Questions tagged [images]
Questions that include methods for creating, editing, manipulating and enhancing images. Ask anything related to the design of images.
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Where are some good places to find royalty free stock images?
I'm always on the hunt for free stock images to use while I design, what are some good resources for images that are under a a royalty free or creative commons licence?
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Text not very readable on different image backgrounds
I've come here seeking for a bit of design help or advice on how I could possibly improve the following:
Like the title says, I'm having a website banner with multiple text displayed on different ...
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Overlay to make image look dusty with fragmented text
I might be utilising the wrong terms, for I was unable to find any relevant images on both Pinterest and Google Images.
I am looking for an illustration with transparent background and here and there ...
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Can image transparency be calculated automatically from multiple non-transparent samples?
I'm wondering if there is a way to automatically calculate transparent image from set of non-transparent ones. No manual work with individual pixels or manual setting of opacities.
Many times I need ...
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What is the correct style that describes the following images
What is the name or names of the style used in the following images. They are used on Google, Facebook, atlassian.com, bitbucket.org and on info-graphics.
I refer to them as lifestyle images but ...
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How to make an image look like it's been printed
I'm wondering if anyone has any tips, tutorials or templates on how to 'fake' a printed effect. I want to make it look in my portfolio like I have printed business cards and other collateral without ...
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How to batch resize an image and create multiple sizes (with Photoshop)?
I want to batch resize an image in multiple sizes with Photoshop.
The sizes are most of the time the same so I would like to have profiles for a set of fixed sizes.
Ideally I just need to open my ...
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Reduce file size without losing quality
I would like to save files in Photoshop but keep them as small as possible.
I use Save for Web (and Devices) and save as a JPEG. Here are the settings I used:
I really do not want to lower the ...
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I need some help understanding DPI
I have designed a custom deck of cards and I want to send my designs to print. It took me a few weeks to complete my designs using GIMP. I'm new to digital design and made a mistake – I did not set ...
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How to extend the background of an image?
I have an image with a woman, and I need to make an ad (size 260mmx125mm). I want to put the woman to the left side, but then right side becomes empty. So, how I should solve the problem? I have ...
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Imitate a photo realistic rendering of a book cover
I have the image of a front cover of a book, for example,
that I would like to use (along with the image of the spine) to produce the image on the right, which is, a sideways view of the same book. ...
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Resizing Images without changing the proportions or losing quality
Hi my client has given me a load of images for the site I'm building for him, they are going in a Javascript Image Nivo Slider Banner at the top, the size of the banner is 720px x 200px but the images ...
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GIMP: How to crop a layer?
I have a screenshot where I want only a part of the pasted image, and I want to turn the white that's in it transparent.
First I need to crop the pasted image. I have selected the layer and a ...
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What's the best way to remove a white background when the Magic Wand tool doesn't cut it?
I'm having trouble removing a white background with complex images like these ones. When I use the Magic Wand tool on them I just end up cutting way too much stuff away or not enough and leaving white ...
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Techniques to dramatically scale an image
I have been given an impossible task:
Take a picture image (jpg) at 1422 x 1067 px with 100 dpi and scale it to 86400 x 29376 px (that's equivalent to 34ft x 100ft or 30.5 meters x 10.36 meters)
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How to create an image with complex gradient?
I need to create an image like this, but I do not know what software or technique to use. I tried to use the Mesh Tool in Illustrator, but the result is odd, also I tried to blur an image in Photoshop,...
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How to optimize images to improve pagespeeds / webpage loading times?
This is almost a StackOverflow question, however it's completely related to Photoshop and other tools. With every Pagespeed test I do for all my website I get the comment "Optimize images by lossless ...
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how to make a distort effect?
My English is pretty basic, please don't mind. Wondering how to make the liquify wave and distort color effect in Photoshop? I'd tried using distort>shear/wave/zigzag, but still can't make it similar ...
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Cleaning up line art with choppy edges
So, a while back I created this icon from a game, but looking back on it behind a white background instead of an alpha-channel its edges are super choppy in some places while it's smooth in others, ...
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Preventing reverse search engines from finding the origin of your image?
I am planning to make a game, where I give the user an anime related image and they have to guess where its from.
However, most of the images, specially from popular anime are easy to use on Google ...
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Is it safe to use an image when I'm unable to identify its source?
I found a photo on the internet and want to use it in my free Android app.
The problem is that I can't find the source, so I don't know if this photo is legally available for such use or not.
What ...
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How can I reduce the file size of a JPEG keeping the same image width and height?
I have a 700Kb JPEG file (white cardboard texture) that I'm using as a background on a website.
A file this large takes too long to load for snappy page hits. I don't need the full resolution, a ...
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“Select by color” and “draw path from selection” in Inkscape?
I imported an image to Inkscape. Now I'd like to select all those regions that have the same (or to a certain degree similar) color. From this selection I'd like to draw a path (to which I can add a ...
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How do I know which images are copyrighted and not?
Using google images you can find any image you want these days, even high resolution. The question is how do I know what I can use image wise in the graphic design work assuming that the graphic work ...
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Working with psb in a psd
EDIT: A Big update on this topic is presented with PS CC 14.2! Now you can have linked smart objects, it works like in InDesign. Just go to 'File → Place Linked' and choose your PSB file.
This is the ...
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How can I create an animation of an image being drawn/painted, automatically?
I'm looking for some software that will allow me to create an animation of a given image being drawn in real time. For example, I have a jpeg. It's a picture of my pet dog, and I want some software ...
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Is it easy to convert an image to a cartoon with high quality?
Is it easy to convert an image to a cartoon with high quality ? Like this:
I've watched this tutorial : but the quality of the outcome is still far away from the one above.
Is there a way to make ...
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Common ground for image sizes when using Photoshop save to web
Recently, I was working on an image in Photoshop and wanted to save it for web usage. I wanted to know whether there is a good size to go with for the modern design standards when it comes to websites....
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Real non-destructive way of clonestamp tool in Photoshop
I am importing my raw-images from a dslr in photoshop as a SmartObject. The first step I do in my workflow is removing the "dust & scratches" with the clone-stamp-tool and the spot-healing-brush.
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Does anyone know the name of travel posters from the 1930s?
Is there a name for this design style - use of flat colours for dimension and shading - that was so prevalent in UK travel posters of the 1930s?
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put partly transpared photo on top of panorama
What is it nessesary to do if I want to see just black edges from background image in image placed on top?
Here are links to source images
This is what I want to create:
You can see there are ...
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How do I convert a black/white image so that the it has a transparency gradient (White=opaque/Black=transparent/Grey=Everything in between.)
I have a logo image which I need to make transparent for my web page. I need the black parts of the image to be transparent while the white is opaque and the greys are of various levels of ...
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How to reduce image file size more?
I have to process a lot of pictures for a website. The smaller the better but the quality has to stay good. Now I know that image file sizes differ depending on the dimension, colors, meta data... But ...
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Instagram profile image is blurred [duplicate]
When I upload this 110x110px image with 100px resolution it seams blurry.
Have any idea what's happening? Do you think it's the color?
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Create an artboard automatically to the size of an image (Illustrator)
I am trying to figure out how to make an artboard automatically snap to the size of an image.
I know that you can draw a rectangle, then go to the Artboards window and choose "Convert to Artboards" ...
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Safety of using images found through Google image search
I am working on a Facebook education page for my church. I often find Google search images that don't have an obvious copyright symbol at the bottom of the article or blog. How do I know if these ...
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Is it possible to uncurl an image of a handwritten book page?
I have a small (4x3 inch) Catholic prayer book handwritten in German gothic script. prayer book was written by a 4 Great grandfather. I plan to pass this prayer book down to younger relatives but I ...
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How do I choose a good cover photo for my website?
It's been trendy to have large background images with relatively little text over them for headers and intros to web pages including the start of blog posts. I could give countless examples of this, ...
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Image search engine, but for logos / How do you spot plagiarized logos?
Is there such a thing?
A search engine where you're able to upload an image with a logo, and you get results of sites that are using that logo :)
I tried Googles image search: http://www.google.com/...
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Difference between 8 bit and 16 bit in Photoshop
I have been working on Photoshop for quite some time now, but there is one thing that has got me confused till now. Is it better to be working on a 16 bit color mode or an 8 bit one? I know that the ...
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How do I convert an RGB black and white photograph to just CMYK black
I have a JPG that is part color and part black and white. How do I convert the black and white part to just black on CMYK? Right now the black and white section is made of all the colors. I tried ...
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How do I extend an image by adding blur to sides?
I need to make an image 1080 x 1920. But when I do, the image looks very distorted. Is there a way I can extend an image by adding this blur to the sides of it? Also, does anyone know what this is ...
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How to paste a part of an image in the same coordinates I cut it from?
I want to cut a specific part of an image, then paste it in another image in the same coordinates I cut it from. So, if I cut it and it was in (100, 112) then I paste it in (100, 112) in the other ...
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How can I save only one layer as a PNG file in Photoshop
I wanted save some layers as PNG files and I had opened a new window for every .png file and pasted in there and sometimes crop it.
Is there a way to export just a few or one selected layer and not ...
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Check dpi of png file
I am requested to provide an image file that should be supplied at 300 dpi resolution for .jpeg and .tiff or as .png files. I already have a png file here. When I check "file" in cmd I got:
Figure ...
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Best practices for full width browser images?
What are the best practices people follow in respect to images on larger viewports?
What size browser should we design for? Meaning how do we deal with high resolution monitors and what % of users ...
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Advice for creating a fluid and responsive graphic
So I'm creating an entirely responsive website, with the aim of using as few media queries and magic numbers as possible. I've found after a number of attempts, that using the content to create the ...
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High pass photoshop filters skips the edges of the histogram?
In this Natalia Taffarel presentation, she explains that photoshop high-pass filter "skips the edges" of the histogram and that for creating an accurate high-pass filter we have to apply -50 contrast ...
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What do you call this image effect and how is it achieved?
I've been trying to describe this effect on google and got no useful results. Seems like its a mix between a tint via the overlay and the offset?
Here is another example, but the effect seems less ...
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