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Which tools are used to create illustrations for the web?
I have seen quite a few great illustrations placed as headers or footers, for example, see this or this. I was wondering which tools are used to make such illustrations. Can I create this kind of ...
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Where can I find backgrounds for my poster?
I'm designing a 3'x2' flex poster for my startup. I'm a long time GIMP user but this is the first time I'm designing poster for printing (Vector graphics).
Coming to the design. It's pretty simple. ...
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Learning Graphic Design [duplicate]
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Tips and sources for programmers who must or want to learn graphic design.
I would like to learn the basics of graphic design. I am a programmer, but I often end up giving my ...
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How to classify the style of Guild Wars 2?
I need some photoshop brushes, and I swear I've seen the name of this style before - http://www.guildwars2.com/en/
I absolutely love that grungey/painted style, but no matter what I'm searching in my ...
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3D car models freely available [closed]
I enjoy messing around with 3DS Max, and I've always had my way without too many tutorials, as I do pretty much everything in modelling by intuition, and use tutorials for things like effects, ...
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Infographics smoothing and shadows : background or ressources ?
i'd like to know if there are resources or background knowledge on the new tendency to smooth the lines/outlines and add gradients and shadows to information graphics. For example, on the new version ...
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How do I automate checking conditions on a TIFF?
When I've finished editing, I need to make sure I've met the formatting requirements of my client. I have a checklist that i'd love to be able to automate. Within photoshop would be great; even better ...
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Typing single quotes in InDesign
Every time I type character ' InDesign converts it to ›; why? How do I fix it?
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How to create a background like Dribbble.com?
I'm curious about the background of http://dribbble.com/ . I've seen something similar on a couple of other sites too.
What's it called?
How can I create something like with a different color?
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Which tool to balance color strength ?
lets say I have a rectangle divided in two complementary colors, yellow and purple.
How can I calculate the percentage of surface that both colors require so that none seem to take over ? (I'm ...
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How to get this design in photoshop?
I am working on a website and i want to add a menu bar which would look something like this
Since my website has different look and also i want to change the size. I was wondering if anyone could let ...
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For a portfolio of hi-res digital art, is bigger better?
I want to show a dozen of my digital art pieces in a physical portfolio. These works are in large image files - 8000x10000 pixels, for example. They can be printed on 11x17 paper and come out ...
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What is this symbol in Photoshop CS3
What does this symbol in Photoshop CS3 mean? It doesn't look like a standard layer symbol, but yet it has gradient styles on it without any layer effects applied.
Thanks.
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Photoshop Guides for widescreen web designs
Does anybody know what the guides should be set at get a basic viewport for the typical 13" widscreen laptop?
Anybody know of a template of sorts that can assist in this matter?
Thanks in advance.
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Photoshop Faded Transparency
I have a render...
...of a computer game character that uses particle effects, making it difficult to render.
What's the best way to make the background transparent? I've already tried a soft edged ...
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Looking for inspiration: examples of a web calendar with fancy "pop-up" details for each day
I'm designing a web calendar application. The starting view shows a small-ish calendar with a number of events listed on each day. The calendar cell for today, for example, contains the words "March ...
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Adobe illustrator | Save for web | Small logo is not pixel-grid-aligned
When I save a 4000x1000px large image into a fraction of it's size (100px in width), there are rectangles equal of size and color that does not look identical any more.
The logo is simply text with ...
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Free fast and easy animation with sound
I'm looking for a quick way to make a video clip from a series of images, combined with sound. I have about 30 images, and just need them to be played one at a time, with a 1-2 second delay between ...
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Colors in Website Design
It's not a kind of question but rather it's a kind of thing which effects a lot in web designing.
What are some important rules to follow for making a color combination in web design?
I always fail ...
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Choosing colors that work well on projectors
When specifying colors for use in a software user interface, what's the best way to ensure that those colors will look acceptable on all common display technologies: CRT, LCD, and in particular ...
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How can I make this text (slightly) more 'Chinese-looking'?
How can I make this text (slightly) more Chinese looking?
(examples will be appreciated if possible).
(I think the purpose of doing this is obvious).
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Rectangle and circle shapes alignment/sizing
I am having a hard to figure out what are the right proportions between a rectangular and a circular shapes and how to horizontally align them. These two shapes are two icons but they always look ...
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What font is used in the Best Western Hotels logo?
I'm interested in making a joke t-shirt for a friend that changes the text on the "Best Western" logo. Does anyone know what font that is (pictured below), or what font most closely simulates it?
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Thick "Initial" font, with a particular "S"
I want wondering if anyone knew of any commercial-free fonts where the "S" doesn't curve down, but instead the ends go horizontally? I'm having a hard time searching for something with that kind of ...
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Scriptable Image Editing Desktop Applications
PhotoShop and (IIRC) FireWorks both allow for batch processing of images following a recorded script. Are there other desktop image editing applications I could look at that also have that same ...
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How do I turn off anti-aliased brushes in Photoshop CS5?
My brush keeps drawing gray-scales around my lines. I want to remove the gray pixels so I can use the bucket-tool without any problems.
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Scripting actions by hand in Photoshop / Bridge
Does anyone know if there's a less clunky way of creating actions than by using the built-in recording function in Photoshop? For instance, if I have an Action I want to alter slightly (add a step, ...
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How do I prevent shapes becoming vector masks in Photoshop?
Photoshop automatically adds a vector mask whenever I use shape tool.how do I stop it from adding vector masks?
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Scanning line art for press
I would like to know what's the standard resolution for line-art if you'll include it in a for-press production?
I intend on this process:
scan image (as RGB or Grayscale)
convert to grayscale if ...
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March Madness Bracket on Website
I've got a little site I built for myself and a friend that let's us run our tiny little March Madness pool. Functionally, it works great. But for the display of the brackets, it's, well, just plain ...
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Illustrator CS3 - upscaling placed or embedded raster graphics with interpolated antialiasing on export?
I've designed some popup banners (output dimensions 840mm x 2000mm @ 300dpi) and used vectors throughout with the exception of some stock photography for their backgrounds. I've been Linking all ...
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What is a good sequence of projects to learn design?
I'm sure it rings a bell when I say that you learn more about design when you actually try to do it, and then getting quality feedback (critiques) of your work. I'm trying to figure out what would be ...
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How to get this text effect in Fireworks? (or at a push, Photoshop!)
I love the effect on this logo and was wondering if anyone knew any tutorials to help get a similar effect?
Thank you!
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Making an Effective Menu
I am making a menu for an indie game and I'm not quite satisfied with my results. The menu itself needs two text fields (one to enter your username and the other for your password) and two buttons. (“...
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How does a printshop print large solid blocks of colour
For example: a 1.8m banner with a solid red background and white text. How would a printshop go about printing this? Surely they don't use a liter of red ink.
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A common reset for IE, Gecko and Webkit browsers
I am developing a website that emphasizes a lot on CSS. I wish to pre-inform everyone that I am not a professional with the task. The problem I face designing the UI is that Gecko and Webkit browsers ...
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Is it possible to remove part of an image (and the canvas) in Photoshop?
I have a web design in photoshop but it is too long. I'd like to remove a horizontal section from the middle. Can this be done?
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How long of a name do you budget for in a template?
I'm designing a name overlay for a series of videos and I'm curious how long of a name I should budget for without knowing what ones might come my way.
As it's for a video it should be reasonably ...
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Adobe Fireworks' blend mode not showing in browser
Image's blend mode is set as multiply and it is showing the effect correctly in Adobe Fireworks. However, when overlapping the same image with another, separate image in the browser, the effect looks ...
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Restart indesign ruler at every page
In indesign 5, I have created several A4 pages after another. However the ruler stretches over the three pages, see picture below, and I would rather see them "restarting" at every page, i.e. ever ...
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Any idea when blending modes might be implemented in browsers?
I think it would be great for div's/img's to get some of the functionality that "layers" have in photoshop.
Right now, using .png's, div's/img's/etc.'s have their RGB and alpha values. If you have a ...
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Why does anti-aliasing in black characters use colors other than gray-scale ?
I'm a developer, I'm not a graphic designer. But there's one question that bugs me every since I've noticed it some years ago.
Anti-aliasing is a method for removing the sharpiness from high contrast ...
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How can I automatically determine multiple fonts used in a single image?
I am looking for a tool that I can give it an image filled with different fonts and it will give me their font type.
I know of this tool:
http://new.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/
Thing with this ...
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What font is used in this web app's menu button? [closed]
I am software developer on a legacy web application project. We have a menu bar whose buttons are a combination of an icon and some descriptive text. I am currently adding a new feature, and it ...
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How to keep organized Web Sites for Inspiration [closed]
I usually find inspiration from many CSS Galleries, But I don't have an idea of how I can keep organized all those nice creations for inspiration. I've tried to make some bookmarks in Chrome but I don'...
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How do you design and format a logo for a baseball cap? [closed]
The logo will be embroidered. How many colors should you use in your design?
Does the cost go up significantly for more colors?
What exactly is stitch count?
What format should the file be saved in ...
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Well designed layout examples of a "step-by-step tutorial" publication
I'm trying to find examples of beautifully designed step-by-step tutorials. As different layouts as possible, to feed my imagination so I can build on that.
I'm particularly interested in page ...
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What is a good book/guide on Graphic Design for a complete beginner? [duplicate]
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Tips and sources for programmers who must or want to learn graphic design.
I am a programmer, though I am quite interested in visual design, interaction design and usability.
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What layout and interface elements work well for a control panel-style app?
I'm working on a web-based app that's similar to a control panel, with lots of different settings and features to configure. The challenge is making it easy for users to find what they want without ...
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Fully Importing A Saved Colour Palette In Illustrator?
Is there any way to fully import a saved colour palette into Illustrator? I once saved a colour palette from one project and wanted to import the colours for use in another project, but I found that ...
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