I want to import a design I made into Sketchup somehow, and then extrude it to look like a sign that would hang on a building.
Here is the original picture that I am trying to recreate with a 3D model:
Here is what I created in Illustrator:
I do not currently have Sketchup Pro, if a solution involves that.
How do I make this rock more logical, in terms of brightness for each sides of it?
This is, by far I can do which is ridiculous 
I manage to do it by the following:
I will be needing different forms of this rock and I would like to do it in a very practical way. I think using 3D is much better but I have an insufficient knowledge on how to do it there using Photoshop.
Also, in which category of graphics design this is belong to? Is it flat?
I would like to know how many uniquely discernible images are mathematically possible to the human eye.
We can take the amount of colors available on some HD screen to the power of its pixel count, but my question is more along the lines of what our eyes would recognize as different, without having to inspect and compare the images too closely or with tools.
I believe that certain colors are easier to distinguish than others, and perhaps different patterns as well, which leads me to wonder if an answer even exists at all. Maybe there has been work done on some estimates at least.
On OS X Yosemite with MacBook Pro, I am trying to use Corel Painter Essentials 5 on secondary/external/bigger display.
Variants i've tried so far
1) I move all the tool windows to secondary display.
Command bar is still on primary screen. When i pull items all items from command bar to secondary display, brushes palette is opening on the main display.
2) I change display assignment in OS X Dock
Everything is on secondary display, but brushes palette will just flick without staying to be opened.
How may i achieve to have this app on the secondary display? I do not want mess my current OS X setup. I just want this one app to behave like rest of the world ;)
I am trying to make subtitles using indesign for use in premiere pro. I have written out all the subtitles I want in word with column breaks separating the lines and I want to import this into indesign so each text set appears on a new page - as seen in this video: http://ift.tt/NzxljC
At the moment I am getting one page with the first subtitle in view and the rest of the subtitles are in the text box but can only be seen by deleting the column breaks.
How do you get indesign to recognise column breaks as page breaks and make multiple pages?
Trying to find a WooCommerce plugin to display subscription products in 4 large horizontal blocks that displays a products short description and price. But I can't figure out which search term to use to find such a plugin.
Any ideas?
I have a shape created with the rounded rectangle tool and when I add a stroke to it, the inside corners of the stroke are not rounded. Is there a way to make them rounded without creating 2 separate objects?
This question already has an answer here:
I'm really inspired by the redesign of this movie poster: http://ift.tt/18yA7Aa I really love the flat color and the minimal use of shading.
In looking specifically at the outer layer of the sun, and the right hand side of Simba's mane, am I correct in believe this technique is called parallel hatching? How would I efficiently apply this technique in Illustrator?
please help me! I'm losing my mind over this.
I am trying to make the path of the letters in 'hanwell' trim to/flush with the edges of the bridge illustration, so that the letters only appear in the gaps between the birdge pillars.
I have drawn a bridge using the pen tool and shapes, all parts of it are all on the same layer.
In a new layer i then expanded some type selected both the type and the bridge and clicked 'unite' in the pathfinder box. 
Weirdly, this nearly did what i wanted, but a strange horizontal line appeared, ruining it. Can anyone explain where this line has come from and how i can get rid of it?
To try and figure where this infuriating line was coming from, I tried getting rid of the text, selecting just the bridge and clicking unite, just to see if i could figure out where the line was coming from and it appeared again, which suggests to me that the problem is something to do with the bridge illustration and not the text. Can anyone help me? Pleaseeee 
We saw this page and wanted to know if anyone can point us in the direction of how this was created?
watch the PNG move and animate
I send a PDF to my client through email. He says the colour 'red' appears 'black' on his computer. We are both Mac users. The 'red' I used in the document is a Pantone Colour. What is the problem? How do I fix this?
I opened the pdf in a Windows computer, the colour appeared 'red'.
I used the path tool to select these segments but now there is a one pixel wide alpha line between them, what's the proper way to do this?
Can anyone suggest what software might have been used to make this video animation?
I see its been made into a gif so assume this excludes canvas/ html5 or flash, most likely 3d software to video to gif... Any ideas which software? Thanks, phil
Using Illustrator CC 2014
I'm trying to create a spiraled text in which the text size decreases as it spirals inward. I've tried putting the text on a path created using the spiral tool and executing a script to decrease the size of each character, but I couldn't figure out how to access my text selection correctly.
This is the kind of spiral I'm looking for. 
I've also put the text on a straight path, expanded, and used the free transform tool to make it a tapered art brush. This achieves what I want with straight lines, but the spiral doesn't render the brush in an acceptable way.
Using brush shape on spiral path.
I also tried applying a triangular brush to the spiral path, typing and expanding my text on a straight path, and making an envelope distort using the spiral as the top object. The results were kind of awesome, but not even close to what I was looking for.
I think the best way would be to figure out how to execute a script on the text selection. I already have the basic logic of it solved (using JS):
function ChangeSize(){
var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
//Here's where I need to make a proper selection
var selection = activeDocument.selection;
//begin resize function
for (var i=0; i<characters.length; i++){
characters[i].characterstyle.textheight -= i * .05;
}
}
This is the only thing holding me up from an otherwise very simple and straightforward design. I've spent several hours trying and I've got nothing. Does anyone have a simple solution for making my spiral look pretty much exactly like the Pi spiral in the sample t-shirt picture?
Here is a sample screenshot from the homepage of a news blog which makes extensive use of text highlighting headline and excerpt text. The site uses black-white and yellow-black (background-color + forecolor). Are there any other color combinations that work well when combined?
I would like to create a similar minimalist blog, but I do not want to steal or rip off the above solution.
How can I use typography to give my blog an unconvential fanzine like impression?
I designed a logo which has greenish colors, i printed a CMYK color proof, and the client likes the colors on the printed sample. I need to give him RGB versions of the logo for web use but here's the problem: On my hp laptop monitor the colors appear blueish, on a desktop samsung monitor the colors appear greenish (close to the printed sample). What should I do about this color difference between monitors?
Looking for a WYSIWYG html editor with image map feature. means with which apart from normal features i will be able to map a certain portions in a picture and hyperlink it. looking for a free light wieght app or an online cloudbased solution.
it is a logo could not find anything smilar especially letter s and f
I am looking forward to knowing how to draw clear lines by using pen tablets , I know that vector applications such as illustrator draw clear lines but I think they aren't enough comfortable as Photoshop when you use pen tablet. so I have question that when u use pen tablet for drawing Do u set setting to draw clear lines ? and what is your software suggestions (illustrator , Photoshop , sketchbook and ...)?
This is drawn by Photoshop using pen tablet. you can see that lines aren't clear.
This is drawn by Illustrator Using pen tools (
I'm a pretty decent graphic designer but I'm not quite sure what the best method would be to make it a vector image.
I'm going to try and make it with the pen tool and gradient fills.
Any ideas you can come up with help me thanks!
I have a longstanding relationship with a client and do the majority of their design work. About 2 years ago I was told their "new budget" for one series of booklets was $1,000 each. These booklets are scholarly monographs, mostly type, 60-80 pp but with all kinds of headings, subheadings, indents and tables (oh the tables!) that are quite time-consuming.
I had been doing these booklets for much more, but I agreed to automate production as much as possible and to eliminate certain tweaks to reduce price on two "test" booklets. I completed the 2 booklets, billed $1,000 each, and lost substantially on each one. I explained to client that I would be unable to do this booklet series in the future as I was unable to do so profitably. Client reluctantly agreed. For about a year, someone else did the booklets, presumably at the $1,000 price point. I continued to do other work for this client on agreeable terms. Then suddenly, the job returned to me without explanation. It was agreed that I would charge my usual fee, which is based on time incurred. I completed several booklets and charged on this basis. Everyone was happy.
Then they sent me two new booklets, written by a new person in their department. THESE booklets went through about 10 revisions, as they were passed serially through different reviewers who changed and then re-changed each others' work. I alerted them to the fact that this methodology would substantially increase their production costs, and that they would save money by having all parties review a single proof before returning same to me for edits. I was ignored.
Now the projects are completed, and it is time to bill. If I bill based on hours incurred, charges will be huge. First booklet printed this week, and I learned that blueline changes by printer totaled over $1,000 due entirely to comma editing in the text.
Any suggestions on how best to handle my billing?
I use the font "LATO" in Photoshop every day, but today, it's displaying like this:
Any ideas as to how to fix this? Thanks so much!
-Kelly
I'm looking for a software that would allow me to test a big amount of fonts by producing one page (or at least, one paragraph) of text for each font in a folder.
I'm not looking for a simple sample phrase nor a full fontset, but for a whole paragraph at least, in order to look at kerning and greyness and be able to compare each font. I have tried Font View, but it cant produce a whole paragraph. By the way, fonts are Type 1 and OTF.
Do any of you fellow designers ever have the issue of not being able to settle on an idea?? Particularly if it is your own personal portfolio or logo identity.
As a design student going out into the real world in professional practise I find myself scrambling to get together a portflio of ideas and trying to establish some sort of consistent brand identity and logo.
However I just have this deep sense of uneasiness with my work so much so that i find it hard to pick between ideas, and I can never seem to feel at ease with my work. I always feel unsettled, and end up with half finished drawings.
Any advice to get out of this rut?
I'm a web dev. My boss is an outdated physical media designer. We're working together on a relatively huge food delivery web system.
He just keep coming with these poor and ugly layout ideas. Clearly web-outsider stuff. See image below and tell me if I am wrong:
I just can't let it happen and "just work and get paid in the end of the month", because I have a share of the company's profits, and well, I want it to be good. I don't want to just lose my time. Also, I'm just a programmer, not a designer, as he always remembers me out loud.
So, guys, I'm desperate. Getting unmotivated. What to do?
By now pretty sure the entire world is familiar with the "dress" optical illusion as it will one day be known. My question is how can this illusion be reproduced on other images?
For those living in the social media dark ages, Scott I'm looking at you, here is the image:
In general terms, some people have to refocus in order to see the correct colors of Black and Blue. It is possible to re-"tune" your eyes and see the Gold and White but very difficult. For the most part once you see it Black and Blue you can't go the other way.
Again though - the question is how can this illusion be reproduced in order to use it in various designs?
A lot of (early) printing is done in black and red. The red is mostly used as accent color.
What is the origin of this red? Does is have a name and/or specification?
It's graphicdesign.stackexchange so i'll add an image:
I've cretaed a SVG image trying to solve the quality problem when re-sizing the element or scaling it through CSS.
To my surprise, my SVG image looks even worse than the reduced size of the GIF or JPG image.
Here's an image showing what I mean:
I would like to copy a value from a textbox (image size) and paste within an action. This will be a different value each image so copy and paste doesnt seem to work (the action just records the original value, not getting the value from the textbox).
Is there anyway to like getvalue from image size width etc..
Photoshop CC
Thanks
I'm creating a visual version in Sketch of the to-be-designed website for a client. I'm working on a mobile version first. But he has an iPhone 5S with a 1136x640 resolution, while I have an 6+ with 2208x1242 resolution.
For best viewing purposes, I'm creating the visuals for his iPhone 5S resolution, but I want to view them on my iPhone too. However, exporting at @1x (regular 5S) and @1.94x (6+) makes great visuals for the 5S, but at some parts very blurry lines on my 6+ version.
Is there a way to design with sketch for multiple screen sizes with a single artboard without having separate versions become blurry?
Of course, only for screen sizes with equal ratios (i.e. 16/9)
I know there are many threads related to this topic, but I still could not find a satisfying solution.
Summary Matlab 2014b figures -> export as .eps or .svg -> load into Inkscape (problem is in here: text is not recognized) -> use Inkscpe to save as .pdf_tex -> use in scrreprt document (pdfTeX)
The goal: I want to use different Matlab 2014b plots in a scientific paper. Within those plot I want to use the same LaTeX font as it is used in my scrreprt document.
The problem: When I export or print the Matlab figures as .eps or .svg (possible in 2014b) it is not possible to use the document font (type and size) or access the text (labels, axisticks) Inkscape.
What I've done so far: I used matlab2tikz. This lets me access the plot with the "correct" font. But it does not create the results I want to have. This thread mentions a related problem.
I greated some figures in Inkscape (.svg) and used the export method which provides .pdf_tex files. Then I used \input to include them into the to the document. This works very well ("correct font and nice quality"), so I want to use this method, but in the first place I need to print/export the figures in a way that lets Inkscape read the text as text and notas pixels in a picture.
What is definitely not desired Setting the Matlab figure 'Interpreter' to 'Latex' looks nice in the figure, but is useless when including it into a latex document
I appreciate any help. Thanks in advance.
p.s.: I redirected this Question from http://ift.tt/GO73p8
After I shoot a product photo, I am using quick selection tool to select only the product, click refine edge, cut + paste into new document that must be 2000 x 2000 pixels white background. When I paste into that new document ofcourse that the image cut before it is bigger than the size of the new document ( 2000x2000 ). Is there a keyboard shortcut to automatically transform to the scale of the new document ? I am using Ctr + T, hold Shift and drag picture from corners. But I am asking for a shortcut to do that faster. I have hundreds of photos.
Thank you ! Best regards.
When I do otfinfo -s fontname.otf with a font (that support Cyrillic) I get the following result:
DFLT Default
grek Greek
latn Latin
latn.AZE Latin/Azeri
latn.CAT Latin/Catalan
... etc
Mac's Font Book tell me following about the same font:
Script: Cyrillic, Greek, Latin
I have a problem that some apps (e.g. LaTeX) can't get info about Cyrillic script in that font.
How the list of supported scripts is formed? And is it possible to change it?
front end code for time line register users like photo, name,last login and last serches
I have a layer that I want to merge and I want the dark colors in the layer to have more weight. How can I make it so that black pixels are 100% opacity, white pixels are 0%, and #7F7F7F pixels are 50%? I tried adjusting color curves, but that doesn't seem to be what I want.
When I click onto the canvas with my pencil tool, it's not very precise. The only time the pixel will be lit up is when the mouse courser is directly over the pixel (with grid lines active).
How do I make it so that if my pencil tool is over some pixel that it lights up (colors in) the pixel that I am pointing to, even if my mouse courser is not predominantly over that one particular pixel?
Clarification: Imagine if you have a square, the square is divided into 4 parts. If you click in the middle with the cursor (of the square) nothing will really get lit up, even if the cursor is over only two pixels predominantly again nothing will get lit up, the center point of the cursor has to be totally over the pixel to light it up. That's what I am asking about, how do you change it so that it doesn't require such precision where literally the cursor has to be over the pixel.
How would a generic brand-icon look? The icon will be used in a web application that has "Brand" as an object, and the "Brand" could be "McDonalds", "Apple", "BMW" or any other company/brand.
Right now we use a simple star as a brand icon, but we are not quite happy with this.
Any suggestions?
I've done searches on here to find an answer to my question, and while I have found other questions asking similar questions, but every answer was using a third party program to disable certain fonts.
My question is, is there a way to organize fonts specifically in Adobe Illustrator?
For example, if I select my fonts, they are already in groups that Illustrator created. It starts out with a list of all the fonts I have installed, then a line followed by other fonts that are in foreign languages, and then other lines after that.
I don't want to ever disable a font, but sometimes if I'm trying to find a font, I'll start at the top and then click the font drop down and start pressing the down arrow to cycle through my fonts.
There are some fonts that when I select it, the name goes away in the drop down list (the font still works) and the list defaults back to the Myriad Pro font that it always starts at.
So, if there would be a way for me to create a list of those fonts that I can't scroll through, and put them below the rest of the fonts, that would save me a HUGE headache in going through my font search.
My wacom Intious and an older Yinova tablet don't work well in gimp anymore. Blender Krita runs perfect, but Inkscape and Gimp are buggy (for example, the pressure gets activated the right click).
The old settings in the preferences don't work any more.
I have a free font in TTF and WOFF form. I want to create a ”multi-character”, by which I mean a character that when entered will be rendered as other (multiple) characters of that font. For example that when the user types 9 it is actually rendered how Stack Exchange is rendered in that font (yes the whole word). It’s not a monospace font.
Right now, I am using Font Creator from High-Logic and I’ve created a new glyph and am copying the individual glyphs to make a my multi-character. Besides character spacing (I will have to figure out what’s the right value for that), is there anything else I should take care of?
Everyone know that what is the font of this logo which in given below.
Turning object option is not working on photoshop transform (CTRL+T) .
The curved arrow is not visible for me. :( suddenly
I have some graphics I worked on and posted to tumblr and a couple other social media sites, but now I have to print them, they're originally in 500px by 650px or 500px by 750px. Problem is when I try to print them on regular A4 size paper, they lose all sharpness and quality, the text becomes grainy and the images and accents all have a haze on them. I've worked out how to resize a few, and I have only a couple psd's of them since I made them originally for digital publishing and not print. So does anyone know a way around this? Printing, or resizing the image without losing it's quality or keeping sharpness. I'm still in college learning graphic design, and most of it's self taught for me, so please be kind, I don't know much, this is the first time I'm having to print my work out for show, rather than publish to online sources.
I'm trying to design a pie chart, so I create circles (each one in a separate layer) then I change them to something like that:
Now I want it to look like that:
Of course I can create a small blank circle and put it in the middle, but I want it to be transparent (logically impossible) . I tried to use the path division operation between the two switched circles and it works, but I don't want to combine them (also they will have the same style).
I'm open to any other suggestions or alternatives.
I'm trying to design a pie chart, so I create circles (each one in a separate layer) then I change them to something like that:
Now I want it to look like that:
Of course I can create a small blank circle and put it in the middle, but I want it to be transparent (logically impossible) . I tried to use the path division operation between the two switched circles and it works, but I don't want to combine them (also they will have the same style).
I'm open to any other suggestions or alternatives.
I am making a website mockup in adobe fire works. I noticed that i need more space so i try to change the canvas size vertically and it does add more space but i notice that my content is moved out of place for some reason. Anyone know how i can prevent my content from moving and still add more canvas size space vertically?
I know how to replace a color in Photoshop (by going to image -> adjustments -> replace color and selecting the color etc.) however I need to match specific Lab colors provided by my client in order to show the same product photo in a variety of different colors. Even though I put the specific Lab numbers after clicking the replacement swatch, it doesn't even come close to matching on my actual photo. The original base color of the photo makes a big difference in the end result.
Any suggestions or alternative methods on how to approach this would be much appreciated.
Thanks!
I am struggling to work out how to do this and I am sure there is a way.
Here is what I want to achieve: I have one image and one document named size. I want the size document (which has already been set up) to show Small, Medium, Large (which will be the sizes of the image in proportion).
I.e. I open an image. Run the action. It opens 'size.psd' and copys the proportions in. for example, small = 10cm x 5cm, med = 20cm x 10cm, large = 40cm x 20cm.
I need it to get the proportions of the opened image and be able to input to a text layer in the 'size.psd'.
Here is what I have tried: Using image size dialog with constrait proportions, tried copying and pasting the values in the document after modifying to each value.
This merely copies the actual value from one image, and pastes into the size. So it does not work when I open another image with different proportions.
Is there anyway to do this?
Thanks in advance for any assistance.
Stephen
In Gimp (2.8.10) when I use the Select by Color tool it frequently selects bits of color physically distant from the area I'm trying to select. For example I'm trying to select the color of a shirt on a person wearing shorts and it select parts of their legs as well as the shirt. Messing with the threshold helps but does not usually solve the problem.
Primarily my question is what techniques are there to select by color effectively? For example, is it possible to first select a general rough region with a lasso or other tool and then do a select by color only within that region?
I can't identify this font on an old warehouse in Neuville-de-Poitou from maybe around 1930. The text reads "G. Robin Raffarin". It can be seen here on Google Street View. I seek for a similar webfont (especially the for letters AFR)
I have unsuccessfully used WhatTheFont and identifont.com The closest match I found was .FF Bauer Grotesk Bold.
Neutraface is near (except for letter F & R) but not allowed for webfont
I have a preset layout on Indesign CC V. 9.1 with a document that has 5 chapters, A front matter, back matter, endnotes and appendices. I have the layout as a facing page--needed for odd and even formats. Everytime, I add an extra page so that way my next chapter could start on the right side(front of the book/report), the chapters after that shift the textbox frame out and shuffle their top margins. The left page goes from 1.5inch to 2inch of a margin and the right side goes from 10inch to 10.5inch and I have to move it all back.
My bleed and slugs are all the same at .125 in, Facing pages are on. I don't understand why this is happening and how can I change this so that way it doesn't shuffle?
I'm aspiring to be a front end developer and as far as that goes I am pretty comfortable coding for the frontend. I would like to improve my design skills.
I would like to know what to look for when critiquing a website, what aspects of the website I should look at and what questions to answer.
Any information regarding the way you go about critiquing a design or a website, and any checklists or documents you follow would be greatly appreciated
Cheers.
I created this text logo (attached) in Adobe Illustrator using Bodoni Sans Light font I purchased from MyFonts.
After having purchased the font I noticed that the edges of some letters ('O', 'C') come out very ragged. And when the logo is saved as a raster image, even at high resolution, there is even some fuzz on the edges of those letters.
I tried changing between different anti-aliasing methods, but it doesn't make much difference.
My client and I really like the font's style. Is there a way to fix this issue?
Hey i'm looking for a font that's really good for flat design.
-Thanks, Cameron
It's not isometric, it's not one point, maybe top down?
I want to Google it and don't know how.
Thanks 
Sites like What the Font, Identifont don't have the scope to identify every font but do have a matrix ID system. I have about 4,000 faces split into 18 categories and hunt manually using Nexus Font (PC). Is there a quicker method to identify a typeface?
Image from Nexus Font, http://www.xiles.net
Font-Awesome provides logos for social media brands like facebook.
According to Facebooks brand guidelines using those seem to not be allowed:
[Don't] Use any icons, images or trademarks to represent Facebook other than what is found on this resource center
So am I right that we can't use those Font Awesome icons?
I'm creating a booklet with indesign and I am trying to copy data from an excel spreadsheet into an indesign table. I was given an excel spread sheet with the a list of peoples names, their titles and their companies. I have to put a name in one column and then in the other put the company name and their title, as the picture (1) here illustrates:
Where the problem arises is trying to merge two cells in excel so that they are underneath each other and then paste it into one cell in the indesign table.
I tried to combine column C and D (as IN THE PICTURE) and insert a new line between the columns. (=C1&CHAR(10)&D1)
This worked in Excel but when copying it into indesign they do not go underneath each other but into different cells and they also show " quotation marks around the text.
I know there must be a relatively simple way of doing this in Excel and then copying it into indesign but I have run out of ideas. Can anyone tell me the best way to approach this as I am stuck. Thanks in advance.
I've come across a challenge. I need to design an icon representing "changes". Well actually two closely related icons, both representing "changes" but distinguishable from each other:
What associations do you guys have that are the closest to these meanings?
I've come across a challenge. I need to design an icon representing "changes". Well actually two closely related icons, both representing "changes" but distinguishable from each other:
What associations do you guys have that are the closest to these meanings?
I would really appreciate some help with this little problem I have, it may only be a click away somewhere in a menu - perhaps someone can help. The application I'm using is Inkscape and I'm trying to find a way to quickly merge the overlapping nodes of a single object. Because the shape's nodes have been randomly jittered they are now overlapping each other - which is exactly what I want but not the white 'negative' spaces. I would like to achieve the result shown on the right of the picture (this was done outside Inkscape using Photoshop) perhaps you can help?
By default the circle has 4 anchor points. Is there a way to increase it?
Not manually adding them with the Add Anchor Point Tool with which you could never possibly manage the natural symmetry.
I havent been able to find any references that this should be possible, maybe you can assist ?
What i would like to do is to add a user interface for our designers when dealing with a specific object (box object), its like a electrical floor drawing where they will add boxes to many segments of the drawing.
The thought was to import a CSV file with a list of predefined boxes with the following format :
Name, BoxType, Color, Floor
When all has been done and they changed what they want, we do another export of the list.
1)
When adding a box object i would like to be able to pop up a form, like a small properties form, where they are able to select from a dropdown box one of the predefined box-records from the imported list.
2)
Would also like them to be able to change each of the 4 values selected, manually in a form, so ex. they can give the box its own name ( different from what it was in the imported records ) - i imagine just a form popping up ex on rightclick or hotkey where they can change the 4 values as they wish, ex. changing what floor it is located on.
Is this possible at all in any way in Illustrator using script or SDK or somekind of other method ?
Hope you can help.
My cousin made a cartogram depicting world population in microsoft paint.
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It became quite popular and he he was contacted by the author of an earlier world population cartogram.
The author of the early cartogram insisted that my cousin's work violated his copyright. My cousin acquiesced and listed the earlier author as the copyright holder of the newer map.
It seems wrong to me. My cousin's work seems original. But the lawyer at his university said that it is not. Who is right?
Question sums it up.
I researched this and found a link for doing this on Mac, but it is achieved via the OS and not Photoshop.
My stroke settings on Illustrator are not working like they typically do even though I have the units set for inches. So for instance, instead of having 0.25 be the thinnest available stroke it is 0.0078. This is throwing me off because when I choose 1 in it turns out to be a giant blob on the page. How can I fix this?
I keep running into a strange issue when I am expanding the stroke of a one pixel ellipse in illustrator. It creates unwanted anchor points on the expanded shape. See image:
Has anyone else run into this issue? I can't seem to find the cause or a solution. Is it a glitch? I'm using Creative Cloud AI v 18.1.1.
A few things to note:
We are evaluating Salesforce right now and looking for a way to generate project sheets and employee resumes into our InDesign Templates. I can find solutions that do this for Office products but not Adobe.
I found an old PowerPoint slide I made, but I really want to find the original image that I imported to the slide. Is there a way to find the name of the image, upon which the slide is based (e.g., I inserted 'imageFoo.jpg' into my slide). I'm sure it's in one of my hard drives.
I have tried exploring the properties of the image (right click, format image), but the closest I got to the original is its size property. Googling didn't reveal the answer.
I'm using adobe photoshop cs version 8.0.
Using the menu: Image > Mode > Color Table, I'm trying to make some colors transparent.
The problem is that the range of colors I need to pick is scattered all over the color table. How do I sort the colors in the color table according to saturation to ease my work?
In the picture below, the background should be transparent so that only the lady's face and hair should be extracted.
This is somewhat a newbie question, but I couldn't find any solution. While painting, if I lift up the brush and start painting again, colors start adding up at intersections. This makes it hard to make it look smooth. As you see in the image it is darker in the place where two brush strokes intersect.
The behavior I want is, as if brush is not lifted, painting over the same area will not change the color unless it is darker (Max filter maybe?). Or maybe I should change the way I work. What do you suggest?
Does Painshop Pro [any version] work with a Touchscreen [monitor or Laptop] - so using the Pen, can I draw etc on the screen in Paintshop Pro?
I'm creating a shield and have used a few shapes with multiple strokes. See pic below. I'm not sure how to get rid of the indicated part of a stroke. If there is a better way, by not using strokes I'm all ears. 
Thanks in advance for ideas or assistance.
Mike
I have two files with (among other things) a logo is placed. When saving the file for web (JPG, PNG,..) the logo is not visible, it's as if that specific layer is just hidden.
What could be wrong with the layer or path? When saving it as PDF, it's still visible.
This is how the file looks like in Illustrator: 
In the export dialog, I chose JPG and "use artboards". As you can see the "V" dissapears: 
when i try to create a panorama pic. in Ps. i got this message : Error 8: Syntax error. Line: 132 -> args.putEnumerated( keyMode٬ typeBlendMode, enumDarken );
everything is updated with latest versions OS,PS, even the java !!
This InDesign document has 2 pages. On each page there is a rectangle that uses same gradient color. Looks differently:
What mystery should I attribute this phenomenon to?
Thank you in advance!
I tried this photoshop script from Hacking UI and couldn't get working.
It was simply doing nothing (on mac OSX and photoshop CS6). No .svg generated, no .ai generated, no message. Just a loading icon then nothing. Any thought ?
I'm using photoshop CS6 (13.0.6 x64) and Illustrator CS6 (16.0.4). Both were running before I tried exporting.
I also have - Photoshop CC (release 2014.0.0 - 20140508.r.58) - Illustrator CC (release 2014.0.0 - 18.0.0)
But I was not using it export.
I was wondering if there was a script/plugin that could make one layer appear always on top.
I am busy with an webdesign and I created some safe zones which I like to have on top at all times. However now when I create a new layer I have to manually move that one layer up, which kinda downs my production time.
So is there any way of doing this with a script/plugin?
I added a screenshot of what my safe zones look like.
I want to check the app icons into mobile device view, so that I can see how the output will come. 
Can anyone have guide me?
This problem is happening while i am using my brush tool in photoshop cc. So you will be clear, please see the video i captured on youtube http://ift.tt/1DavlQS Please let me know if there any solution you can have.
I am converting a design made in illustrator CC to PDF, but when I printed it through PDF the colors are so different but when I look on the screen the PDF file open it is fine.
I've read this earlier Colour difference between Ai file print and PDF file print
I've done it, but nothing changed.
Please help?
Thank you,
What is the name of the group of colours resembling the shades of face powder? Powder colours? These colours are very popular in clothes. I need to know the name of this group of colours.
Im using Illustrator and I have used gradient on different paths now I need to edit them but it seems I cant do anything on those paths anymore. one of the paths the gradient arrow doesn't even appear and on the rest i can see the arrow but cant change anything anyone knows what the problem is or what have i done wrong? this is how it looks lie when i click on gradient nothing appears on one path
I've mainly used Photoshop before and only just picked up Illustrator a few days ago. Anyway, I used Illustrator to create lots of images (with transparent backgrounds) of different letters, each one filled with circles. More to the point, upon exporting as a .PNG, I noticed a resolution option. Me being the little derp that I am, I figured a larger resolution is always better, so I set this to high (300 ppi).
Upon importing the images into my project however, I realized that the images had become a lot larger than they should be. Upon tweaking the export resolution setting, I noticed that if I set this to low (72 ppi), the images come out as the expected size. I was just wondering how I should expect this to effect my drawings. If I were to keep the high resolution images I exported at 300 ppi, am I always going to be forced to reduce their size afterwards by a certain amount? Otherwise, should I always stick to 72 ppi in order to keep the size of the image the same and to avoid needing to re-size things later?
Image quality is not so important in this case, so there probably isn't much reason for me to use anything higher than 72 ppi anyway. Just for the sake of learning however, I thought this would be a good question to ask.
As an icon designer, I work with multiple sizes (above 16 pixel) for different platforms, so my regular work is quite complex. What gadgets recommended (like monitor, wacom, apple mouse, etc.) for reduce my effort and time?
I'm currently creating a poster (size A0) in PowerPoint 2013 and want it to be in the best quality possible. I used vector images where possible, but for some images I had to use raster graphics.
Now my problem is, that power point samples them down quite a lot and I see no way of preventing this. I just drag and drop the image on my poster, rescale it appropriately and then export the file as PDF. Ideally I would like the picture to be embedded in the original (full) resolution in the pdf, but if there is no way of doing it, I would also be ok with having it resampled with a sufficient high (say 300) dpi rate. How can I achieve that?
I want to "convert" image like the one at the left to a pencil drawing like the one at the right. I know that steps are stated, but can somebody help with more details?
Thanks in advance
Please for flex banner design which colours are correct rgb or cmyk i am confusing to make flex banner rgb neither cmyk please give me suggestion aboutthis
So, I was tasked with job where I will write a C# application that will go through an image and list out the color of each pixel. Problem is, I'm not really sure what standard the color needs to be. The spec says:
"'px (a value in the result set)' shall be the pixel color at a specific spot of the image The pixel color shall be between 0-255, inclusive."
Later in the spec, it gives an "example of a 3x5 image," then proceeds to display 3 rows of 5 single numbers between 0 and 255.
Obviously it isn't asking for the Hex or CMYK values. It seems like it could be asking for the RGB, but it really seems like it's asking for a SINGLE integer value between 0-255 that fully identifies the color of a particular pixel.
Does such a standard exist?
This is an excerpt FROM the spec:
Here is an example of a 3x5 image file, “babydrawing.img”.
255, 6, 65, 78, 99
100, 25, 0, 45, 66
88, 190, 88, 76, 50
I've done searches on here to find an answer to my question, and while I have found other questions asking similar questions, but every answer was using a third party program to disable certain fonts. My question is, is there a way to organize fonts specifically in Adobe Illustrator? For example, if I select my fonts, they are already in groups that Illustrator created. It starts out with a list of all the fonts I have installed, then a line followed by other fonts that are in foreign languages, and then other lines after that. I don't want to ever disable a font, but sometimes if I'm trying to find a font, I'll start at the top and then click the font drop down and start pressing the down arrow to cycle through my fonts. There are some fonts that when I select it, the name goes away in the drop down list (the font still works) and the list defaults back to the Myriad Pro font that it always starts at. So, if there would be a way for me to create a list of those fonts that I can't scroll through, and put them below the rest of the fonts, that would save me a HUGE headache in going through my font search. Thank you.
I want to make a recognition plaque with colorful border- logo on top- and text.
The text has 4 blocks- each block in dift color. The back ground is like onyx.
I want it to look like engraving on real onyx.
The plaque size is 10" x 12".
What printer and ink I need ? Any particular kind of plastic ?
please I'll love to know if there are major websites out there where I can get tutorials on the basics of t-shirt design and the printing process. Whether screen printing, heat transfer because am yet to know which one is better.
I actually design logos and do lots of illustrative work and I'd love to get my designs on t-shirts, so please if there helpful tutorials out there I'd love to know where there are.
I have a photo on a .jpg format and I'm trying to use expand under object, but it is disabled. Anyone here would like to help me why and how to use it? Thanks!
Can anyone help me identify the font in the attached image please. I have similar font but i am looking for the exact font. Any help will be appreciated.
