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Shelton719

: Check your brush presets, this is the best way to do it. You can just remove opacity from the brush in the toolbar and reduce amount of leaves (Spacing) and it will look just like the

Becky351

: Questions regarding illusions or visual tricks in the design process, whether it be from software (i.e. Photoshop, Illustrator, GIMP) or through technique. See also Special Effects: The illusions

Voss6371140

: Questions that include methods for creating, editing, manipulating and enhancing images. Ask anything related to the design of images.

Twilah924

: Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C. The design goals of XML

Marchetta832

: This is actually achievable in Illustrator. You need 3 Objects for this: Top: Copy of your original ribbon Middle: Rectangle where you cropped out the original ribbon shape Bottom: Your original

Nickens508

: Fireworks: Export from layers - Include common layer? I am versed in exporting all visible layers in Fireworks to separate files. What I would like to is one notch more sophisticated - I'd

YK2262411

: Japanese is an Asian language with a writing system more complicated than the Latin alphabet. Of Chinese origin, it uses two syllabaries and one ideograph script, possibly all in the same sentence.

Looi7658678

: Uniconvertor can convert from a .cdr file to an .ai file among others. "UniConvetor is used in Inkscape and Scribus projects as external tool for CorelDraw files importing. "

RJPawlick971

: There's tons of them. Google will lead you to many. Iconfactory is perhaps the most well known. But icon sets are a dime a dozen these days. There's also some very nice open source sets.

Bethany839

: You could try a social bookmarking site like delicious.com. You don't get the thumbnails (which would go out of date anyway) but you can tag your bookmarks with keywords, making it quite a

Cody3331749

: A graphic representation of informational data.

Nimeshi706

: I believe what you're looking for is subpixel rendering. It's a way of tricking the eye and the display into rendering images sharply at smaller sizes. In your case, I would have 2 files,

Samaraweera207

: I checked how to do that long a go and every research lead to doing it in illustrator and then importing it to photoshop. which is just adding a normal stroke and it gives you the dashed

Hamaas979

: This texture could be a fabric or some other pattern that has been scaled and possibly colored as well. (The linked screenshot is really small, so it's hard to tell.)

Si6392903

: CMYK The CMYK model is a subtractive color model using four colors, Cyan Magenta Yellow and Key (black). The ink is usually applied in the order of its abbreviation, but this can depend on

Sent7350415

: If you need to retain the shapes and don't have to be pixel-perfect about the anti-aliasing, you can use selections as a quick & easy guide. Selections always snap to-pixel so they are

Bryan765

: Take your existing icon, and make sure it's not locked, or the background layer. Then, create a new layer, and make sure your icon is above the background layer. Using a selection tool,

Vandalay110

: I can think of two ways to do this, but they aren't perfect. I am certain there are other methods as well. 1) create a path, pick a rectangular brush (or make your own), set a brush tip

Welton168

: For ui elements you should check http://365psd.com

Alves566

: The Corel Draw suite provides pretty good bang for buck, providing an image editor (Photo Paint), Vector drawing program (Corel Draw), plus a suite of other utilities. Adobe snobbery aside,

Sarah814

: A good tip when scanning line drawings is to increase both the brightness and contrast. That'll remove a lot of extra scribbles and erase marks, leaving just the heaviest lines.

Murphy569

: Figure 1: Ishihara colorblindedness test. I just answered a similar question, at some length: What's a good source of color palettes to provide to a color-blind user? The basic upshot

Ravi4787994

: I would bet this is due to your mask. Your psd shows pretty much a white halo around your objects which when flattened will get worse. After some quick tests (in Pixelmator), saving the

Goswami567

: There are two JavaScript libraries that you might find helpful for pulling something like this off: Raphael.js Processing.js Otherwise, there are many, many charting libraries that you could

Angela777

: I suspect that the curve on that shadow might be an optical illusion of sorts. As @lawndartcatcher explains in his answer, the curved look can be achieved by making the intensity (or opacity)

Dunderdale640

: Rather than using opacity of the brush, you should choose shades of gray for your brushes. That way overlapped strokes will not add up and get darker. You can also use "Lighten" and "Darken"

BetL875

: First, always make sure you are painting the mask, and not the layer. So remember with layer masks, black in the mask = 100% transparent. Any level of gray between equals that much transparency.

Yeniel278

: In eight keystrokes. This solution requires CS4 or higher. If your image is one single layer, only do steps 4 and 6-8. On Windows use CTRL instead of CMD. Fn+F7 or F7 (open the layer panel)

Shakeerah625

: Are there easy ways to convert an image to a cartoon achieving a high quality? Possible Duplicate: Is it easy to convert an image to a cartoon with high quality? Is there some

Ogunnowo857

: To require that much bleed you must be printing something quite large. In that case, most of the time large prints requires a 150 DPI resolution so here's what I usually do in that case:

Kevin459

: It looks like an extremely stretched circle with a 2 or 3px feather to me... not a gradient or true drop shadow at all. layer 1 layer2 (circle marquee with 2px feather and anti-alias on

Turnbaugh909

: The most common kind of color blindness is red-green color blindness (which may be a defect in detecting red or in detecting green, but rarely both). So avoid relying upon distinctions in

Phylliss782

: I needed to do the same thing for a deck of cards. Here is the solution I found: Select the "Slice Tool" Right click the image -> "Divide Slices..."

Pierce403

: Questions about designing the aesthetic look of websites, both practical and theoretical. For questions about coding the structure of a website, please go to Stack Overflow. For questions about

Jessie844

: @sanjeev bhai This link will help you for sure....:) http://designreviver.com/articles/better-drop-shadows-in-photoshop/ Just do the same things with your shape...

Lee3735518

: I think we can do this if your layer size is smaller then the canvas then.. Ctrl+Click on Layer selection appear then click on Image Menu and then click on Crop your selected screen will

Tiffany317

: Honestly, if you're willing to do the work, just re-create the text in Illustrator. In Photoshop, assuming you haven't rasterized your text layers or your layer effects (convert to layers),

Cofer715

: This can be achieved as a texture fill, or a layer with horizontal lines that has a layer mask. (a single line can be created and then duplicated using for instance "transform") My opinion

Holmes874

: I can tell you how to do it in Photoshop, maybe you can then use the result to make it vector? Just make a series of parallel lines (in a new layer). Use Filter/Distort/Polar coordinates...

Jamie315

: You might check this out: http://insideria.com/2009/12/28-rich-data-visualization-too.html

Pope1402555

: The brush can be set to Paint Behind. Towards the bottom of the tool panel are a bunch of buttons that appear when you have the brush selected; when you hover over the buttons you see

Murray976

: Learning Graphic Design Possible Duplicate: 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

Carla748

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Sue6373160

: A common convention is to put flames around the icon of anything popular. You see this on forums and message boards quite often, in particular. If it's appropriate for your demographic, stylized

Kaufman565

: Pixel art is a design style that mimicks the pixelation and simple, bright colour schemes of early video game graphics. It often uses simple, bright colour schemes, large, visible pixel-like

Karen819

: This is a bit lengthy, but not too difficult. Part 1: Creating the Pattern Create new file in Photoshop. Go to File > New... or press Ctrl+N, enter the values of 200px for Width and Height.

Eichhorn212

: I found a pretty good match for the "JOY" with Imprint Shadow on Identifont: The "God's Joy is" text is almost certainly some variant of Cheltenham.

Gail6891361

: How to explain the difference between stealing the design and copying the design? Possible Duplicate: Where does inspiration end, where does illegitimate copying start? How to explain

Margaret771

: DeviantArt has a nice list at What screen resolutions are accepted in the Wallpaper gallery? (Resolutions marked in bold are the current most often encountered monitor resolutions)

Ann6370331

: In Photoshop, pull out guides where you want to slice the image. When you have all the guides in place, choose the slice tool from the tool palette. Once the slice tool is chosen, you will

Angie364

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Speyer780

: I would say it's a fabric-like denim. Though I don't quite understand the purpose of this question.

Cooney243

: Questions about the purposeful arrangement/organization of graphic and typographic elements regarding aspects of graphic properties (e.g. shape, size, color, texture, space), visual perception (e.g.

Candy945

: Questions about batch processing, a technique of automatically applying the same set of commands/actions to a collection of files. It can save time for designers who need to apply the same

Rivera951

: From the UX perspective: dont use saturated and bright red and blue together. Not the best for the users eyes when the screen has saturated bright colors from the opposite ends of the color

Deb5748823

: Be creative ! Have fun! A few suggestions: Only use the first name as a "brand" and the last name sort of like a tag line, something like this: Or as an alternative: Invent a name

Heady304

: From my experience some designers simply resizes the text as other objects. so the text may look different because it has no proper dimension (10px,12px..). So you can set almost nearer size

Martha945

: Adobe Kuler might help

Gonzalez368

: Graphic Design is for questions targeted toward design professionals, students, and enthusiasts. This includes questions about: Graphic arts theory and history; "Why" we do what we do and not

Gloria351

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Kristi927

: In my experience it is best to design a logo that is going to be used in embroidery with as few colors as possible. Three colors should be a good number. The cost usually goes up per

Berryessa866

: Questions about the set of geographical primitives (ellipse, line, rectangle, polygon, Bézier curve) represented as vector mediums. Custom shapes can be produced by combining any of the aforementioned

Debbie163

: Try using InDesign. There's an inner shadow effect there and that way your image can be vector :) Not sure why they don't have the same options in Illustrator!

Smith574

: After Effects is the best program for this. There is also a wave effect effecting the opacity of the tiles which cant easily be replicated in PS. GIF is just a format to export to after

Annie732

: EMF file has transparent background instead of a white one INTRODUCTION AND RELEVANT INFORMATION: I am a programmer who needs to put an EMF file on a certain place in my applications main window.

Chiappetta793

: By unchecking the "Constrain Proportions" the lock on the dimensions is removed, and you can set the horizontal and vertical size independently. Resizing the image without the lock may stretch

Megan533

: I worked as an embroiderer for about 6 months in a small local shop, specifically making embroidered ball-caps. We preferred clients who came in with an already vectorized logo (Adobe Illustrator

Lengel450

: Subtle radial gradient for the background. It has a constant hue. The saturation varies because they wanted a soft, plastic effect. The "hole" effect is made via a Photoshop feature called

Shelley591

: There are many kinds of color blindness. The key is to make sure there's adequate contrast. Even better, don't rely on color alone - have the same information always covered in shape, contrast

Sims5801359

: I suggest you either buy Corel Draw, or ask your supplier to save the files as EPS.

XinRu324

: If you want a inner shadow from the top for example, copy and past (ctrl+f) your shape, them move down just a lil bit, paste again (ctrl+b) and crop the objects. You will see the form

Radia289

: Read the manuals? Gimp can be scripted in Scheme (and some other languages like Lua). Inkscape can be scripted in Python, I think. Photoshop can be scripted in its own language (VBA?) too.

Rambettina927

: Questions about CMYK; short for cyan, magenta, yellow and key(black). It's the colour process and model used for colour visualisation in colour printing. Ask anything relevant to graphic design

Gretchen549

: After Selecting shape layer, press Enter, this is works for me.

Berumen635

: If you're creating evenly-spaced rays, there is a simpler way to do it in Illustrator: Create a circle. Give the circle a dashed stroke with weight equal to the diameter of the circle. Object

Merenda852

: I instantly recommend you to look at the website Typography for Lawyers ( http://www.typographyforlawyers.com/ ) - in particular the font recommendations http://www.typographyforlawyers.com/?p=587 )

Jennifer810

: There are some tools for firefox out there Example Afaik, there's also a certificate that has some guidelines. I looked into my papers but haven't found it so far. Google will surely tell

Cugini998

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Odierno310

: It sort of looks like one of the default fabric type patterns in photoshop

Sherry646

: Click and drag the gradient fill into position while the Layer Style dialogue box is still open.

Murray664

: This appears to be possible now. Steps I took: Created Master Page Created child page When viewing child page, go to layers pallet and click "New/Duplicate Layer" Drag your new layer below the

Caterina889

: If you want it to be rendered in browser, you can use the HTML5 Canvas. Otherwise, using an SVG is better for this type of stuff, IMHO.

Correia448

: Mobile-first design Mobile-first design is where the primary design is for a mobile device, and other device implementations scale up from it. This is compared to the traditional design ethic

Connie430

: Here's my attempt at creating this using CSS. The main idea here is to use both CSS3 multiple backgrounds and gradients to create the effect - a radial transparent to semi-transparent black

LarsenBagley460

: You can just select the two (or more) layers you want to merge and then choose "convert to smart object" -- See this forum thread.

Steve758

: Also, one way is creating a transparent layer below the base layer(make it movable by, e.g., cloning it (CTRL+J in Windows) then deleting/hiding the original base layer) and then setting the

Fox8063795

: 1) Create a gradient that has the areas that are "shallower" (not as much of a drop shadow) with lower opacity values. 2) Apply that to either a rectangular mask or selected area on a floating

Miguel516

: I've used this site before to find color palettes: ColourLovers

Mendez620

: As you have locations, the result may be an interactive map. Open-source interactive map software are not very numerous, but you can generate static images and then assemble them in an animation.

Shanna688

: What do you call this type of design? I was trying something like infographic design, typographic design...but I can't find lots of examples or tutorials, and it's weird because I've seen them

Moriarity648

: There should be no reason to save the image with transparency if you are including the background in the image. Saving a PNG with transparency means it will preserve the alpha channel parts

Reiling762

: Open a new Photoshop document. Using the Rounded Rectangle Tool (U), drag out your desired rectangle. Double click on your layer in your layers palette. The opens the Layer Styles dialog box.

Michele215

: Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. You need to consult a lawyer to get a definitive answer. You're now getting into a very hazy area of copyright law, and copyright law doesn't do much to help.

Barnes313

: Smooth out transition between elements I have a large number of elements (triangles) that together make up a bigger object. Each triangle has a slightly different fill color and no edge color.

Harper654

: Just before pasting, you need to deselect (Ctrl-D on Windows or Menu: SelectDeselect). When pasting, if you have a selection, the paste will be restricted to the selection. The feather

Courtney577

: Significant or not really depends on the user but the intuos4 certainly has changed a bit since its previous version. increased sensibility (2048 levels instead of previously 1024) I'm not

Hamm6457569

: On the problem machine, try resetting the Photoshop preferences. (Double-click the PS icon to open the program, then immediately hold down Ctl, Alt and Shift until you get the "Delete Preferences"

Kimberly620

: I'm going to summarize the answer from the related question "Blending Edges in Photoshop to a different color of an extracted object with different background color" Here. Read the original

Frith110

: Isn't this a better effect. I used for the box: Inner Shadow Inner Glow Drop shadow Pattern Gradient Then i used mask the desaturated layer, as you can see some places have more color and

Shelton105

: Answer is every "few seconds" -- which comes from their site... "Near the top of the page, the number of people currently on the site that these stats are for is displayed, updated every

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