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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Is there a "Fit to Canvas" option in Photoshop like there is in Fireworks?
I am a Fireworks user new to Photoshop. In FW there is the very handy "fit to canvas" button in the properties panel at the bottom which when clicked snaps the image to the canvas by adjusting the ...
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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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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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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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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 there a command-line program that can convert an image to an ASCII art image?
Is there a command-line program (for Linux) that can convert an image to ascii art and then save that output as an image e.g. jpg or png?
To illustrate what I'm in need of, I want to convert the ...
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InDesign: Faster way to resize image in frame
I'm using Adobe InDesign (CC 2014) to layout a photo book. I've created a frame, and placed an image inside it. I want to resize the image and drag it around to frame it nicely.
I know that you can ...
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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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Gimp Pasted Layer Move Tool
What I want to do is paste a picture to a new gimp file. I have the background layer and when I paste it puts it into the floating selection like expected. I found that I'm supposed to turn it into a ...
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How to add a simple border into an image in GIMP
I'm very new to GIMP and found that doing simple stuff in GIMP is much harder than it should be.
All I want to do is add a simple black border around an image layer. I have added this image using the ...
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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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How can I remove SUN light/shadow with Photoshop?
There is this image.
As you can see, top half is brightened by suns light, other half has shadow cast on it.
I would like to make both parts same so it looks like there is no shadow.
Is there any way ...
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How to link images relatively in Inkscape?
I would like to make relative links to pictures in an Inkscape file. So when I move the project files (images and the Inkscape master), I wouldn't have to relink the images.
What is the proper way to ...
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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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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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How can I alter a square image into a circular one in Sketch?
I want to take a rectangular image in Sketch and give it a circle/radius style.
For example:
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How to find the vertical midpoint of a Gimp image or canvas?
How can I locate the vertical midpoint of a gimp image? I searched online and found this post, but it didn't give me the simple, step-by-step solution I was looking for.
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How can I modify a GIF that uses "cumulative layers"?
When you save a GIF in GIMP, you're given the option to use cumulative layers (combine) or one frame per layer (replace).
Choosing cumulative layers causes the GIF's layers to only contain the pixels ...
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Are pixels in Photoshop logical or physical?
When I open an image then I can see it's size details from Image > Image Size..., it shows me:
The image has 600px = 8.33in width with resolution 72dpi. Now when I open this image in a browser it ...
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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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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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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 can I mask out airplane propellers properly?
I have this image which I wish to mask out the propellers properly. I thought maybe Refine Edge would do the work but it didn't success.
I would like to know what kind of tools I probably should use ...
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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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Create frozen screen effect
Is there a way to create this effect in Photoshop?
I could duplicate the same image over and over again, but that's just wrong. There should be an easier way.
Edit: Use of Illustrator and MS Paint ...
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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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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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With Photoshop CS5, how do you retain original size of an image dropped as a file into an open document?
If I'm working on a document in Photoshop and I want to drop in an image by dragging the file from Windows explorer into the open Photoshop document, I can do that. It inserts the dropped image in a ...
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What is the purpose of embedding a color profile when saving an image?
I am using RawTherapee to process images. This program (and I suspect many others) has an option called "Working Profile", which you can use to adjust how the image is displayed; and an other called "...
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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 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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Can a GIF have a CMYK profile?
While working on an InDesign script that checks the links used in a file I decided to check what color profile has been used on images so I can output it to a log for the user however when I write my ...
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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 was this image designed?
I've just came across a image with a peculiar effect. I'm not sure how they have hidden the original image in the lines(or layer perhaps?)
There has been no visible changes in color nor in the pattern ...
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How can I shrink these areas using gimp?
I have an imagemap. I want to shrink to areas that are pink and are overlays when hovering the mouse over the map to highlight the selected region. Now I can't seem to shrink the pink areas that are ...
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What is a "sprite"?
I am studying Fundamentals of Multimedia by Ze-Nian Li and Mark S Drew. They use the term "sprite" but I don't understand the meaning. Can someone explain to me what sprites are and how they are ...
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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 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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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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How to handle a client who only wants to purchase stock images from my design mockup, instead of my design?
I am a graphic designer who provided spec work for a client. I worked on a flyer and I gave them 2 options. They went with one, paid for it.
Now they have another project and would like to use the ...
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How do you create a translucent white background for text?
I am really struggling to create a white translucent background for text on top of an image with GIMP.
Pottery Barn Kids (http://www.potterybarnkids.com/) has one example of what I am trying to ...
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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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Is it possible to prevent download of images when designing a website?
Say you wish to provide sample high-quality images in your website but also wish to protect them from download, as in you can view them on screen but can't save from the website.
Is there a way to do ...
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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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How can you extend a motion in an image with Photoshop?
I have extended an image:
Now when zooming out it is like this:
It is clearly visible that the extend part wasn't part of the picture. Do you have any clue how I can fix this? I'm just trying to ...
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How can I create hand-drawn style graphics for my website?
I am developing a web page for web based application, i am new to web design, so forgive if i have asked very basic question.
i want to create icons and embed into my existing png image file. i have ...
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How to design a site without pictures
A site I'm creating is a directory which sorts and displays information for about 300 businesses which are part of a specific business partnership/network.
The site is meant to provide information to ...
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What do you call the technique of integrating type into an image / background with perspective?
I'm having a really hard time describing this:
It's from the GTA IV Title / Intro. I'm talking about the way the text is part of the image in regards to perspective. Some even go so far as to have ...
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