since I'm learning this as a skill - not relating to a real work project)
Sorry about the title but I'm not quite sure how to word it. Hopefully this will help explain it more: Click image to enlarge
I want to combine two individual paths in Photoshop. Though I do add the paths and do Ctrl + Enter, it shows marching ants on the combine path, but the paths don't combine. Why is that?
How do I set the Round cap and Round join as the default line behaviour in Illustrator? Now when I create a line the cap is set to Butt cap and Miter join by default.
I'm using Corel Draw X6. I have drawn a vector curve facing to the left. When I rotate it to the right, reangle and resize, it becomes jagged. How can I fix this.
Here is a quick example sketch: This is supposed to be a big, strong, evil, imposing demon-sculpture, but to me it just looks a bit too cute and cuddly. What should I be doing to make it look more scary?
Often when I am designing for the web (be it mocks, or full spreads of websites) I have many repeating elements throughout my document. I am looking to follow the Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY) philosophy. One case: I am designing a mockup to illustrate the path of the user through a website. I do this by starting at a tabula rasa page which includes the default state of the website. Then, I copy this page and tweak it to fit the next step of the user's interaction. Then, some small aspect of the page will change (the header color for example), and I'll be forced to make that change to every step in my mock. So, is there software that allows me to make sections of my design once (header, footer, sidebar, a set of buttons, etc.), reuse them, and then make changes in only one place if needed? This is something akin to partials from Rails or Microsoft MVC if you're familiar, but for design software.
I need to make several diagrams with many precisely-size, consecutive, bordered boxes. I'm snapping all the edges of my boxes, but box strokes are inlaid; it looks like snapping the edge to the grid determines the maximum extent of the box. The side-effect is that when I put boxes next to one another on the grid borders appear doubled. Here's an example of what I'm talking about: What's the best work-around for this? I've come up with a few ways to cope, but most of them involve making bizarre sized boxes that are hard to color fill.
I'd like to find similar fonts to Bebas (below): What do you call these types of fonts? Thick, tall, and usually all in uppercase?
I'm a huge fan of shortcuts that makes my work easier. I have a set of little tricks in my PS that make my work blazing fast, today I was thinking if there is a possibility to put a copied color in HEX e.g. example i opened Color Picker and copied "#761111" to clipboard now I want to apply it to a shape without opening it's color picker. Maybe some kind of action, script or whatever that will set that HEX as my foreground or background color or put it directly to a shape. Any ideas?
Basically the question is divided into three parts - What size should I start with on an iPad? At what size do the Graphic Assets need to be passed to the developer? What about the same items on an iPhone? With the plethora of devices available --and particularly if I would have to design for an iPhone or iPad-- where should I start detailed design exactly? Should it be for lower res (say 1024 x 768 px for iPad) or should I do it on a higher resolution as for Ipad 2? In case I do it for a higher resolution, should the ppi be at 72 or higher (and how much higher)? Can I work on 1024 x 768 layout and do the icons scaled up by increasing the ppi? Should I make the detail design at 1024 x 768, leaving the developer to scale it up 2x times through code for the newer iPad versions (which means I share lower version of icon artifacts to developer)? Is there any other means of defining the layout size? And again, does the same also apply to iPhone layout?
Is there a way to blur just the text in any image, automatically? I have a lots of PNG images with text(s) in them. And I have to blur all of it from all of them. Is there a way to automate this?
I am quite new to GIMP. I created some text and set it along a path. I created a selection with the same shape as my text. If I try to fill this selection with a color (Cmd. or Cmd,) GIMP appears to fill the selection, yet I see no visible color. Why isn't the color fill visible?
I tried to draw like this picture but failed. I used Dia. What can I use to help draw it? I'm using Ubuntu, so software that runs on Unix operating systems would be preferred.
They say you start to see the pixels in an image when it is printed around 200 dpi/ppi or less, right? I'm looking at some images here at 100% view in photoshop, and when I open the image size window, it tells me that the images are between 70-100 ppi each. However, I measured the images on my screen and they are both larger than the shown print size, AND I see no pixels or other signs of poor quality in the image being displayed on my monitor. So my question is: Why would the image print in less quality/smaller size than it displays? Is it really necessary to print in 200+ ppi (or the more recommended 267-360 for HQ) to get a quality print, or am I missing something here? Since many are unique designs that I've spent a fair amount of time on, I'd hate to have to discard, upsample, or restart from scratch. Any help you can provide would be much appreciated.
What software is useful for designing buildings with accurate measurements? I originally trained with AutoCAD a long time ago but haven't needed to use any modelling softwares since, I'm wondering if there is anything more suitable nowadays. I'm looking for open source and paid softwares if possible, to research them a little more before I make my choice. Thanks in advance.
I should create a vector rectangle filled with a gradient made of 4 colors, one for each corner. I could just find some very generic information about using live blends, but I am not sure that is the best tool and still I was not able to do this. How would you get that in Illustrator exactly? (And secondary in Photoshop?)
I'm working on layout for a 300-page trilingual “coffee table” style textbook, and one of the languages uses a glottal stop symbol which the chosen body text font can't handle. This means that for every instance of this symbol, the font must change to TNR and then back to the font of the main body text. I sincerely hope there a way I can automate this, perhaps with styles. At the moment I'm using a find-replace to change the fonts individually and semi-manually, which is tedious and accident-prone. Is there a tool or method in InDesign which will automatically recognize a particular symbol and change its font whenever that symbol appears?
Can I have multiple slice layouts in Photoshop? I want to have multiple slice layouts and switch between them. Is it possible in Photoshop?
I am making graphics for a 3 meter big stall. I was thinking about making its background as hexagons. Big hexagons. These will be in a constant pattern, but not joined, that means, a few millimeter gap between each. I tried these but they didn't look very good. I've seen many tutorials on how to give things a shiny, glassy effect, all were for circles. I've been trying a lot on searching and to do it myself for hexagons, but can't come to a conclusion. I basically want a shiny patch on each of the hexagons that'll make it look like they are reflecting light, just like this: Can anyone help me get this effect for a hexagon?
I'm trying to use the text tool in Photoshop, but any text I type in any font (including base fonts such as Arial) is unconditionally uppercased. I tried to copy-paste a lowercase text, and it gets uppercased as well. Any idea how to stop me pulling my hair out?
I've seen many times an icon to represent "random" that looks like this: But does anyone else feel this icon is awkward? I can understand what it wants to express, but it's just not that straight forward. People have to think about it to really understand what it's referring to. What would be another alternative to this icon?
I'm really stuck thinking on what could be the most friendly way to represent "Blog" as icon. Google search led me here but it doesn't indicate a blog completely. I have designed this: but it doesn't look promising either. It more looks like writing on a sheet of paper. How do I make changes in this so as to look like writing on a "blog". P.S.: I'm designing icons for a website where there are links for 'Wiki', 'Forum', 'Blog' etc and those links are supposed to be icons.
I'm trying to find the term (if any exists) for this: What is it called when the size of individual or groups of words are increased proportionally in size so that they are all the same width?
I have two pictures of irregular shape with transparent background and a background image. How can I join these two pictures to make them fade with each other, but not with the background image?
When taking a screenshot of some text with subpixel rendering, the result is very ugly, especially in print. Obviously, the best way to avoid this is to deactivate that option before taking the screenshot but let's say we already have a screenshot where this didn't happen and that's difficult to replicate. What is the best way to mitigate the colour fringe artefacts? Here's a small part of a screenshot as an example: The text on the white background is the easy part. Here's a partly desaturated picture: Far from perfect but good enough for me. Now with the blue button, the desaturation obviously wouldn't work: The best I could come up with so far is to desaturate locally and then do a "color" overlay with a layer containing only the blue button with the text edited out: Unfortunately, the result is quite awful: The "Hue" overlay mode in gimp doesn't do anything useful at all in this case which I don't quite understand. So I'm quite lost since I have the feeling that this should be solvable but I don't know what to try anymore. If I need Photoshop for this then so be it but I'd prefer an open source solution if at all possible. One last thing for the record: I found that upscaling the picture by a factor of 2 with some good interpolation (I used Lanczos) vastly improves the look of the clumsy manipulation in print.
It's a sans serif like Futura or Neutraface or Gotham or Brandon--but, it's got sharp corners (unlike Brandon), and the central point of the cap M reaches the baseline. And, it's a point--it's not cut off flat.
I've been working on some pixel art lately and whenever I import a PSD or bitmap into my library in Flash Professional it sets the compression option to JPEG. I want it to be PNG lossless and disable "allow smoothing". It's getting really annoying to have to do this every time I import a file.
I'm trying to create a curved line with the pen tool, which I can do, but it automatically fills in the semicircle I'm trying to make. Sure, I can just set it to not fill, but when it comes times to rasterization, it fills in the semicircle automatically. After that, it is rather hopeless I think. I tried setting Blend to Clear but then nothing will show.... All I'm trying to do is connect a curved line shape to other shapes. I tried just making a path in pen tool and doing "combine other shapes" but that doesn't work for some reason? I am using CS6 here. How do I alleviate the problem of auto-fill after rasterization? I can use Magic Eraser tool I found out to delete the autofill after rasterization, but I'm wondering if there is a different way.
I would like to print out 100-150 assorted fonts from Google Fonts on nice paper for clients to be able choose from, for website builds. Is there a recommended way to do this? I'm wondering if there's already a PDF or if it's easier to print all of them, that's fine too. I just have not found a good example of all (or many) of the Google Fonts in a printable layout that I can show to clients.
I've always done web mockups in Photoshop, recently I switched to Illustrator because I thought it could speed up my work flow (And it did!) As I design more and more for responsive web sites though, I feel like even Illustrator isn't ideal and there are some quirks that make it somewhat of a more cumbersome process. I'm wondering if anyone can suggest some tools that they have used in regards to mocking up responsive web sites? I've heard of Balsamiq and I've actually heard InDesign has some new features in the Creative Cloud that are worth revisiting when it comes to responsive mockups. If you've had some experience in responsive web design could you suggest a work flow or the pros and cons of some tools that are out there. Thanks
I am a graphic designer and I have never done packaging design before. What is the process when it comes to branding packaging? Do you use templates depending on what you are branding. e.g. Beer bottle, box of chocolates? Is there a program that makes it easier to display your graphics on the specific object? I want to create some examples for my portfolio.
I was browsing logo examples, which represent some not symmetric object (usually in movement, like - trains, cars, plains, etc). And realized, that logos, where 'movement' is from left to right look more attractive to me (not considering other characteristics), than right to left. Have you noticed it? I have a suggestion, that effect of such kind of logos depends on each person brain leading hemisphere. So my leading hand is right. That would mean that making this kind of logos move from left to right will make it attractive to absolute majority of people (70+%), and is better just from statistical point of view. Do you know some researched-based information on these specific topic?
Does The GIMP have some sort of function to highlight areas of the background where that are not overlapped by any layers? I'm making a sprite for CSS, and I have a lot of pics with different sizes. I'm trying to use any free space that I can get, but because over 90% of these images have transparent background, so I can not see the borders of layers. I can't see where and how much background space is free for other small pics. Like this:
I'm trying to create a web icon using expression design. Its 45x45 pixels in size, and I've set the PPI to 96, exporting to .PNG with Antialias & Transparency. It doesn't look crisp when I look at it in my page, and it looks pretty blurry when viewing it on my mobile. I've turned on pixel preview, and when I zoom in I can see that on straight lines there is a row of pixels shaded between the two (rather than pixels being either on or off) which seems to be the cause of the problem I have enabled the following options: Snap to Pixels Snap to Points Snap to Guides Here is the exported icon: It's pretty simple, but if you look at the edges of the pound symbol, they are fuzzy; more so on a mobile device. Is there anything else I should be doing in order to get a crisp looking icon?
I’m working on an UI app design for both Android and IPhone. I’m using Adobe Illustrator. Now I’m facing the problem that the exportation of assets is a nightmare. I need to create a different document only for assets, and create 6 pages for each icon, with the same symbol scaled. Symbols don’t behave correctly with pixel perfection even if the option “align to pixel grid” is activated. So I’m forced to break the link to the symbol, so all this job is not going to be valid when in the future I will need to redesign icons again. I want to export to PNG files with transparency. I need to export an icon to various PNG sizes, and then repeat the same process for all icons. Then after export, I have to move the images to their folders and rename them, as both Android and iOs require. Honestly, there should be a way to automate the export. With this system, there is no way to update all icons without missing one of them. For PhotoShop I have found: http://www.cutandslice.me/ but should exist something similar for Illustrator, isn’t it? Now that Adobe is going to stop developing Fireworks, there should be a good tool for UI design. Does Adobe have any? I hope someone can please share a workaround for this. Thank you very much!
I have visited a page discussing the calculations required to rotate an image for tiling purposes. I am still very stuck. I've even tried using the automated tool inside the G'MIC plugin in GIMP. This is the single bucket I am starting with: This is the result I'm trying to achieve: I need the buckets to line up when tiled. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
So I'm new to graphic design as a whole, but I've worked with layered PSD files before. I don't have Photoshop, but I do have a copy of Pixelmator. Clearly a cheaper alternative, but obviously not Photoshop. So, I created a layered file in Pixelmator and now I want to implement it. Obviously there are situations where a couple layers together need to make a single image. How can I export those layers without copying the layers and making a new file just to export them? Can't I export those layers from that master file?
I want to know how to alter the animation speed of some text appearing across a banner. The default is too fast. I'm trying to set the duration of time that each state shows for. Thanks in advance!
I'm doing a new website for a business and it's going to involve some original graphics: a large drawing that will get used for various background elements, and two medium-sized looping Flash or GIF animations that will be used on a splash screen and a product page, respectively. I've already completed a lot of the coding backend, but now that I'm up to the graphics, I'm trying to work out what terms I should set with the client. They are paying me at an hourly rate, as an employee, and I was wondering if I should charge extra for the rights to the images I create, but I don't know if being an employee makes the rights company property (again, NZ, not US.). I've had a look at similar questions on here, and formed some consensus of good general practice, but my situation differs by one critical point: I am actually working for the client in question as an employee, rather than contracting as a designer (I interviewed for a workshop/manufacturing position, but when they saw some web work on my CV they took me on to build them a new website instead, as they were in dire need of an update.) The hourly rate they're giving me is slightly more than my current qualifications/experience (i.e: basically zilch) would otherwise justify, so I don't want to stiff them too much by charging heaps - but, as others have said in the questions I've found, I don't want to undercut other people in the industry either. I also don't know what will happen RE: copyright. If it helps: I'm living/working in New Zealand, so some of the relevant legalities may differ from the US-based terms discussed in the other posts.
How do I get rid of the white edges on this exported .pngs? I have tried many different options (changing 8 bit to 16 bit, save for web, interlaced) and nothing seems to work. I also attached an image of what it looks like in Photoshop.
I've seen this kind of divider all over the web, how do I make this with Photoshop?
I have a font in TrueType and OpenType format that I really like. I would like to replace one character in this font with another character. Specifically, I would like to make underscores look like spaces. What is the simplest and most efficient way to do this?
I've got a grunge texture JPEG that I downloaded from Premium Pixels that looks like this: and a text layer on a black background. I want to blend or overlay the image file to create a worn-out, distressed, grunge texture effect on the text layer. So far I've tried applying the image to my text layer as a clipping mask, with the Blend Mode: Multiply, and lowering the opacity to 50%. My Photoshop set-up looks like: I'm aiming for an effect that looks more like the one in this image: How can I apply the texture layer to the text to give this worn, distressed, grunge look similar to the one in my example image? Click on images to see larger versions. A bounty has previously been offered on this question and awarded to an answer.
In a large company environment client projects are delegated to teams. That said, if your team is completing a website for a client and you happen to run across a large design and code issue but your team leader chooses to ignore it, how should you handle this? It would affect the whole team if it wasn't addressed so should you just document the issue or address the issue to someone higher up?
I have frequently found that Helvetica appears as a missing font when I open a PS file, I have Helvetica on my system so is there a way to readdress the missing fonts of a PS file to another font? Normally I do this manually... but it will be better to have something more automatic... It appers that "Helvetica" font does not exists on Windows Systems, just Helvetica LTD, NEUE, etc. Am I right?
For example in these images, what are the 'dirty spots' brushes applied to them called? I am newbie in PS and trying to figure it out.
I zoom a lot and need to move the current viewport...is there a way to move it with mouse wheel click like in other programs? Currently I must go to the scrolling bars for adjusting X and Y view. Thanks!
I am very familiar with template creation for Coreldraw but I have never done this before in Illustrator nor did I see the question from a search. How do you properly create a template and where should you place it to work well in Illustrator with the command ShiftCtrlN? If I save the file as an .ait will it save it in the default location?
I've been given an Illustrator assignment where I have a number of 100mm x 100mm squares in which I have to design using just shapes, and black and white colour, something corresponding to a descriptive word such as 'tumble', 'condensed', 'bold' or 'momentum', using fundamental design principles such as contrast, size, shape, colour etc. I'm finding it quite hard to come up with anything other than a depiction of the literal meaning, eg. repeated shapes going down the page for tumble; lots of shapes squeezed into one big shape for condensed; and for bold, I can use contrast of size or shape or both. I am wondering how I could take these 'themes' and develop them more to evoke the theme in a less direct/obvious way? They just seem too easy, or that there is not that much to the concepts, and I feel the whole point of the exercise is to develop a concept using the basic building blocks of design, not just put pretty shapes on paper.
I have 100,000 identically-sized, but unique, PNG/JPG images which I want to automatically layout onto A4 sheets which can then be exported as print-ready PDFs. So assuming I can fit 8 of these images per page in a 4x2 grid, I'm looking to input my 100,000 images and output 12,500 PDFs. I'm a programmer so I could probably write a script to do this myself (e.g. PHP/Python), but I was wondering whether there are any tools/scripts/software that already exists that can do this automatically.
Im trying to get type to sit on a path, so far ive been able to get it to work but when i try and get the type to sit the right way round (ie. not upside down) it sits on the inside of the path, which is on the wrong side of the circle (as the first image below). I could align the circle by eye, but im sure there must be an easier way. Is there a way to get the top of the type to site on the path as the sketch (second image below) ? Ive also attached an .ai file if any one wants to play around with it. - https://www.dropbox.com/s/ngvexixdckftkpt/type-on-path.ai
I have a client inquiring about the following image having the gears rotate constantly, and also have mouse over interaction shown by the one gear and text being darker. How would one go about doing this without Flash?
I am not able to preview SVG files in Adobe Bridge since CS2 version. Has Adobe removed this feature or am I missing something? I'm using both Windows and Mac, version CC and CS6.
1) When I am copying a logotype from one Illustrator document to another the colours are changing slightly. Anybody know why this could be? I am noticing that the CMYK values are also changing, so it is not only how it looks like. The "old" document is created in cs5 and I am now working in cs6. Maybe it could have to do with this? How do I fix it? 2) I have the Pantone values written down for the colours of the logotype. When I put the same Pantone colour in the "new" document it becomes a different colour again (the same as when I dragged the logo into the new document). It is not the same! why? I need to be able to tell clients what are the Pantone colours of the logotype, so this is a huge problem.. I am very thankful if somebody can help me with this!
I want to create a noise effect using Adobe Illustrator. Inside the hexagonal shape there is some kind of texture effect, I don't know what the name of this effect is: How can I create such an effect in Adobe Illustrator? or is it created using Photoshop?
I'm trying to figure out the name for, or a collection of, the kinds of images that "fade-into" a solid color. For example, twitter has this image: This allows them to add a background image that doesn't have a large file size, and then they set the background color of the website to be the color of the bottom of the image. The end result makes it look as if the entire page is an image: Does anyone know if a name exists for images like this that "fade-into" a color or if there's a place where these kinds of images are posted? Thanks.
I prepared a square and a triangle in Gimp but I am unable to get a shadow around it. I want it exactly like the image below. I tried with filter --> lights and shadow --> Drop shadow but it casts a shadow on one side only. In addition on one side there is too much shadow. I was unable to make a shadow on all sides (i.e. completely around the square). I saw a similar question here, but it is for Photoshop. I don't have Photoshop. I checked whether the same procedures exist in Gimp, but couldn't find them. I only started Gimp a few days back. Can someone please tell me how to achieve this in Gimp?
I would need to measure the quality of a printed material in an offset printing procedure. There is any kind of points per square inch or something similar? I cannot find any kind of information regarding the quality of offset printing, that's why I'm questioning this here. Thanks for your time, (:
What is the industry standard term for a set of color guidelines for a brand identity? Logo Usage Guidelines Brand Identity Guidelines Something else? Edit: As Scott mentioned "whatever works". There does not seem to be any strict term, however searching for "brand guideline", "brand guide", or "brand style guide" appears to produce the most authoritative results. Substituting "Identity" for "Guide" will also yield good results. It should be mentioned that these guides do far more than dictate color usage, I highly recommend reading some samples for anyone who is interested. For examples check out this list: http://www.logodesignlove.com/brand-identity-style-guides
I love Illustrator for graphic design, but for tablet drawing it's a real pain. Why? You can't rotate the artboard like you do in Photoshop. When drawing on real paper it's very natural for me to rotate the paper for making lines in certain directions. When using the pen, you can't see what you are drawing until the shape is done. Sure you see a preview in the layer color, but unless you are drawing on a white background it's not always perfectly visible. The blob brush works well in that aspect but then it's not the right tool for other reasons. Can you recommend a vector software for mac that has those features? I just want to be able to draw vectors naturally with my tablet... and I stil haven't found a good option.
I'm creating a wi-fi icon in Photoshop, using three circles and subtracted paths. Now I need to remove the subtracted area and combine the three shape layers into one shape layer without rasterizing. This is what I want to do: How can I do it?
I'm trying to find the name of this highlighted image element to look for similar vector icons. I tried to search by "link", but can't find anything like it. How can I recreate this shape using a program like Inkscape or similar?
Can anyone help me with this problem: I am having problem with Right-to-Left writing with the Old Turkic font. Turkish is written with extended Latin letters left-to-right but: Old Turkic is a Turkish variation which is written Right-to-Left, defined in Unicode Standard 5.2 Range 10C00-10C4F (Central Asian Languages group). I have all the Unicode fonts with this range that support both the characters codes defined by the standard and the glyphs are ok. I also use a custom designed keyboard layout designed with Microsoft Keyboard Layout Designer (MKLD). In the design test window I can write from Right-to-Left as it should be. I can also write Right-to-Left without problems in the default Windows Notepad. Now what heppens in Adobe Illustrator CS6 and Photoshop CS6: In Illustrator the only problem is Right-to-Left writing. But the glyphs are ok: Screen shot of Adobe Illustrator CS6: Now when I copy paste this text to Photoshop I only see empty boxes incase of letters(glyphs): Screen shot of Adobe Photoshop CS6 Part-1: When I change Edit > Preferences > Type > Text Engine settings of Photoshop From Middle Eastern to East Asian, I can see the glyphs when I rewrite the text (not on the text previously written) but I lose the right-to-left writing feature: Screen shot of Adobe Photoshop CS6 Part-2: Some additional files that might be relevant: The keyboard layout can be downloaded on my dropbox from here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/siddv9k7mjafzpr/Gök%20Türkçe%20Q%20Klavye%20Düzeni.rar (foreign characters not recognised by SE, but copy-and-pasting the link works) The font file turkic.tff can be downloaded on my dropbox from here. (license not specified) Can anybody help me to make Adobe Photoshop display the characters as I want them, from right-to-left?
I need to apply shadow to an overarching border, however so far I've created the shadow with CSS, and since the overarching border is formed by two boxes, the shadow overlaps. My solution to this is to cover up the overlapping part with an image that looks like a seamless blend, however I'm not sure how the shadows should look, when they meet like that. Please see the blue circle area. How can I figure out how the natural shadow blend would look for an example like this? I can use Adobe Photoshop or GIMP to achieve this.
In GIMP, you can (in various modes) draw a constrained straight line which will "snap" the line you're drawing to the nearest 15 degree angle, making it easy to draw lines in a precise direction. For example, in paintbrush mode, you do this by clicking one point, releasing, holding shift+ctrl, then moving the cursor to the next point of the line and clicking. Is there any way to do this in paths mode? I can't seem to use this method to get an exactly horizontal path segment, for example.
I have read on a number of blogs that the seams that you see in Illustrator from applying a pattern to an object is due to anti-aliasing and that if you print from Illustrator that it will print fine. My concern is that when I save my work to PDF the seam shows up there as well. I don't want a client to see the seam and think there is something wrong. I also don't want to tell them not to worry about it. I want it to look correct from the get go. I am creating invitations for weddings and just started using the pattern tool/feature of Illustrator. Any ideas or process I should follow? Update I am building a simple pattern diagonal line pattern like the one in this tutorial, http://www.bittbox.com/illustrator/how-to-create-a-seamless-diagonal-pattern-in-illustrator
I made a bar graph in Illustrator using Pattern Swatches for the diagonal stripes: In Illustrator, this looks perfect and saves as a vector. However, this graph is going to be published, and apparently Pattern Swatches are problematic for some types of publishing (sometimes the pattern simply drops out, or fills solid, or even changes color). Is there an easy way to make stripe fill like this without using Pattern Swatches?
I'm involved with a project that needs a few icons to represent some categories. Some of them aren't that difficult to represent graphically, however I'm having a hard time thinking of how time is represented graphically. Specifically, I need two simple icons to represent both past and future. I tried looking up other representations, but the best I can find are arrows pointing left and right. However, these are very unclear and would just be confusing to the user. My question is, how has time been graphically represented throughout history? EDIT: This edit is for my specific purpose. However, I'm still really interested in the bigger question of 'How was time been graphically represented'. Since I didn't provide context, I'll clarify a bit. I'm working on an app that allows users to take a picture of something, tag it with 1 of 5 categories, and then upload it so that everybody can see all of these notes (optionally sorted by these tags) on a map. The purpose of the app (right now) is specific to Madison, Wisconsin - and is trying to showcase the cool things the city has to offer. The 5 tags are Madison Culture, Must Do Things, Innovations at UW, 'Stories of the Past', and '100 Years From Now'. Stories of the Past are cool things that have happened in the city, excluding inventions and such (innovations) - so not really 'stories' in the book sense. Past: I've thought of making a moldy tome, or silent film representation of our famous State Street. Future: A flying car by the state capitol. The problem with these ideas, is that they are only supposed to be small annotations on the map, and I'm afraid that these are too detailed and will be impossible to decipher.
Using Photoshop I want to mimic what moz.com does with their product tour. I have a screen shot of my website and I want change the perspective to look like this: http://moz.com/products/tour What's the best method for this to maintain a legible version of my screenshot? Thanks.
I was curious to know if there is a way to or a script available within InDesign (any solution alternative is preferred) that I can batch check spelling and grammatical errors with either .indd or .pdf files. Some areas I would like to check are: Case errors: aNd Case structure: AND should be and spelling: Bannana If it could even be done I would like the script or process to correct the issue or document it to a file in .pdf format. Is there a way to batch process a spelling and grammar check for .indd or .pdf files?
I have been interested in finding a way to track my progress and tasks for client work with a visually engaging workflow program, that isn't like a git-hub style solution. I'm looking for a program that is visually interactive, with simple tools for managing it rather than a terminal based, command line software. Upon a search I did see a similar question here but it was quite old and the answers appear to be geared towards a git-hub mentality. What graphic user interface based software exists that would help me track my workflow effectively? I'm looking for both online web apps and offline local software solutions.
I want to understand how the icons used in Study room' whiteboard were inserted. To see what I mean, navigate to the site, click Create button and then Join button on the animation. If you observe closely the tip of the brush, pen etc changes based on the color selected: From the google developer kit, I don't see any background picture at the place of icon but can see some junk character. Can anyone throw some light on what type of icons are used and how to design those?
I'm trying to understand Adobe Illustrator's color conversion method between RGB/HSB and CMYK. I'm pretty sure they use ICC profiles to do the conversion, and they make a bunch of ICC profiles available for download (http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3680). I can't match the conversion using a combination of those profiles to Illustrator's color picker. What RGB and CMYK ICC profiles does Illustrator use in its color picker?
I'm designing a business card for a client, and they have asked to use a geometric repeating pattern as a background on part of the card. Initially I thought of placing the pattern flush against the edges of the card, but I'm not sure if its possible to guarantee that the edges of the pattern will line up. I can extend the pattern into the bleed, but I would like the edge of each atomic unit of the pattern to align on the edge of the card. This is an example and this the repeating pattern.
I am currently using the Entypo icon pack for the design of my website. Unfortunately it's missing some icons I want. I am willing to create them but I'm afraid to create inconsistencies because I have a very limited knowledge in icon design. How can I prevent inconsistencies when designing new icons for a pack?
I am trying to make some sort of space scene in Photoshop. I want a light source in it; since the standard lens flare filter is a bit cliché, I decided to put in a photograph of the Sun I just made. I have seen someone doing this in a video, but I can't find it again. How can I blend this picture of the Sun in a space scene containing a black background with starfields?
Many people told me doing gestures is great as a learning tool, gives you the pencil mileage, feeling for shape, form and proportion, and so on. I started doing them, basing my tries on this, this and this video among others. I've actually found doing gesture drawings fun and helpful - I'm seeing improvement! I began wondering - are there any similar, established exercises for drawing faces?
Today I was following a tutorial using PS CS6 on the internet and it asked that a layer be added and Layer Style > Gradient Overlay be used, which would later become a background. I'm not a big user of the fx button in the layer panel, I admit. But, I didn't think it was so utterly confusing. I simply created a new layer (transparent) and accessed the Gradient Overlay in Layer Styles and expected to see the new layer filled with the gradient I had configured and then I'd move on to the next step. There was no effect at all and no indication from Photoshop CS6 that I had just done something that would have no effect. To my great surprise I discovered that even after making a (marquee) selection, there was no gradient overlay appearing. Not until I used the shape tool (or text tool) would my gradient appear within it. Of course, I thought the so-called 'layer' style would apply on a layer level basis and not require that a particular object be used for filling. Is my software not working correctly or does anyone else find this observed behavior counter-intuitive in the slightest? Why does it only have effect on text or shape layers?
Photoshop CS5 comes with a feature called Puppet Warp. I find it specially useful for a certain animation I'm making. Normally, I duplicate the layer, use puppet warp, done. Then duplicate again, and so on... This is a bit frustrating because I have to re-create the pins for every frame (and you can't undo when you move a pin modifying the mesh, I think). That's a shame, because this tool is great for my project. I wonder if there is any other software specialized in puppet warp animation? Or, is there a way to not have to re-create the pins for every frame in Photoshop CS5?
I am trying to resize this image: The image is 73x44 and I would like to resize it down to 53x32. First, I tried using Photoshop CS6 with different resampling algorithms using the Image size dialog: Bicubic automatic: Bicubic: Bilinear: Nearest neighbor: They all look pretty bad, especially that the border on the left, right and bottom are more pronounced, but the border on top has almost disappeared. I then tried picresize and the result was pretty good and did not have that much distortion: What settings should I adjust in Photoshop to be able to yield the same resize quality as picresize?
I use illustrator a lot and I'm always exporting PDFs. Since the PDF is a "save as" rather than an export, I end up editing the PDF and saving out. This causes version conflicts. Could I just work in PDF? What would be lost if I never used the ai format?
Warning: Total photoshop newb! I recently got a cool image of my fiancee and I holding hands and showing off her engagment ring. The backdrop is the beach: I tried to trace an image using a combo of the laso and magic wand tools to select my target. Then I used that to pull out the target as another layer. I then pasted in a background gradient. Ended up with a really lame photoshoped looking picture. Notice the white lines where I didn't get the arms close enough and the choppy spots where I got too close. So what's my main problem here? Is their a way to bet a better cutout? Is their a blending tool that will make the background look more natural? both I tried a dozen or so tutorials I found in google searches but they just don't blend these types of images together in any of them. Thanks in advance.
I've applied the 'Oil Paint' Smart Filter to a layer in Photoshop CS6. I'd like to animate the filter's 'Angular Direction' from 0 to 360 degrees but I the keyframes in the "Style" lane of the Timeline don't seem to work for this. Is there a quick way to achieve this effect? I have limited knowledge of scripting / batch actions in Photoshop, would that be a route worth investigating to achieve this effect?
I was going through a few website designs and I really liked this pointed corner drop shadow: How can I add similar shadow effect using The Gimp or simple CSS?
I'm trying to create a grid that supports 2:1 and 1:1 units. I cannot figure out if this can be done or is even mathematically possible without compromising the 1:1 or 2:1 unit. The grid will be 1024px wide. Using the 1:1 unit as a base for columns, ideally there are six columns. The height should support at least two or three rows of units. The gutters should be 4px, maximum of 6px, minimum of 2px. Ideally no margins, but there can be very small margins the same width as the gutter at most. I'd like this to be pixel perfect, by this I mean the solution does not involve half-pixels or breaking the 1:1 or 2:1 units. This might not be possible, unfortunately my maths isn't strong enough to be sure!
I am looking for stats or polls that show what viewers like in a website design. I have seen stats about what browsers are commonly used, but I have not run across any statistics or polls to answer the following: Age demographic on what devices they use. Results on what they dislike in a site. Is responsive site design becoming a standard for all ages. What elements are required in a responsive site. What age demographic do you consider for responsive. Devices commonly used to view a site based on age. Any hints?
I was using Wunderlist, and I was wonderling what the texture is that is used in the sidebar, as shown in this image: Image courtesy of ifrick.ch. Click image for full size It looks like some sort of fabric, but I'm not quite sure.
This is a pattern I've seen used in multiple places and I've always loved it: This site also uses it as a background texture, as well as this one. It's sort of like a fingerprint/wood texture. I want to make something similar and I've considered drawing it out and throwing it in illustrator or something, but is there an easier way? Maybe like a combination of filters in Photoshop?
I have a graphics style that has the following attributes: Stoke: None Fill: None 3D Extrude and Bevel: Applied [] Opacity: Default [] Actually, this links to countless irrelevant parameters I want to do is apply the 3D Extrude and Bevel to multiple paths at once. By highlighting the paths and clicking on the graphics style, I achieve this effect, but the various "Stoke" and "Fill" of the selected paths is overridden by the graphics style's "no fill" and "no stroke". Basically, it 3D extrudes the paths okay, but then it goes and makes them colorless as well. How can I disable/prevent that when I can't delete the Stroke, Fill or Opacity Graphics Styles attributes?
I just wanted to know that is there is any font named "Flower Power" that looks like this: Are the two files available for download at the above mentioned page (.eps and .ai) fonts? Can I convert them to .ttf format? This is my very first question at GraphicDesign.
For a website project, I need to find a good looking web-font that fits the following parameters: it must be a "slab serif" it must be "monospace" Keeping my question short and simple: Which monospaced "slab serif" fonts can be recommended?
I want to use this element in a larger resolution poster: I tried using Photoshop's free transform, but I lost too much quality. How can I create this shape?
I have a curved path generated with the line tool followed by the Zig Zag filter to which I'd like to snap a shape I've drawn. I would like it that the shape can be dragged only along the line (like a carriage on a train track), and that the shape be rotated as it's dragged to be tangental to the curvature of the path. The shape itself is, at its most basic, a styled rectangle, and the effect I'm trying to achieve would be the result of locking the vertical-middle left-most and right-most anchor points to the curve simultaneously. Is it possible to do this in Illustrator CS5? Many thanks in advance!

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