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BRANDING: How can you create a 'brand' for many different companies under one parent company?
How can you 'brand' 5 different websites that live under one parent company that are all very similar with the exception of the demographic? Stack Exchange is a very good example because they sites ...
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online PDFs saved as spread or single page?
There are benefits to showing the downloads both as a spread and a single page. Which should I take into account- the view-ability on smaller computer screens or the design appeal of showing them as ...
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What are the journals on the contemporary graphic design?
Are there any internationally recognized journals on the contemporary graphic design? For example, I want to write a commentary on David Carson or Uwe Loesch creative work. Where can I find critiques, ...
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selecting inverse an Inner Border on photoshop
Is there a way to select an inner border in Select Inverse?
Here is one example
I need to select the border pointed by the red arrow. With the basic select inverse both borders pointed by the blue ...
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What are the most common album layouts besides the classical one?
When one try to make/publish a photo album the most common layout is the one with one photo per page.
What other layouts are proven to be successful, especially considering that we intent to print on ...
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Any good example of electric waves incorporated in a web design?
The client I work with has undergone an internal branding exercise. The result is that all of their documentation standards have been updated to include a common header. The header contains a black ...
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GREP to find all text between bullet and equals sign in bullet list
I have a bulleted list with several entries, it's a list of keyboard shortcuts, similar to the text below:
alt+shift+ctrl+2 = Lock Others
alt+shift+ctrl+3 = Hide Others
alt+ctrl+b = Blend
I want ...
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How to convey requirements with a designer?
I am an app developer. Most of the time I will build the apps' user interface by myself, thus resulting in functional but not appealing apps :-(
Like this -> one (link to AppStore)
For a few ...
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Triangle cut corners CS5 Photoshop
How do you effectively cut out triangles in Photoshop for a web design easily? Is the only way to use the polygonal lasso tool, which always gets me triangles of unequal sizes. I'm trying to achieve ...
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How to change a google map into something similar to the poster background?
How do I change a google map into something similar to the map in the 1st poster?
How do I change it to blue and also include shadows?
Please help!
Regards,
sammydude
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How to recreate this background in photoshop for use in a mobile app? [duplicate]
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How do so many app menus get that finished textured look?
I'm still a beginner, but I really like this texture and have been trying for hours to recreate it.
Question: ...
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Kerning problem with Fontographer 5
I configured my font's kerning for every possible letter combination in Fontographer 5 and when I preview it from there, everything is as it should be, but when I generate the font files (TTF and OTF) ...
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Which are the most prominent creative thinking techniques/methodologies?
I know SCAMPER & Ideo cards, but I'm curious if there are any other important techniques/methodologies one must not miss. I'm particularly interested in those that you would resort to use for a ...
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Solid colours look ugly in web design? [closed]
I'm very new to the whole graphics and web design thing, and upon trying to put together the first few pages for a site im working on, have realized that nothing looks as good as i imagined it would.
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Tools to put into place for designing for yourself
I know I am my worst enemy from critique to execution. I ask this question because I wanted to know any good ways to stop myself from going on and on in my own work. I have several ideas and things ...
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3d packaging mockups
Is there a simple way to create a 3D looking cardboard box to show off what some packaging might look like. Photoshop solutions would be helpful. I would like to be able to change the images on the ...
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How do so many app menus get that finished textured look?
I don't know how to describe it but how do you create that nice textured look with css?
Seen in the background:
Also seen a bit on the left hand dark navigation of:
Thanks for your help
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what tools to use for beginner
Could some experienced graphic designer suggest what tools to use- what software, to do this- make a picture of some money bills, which are curved and floating around randomly, with some background ...
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What Graphic Design degree has more value for advancing the field?
There seems to be emerging two schools of "Graphic Design" which I use very loosely in the world today.
The traditional school of Graphic Design is about "Art". Creating, exhibiting, and the history ...
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Concept OS Mocking: Illustrator vs. Photoshop vs. Other
As a school project, I am graphically designing my own mobile OS. I already have hundreds of hand drawings of each aspect of the OSs design and I need to make the step to digital mockups.
As the ...
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Industry secrets of effective brochure / advert design
I don't have a formal education in design, so have never been taught any industry secrets or methodologies of general design.
I am however a seasoned web & graphic designer, and usually end up ...
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Photoshop Reducing File Size by Hiding Layers
I've recently learned that hiding Photoshop layers will reduce the file size.
After searching around the Adobe forums I can't find anything stating this. There are only about half a dozen sites on ...
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Mobile layout grid dimensions?
I am trying to figure out what the standard grid layout is for ios6 and possibly android. I use photoshop cs6 and recently sketch 2. What dimensions should I set?
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Games Design & Illustration - Starting Off
So I primarily have a background in Interface Design and wish to expand my skill set into illustration and game design.
I've recently armed myself with a Bamboo tablet and want to get serious about ...
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Illustrator extrude and bevel keep messing up
How do I get an image to extrude and bevel using illustrator CS6.
The shape that's having the issues has effect>texture>texturizer and then I uploaded a psd file.
When I then select ...
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The best software for electronic device design (phones, etc.) [closed]
I am looking for the best CAD software to design my products electronically, I know of autodesk and solidworks, but is there anything else, maybe open-source? I am a student at MIT, I hope companies ...
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Can Inkscape be associated to SVG as the primary tool of the trade? [closed]
I'm planning to make an icon to represent SVG. I know there are official logos, but I never saw them until I looked for them, and I don't believe many designers associate SVG to these logos.
My icon ...
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Which graphic design tool should I learn?
I usually build grey-ish government type applications but lately I've been try my hand at some iPhone and iPad work. It looks like graphic design plays a large part in these systems.
I'm wondering if ...
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how to reduce the size of my graphic design cv?
I designed my cv on Photoshop and then I did two things but still I have a problem:
I have two pages of my CV, I saved them as JPEG with save form web and then I combined them in a PDF in Acrobat ...
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How to get a light foggy look in photoshop
I've some some great usage of photos lately, especially in website headers that are light, easy on the eye, and don't attract too much attention. How can I create this same effect on my photos in ...
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What to change on this webpage, to look more elegant [closed]
I'm not ui ux engineer. I just want to hear your opinion/help on where would you (designers) put this grey box or app links, what is your opinion about colors?
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New generation of Add New icon that has no “+” (Plus) sign [closed]
could anyone suggest me a new way to represent the icon "Add New" without using any form of plus symbol.
For example, say Add New Quiz. How could I represent this as an icon without using any form of ...
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How to improve this design?
How can I improve this design? I'm kinda new to this and I've just felt a bit demotivated because I've been dealing with a difficult person.
I intend to make the color of the copyright notice darker ...
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Why are all my colors dull in Illustrator CS6?
I just installed Creative Suite 6 on my computer. I was working on some artwork for a client in Illustrator and having a hard time getting the right colors. I noticed they were all very dull. So I did ...
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“Cutout” effect in Fontographer 5
When I paste a thinner version of a letter on a bolder one, I get this cutout effect inside it, somewhat similar to this:
(please note that this is not my image, not my font and that I do not claim ...
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Where can I find Web Designers interested in improving their portfolio? [duplicate]
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How to hire a graphic designer?
I am a recent software engineer graduate and am interested in building a web service app for portfolio reasons. I would require a graphic ...
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How to store and use fonts externally on a Mac?
I'm setting up a new Mac :) I know that my huge font collection will bog down its performance considerably, so I'm looking for a way to store and access them externally - either on an external drive, ...
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design inspiration collection of horizontal website layouts?
Who knows a good resources to get some fresh design inspirations for horizontal layouts? Searching google gives some blogposts with relative bad quality designs.
I look for fresh, inspiring layouts ...
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London Olympics Ticket Design - How to?
I'm in the process of designing a program invite and thought I could experiment something similar to the London Olympics ticket.
I am more interested in knowing how I can go about designing the blue ...
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Standards when creating Icons
I'm in the process of creating some icons for an application, and find myself coming up with the same question over and over again. Are there any guidelines for how thick the lines should be in an ...
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amalgamation morphing effects
Doesn't mean to ripped off. I know how to create morphing between images but does anyone know how to make the animated wavy effects showcase here?
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list with links design
i have a site (no CMS platform) that has a list with links.
I have a list of 14 links. These links refer to pdf files. If someone want to
read the content of these pdf files, he must follow a certain ...
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How to: Line 3D effect?
How would one go about creating a lined 3D effect as shown in the image below?
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Any tips to design for a 1024 resolution? (especially with fonts and font sizes)
In terms of tips, are there any good resources or things to keep in mind with things like font and typography? Any "ideal" or happy medium sizes to keep in mind?
I'm working on a project where the ...
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businescard disguised as a real iphone, anoyone knows a good mockup / sample?
I try to create a businesscard like below. I searched for the internet for an template to no avail. So playing now around with Illustrator but im not that of a design guru. Does anyone know if below ...
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Pricing for Website Design (Graphics Only)
I was wondering if someone could advise me on pricing for a website design.
I'm redesigning a blog/travel site for an individual. The site is about 8 pages plus some modules, etc. I'm also ...
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Photo Manipulation and texture… like instagram
Does anyone have any recommendations, links, or tutorials on how to create a similar effect to this using a normal photo?
More: http://www.behance.net/gallery/Nike-60-Surfcali/1242523
My goal is ...
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Which design system is used?
Which design system is used here:
http://perfectionalism.tumblr.com/post/22604543313
I'm trying to learn about the Golden Ratio and Fibonacci, so curious about what is used here.
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Who are the main exponents (and books) on Design Strategy?
At my web shop we have been studying Content Strategy to implement it and raise the business value of our web development service/product. Upon modelling our business process I stumbled upon what ...
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Web storage for graphic data
I need good web/cloud (paid/free) storage for my graphic work. It's lots of data with photos and videos too. Any ideas?
