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Please don't say anything like, "it looks better", "it's more stable than Windows", "it performs better than Windows", or "it has better programs". I'm interested in what programs found only in Macs are better than Windows' programs. Everywhere I look, people are recommending them but use the reasons stated above as their backup. Are there programs found only in MacBooks that are superior to Windows' programs? I understand some people may charge more (for printing services and the like) if any graphics are presented on a platform besides Macintosh, but is there any other solid reasoning?

Please look at my portfolio at www.coroflot.com/bennettdesign and let me know which are your favorites and which should be left off. Feel free to praise or bash anything on there! Thanks _________________ neon clocks short run cd duplication

ok heres my latest one for a client, would be nice to get some feedback on it before showing it to the client. Please bare in mind the content isnt exactly lined up 100% i tend to leave that for the coding side of it so im just looking for feedback on the actually design itself not the content and its alignment. Thanks in advance i might not make the banner carry on into the contents background and just make it simple semi-trans peach im also not sure on the footer i was fiddling about with it for a while but couldnt find a nice colour that fit (probably due to the main content background

Hi all, Im very new to using Illustrator but ive been playing around a bit and watch youtube vids etc but im having real trouble getting anything 3D to look good, im trying to get the omega symbol in 3D so i can change the colour on the sides etc making them different from the front, also making stuff like shiny too, how do you make a circle look round? Also with text, how do you get a reflection of the text under the original text? I can find photoshop tutorials for stuff like this but not much for illustrator. Any help would be great. Cheers Shawn

Hi I have some logos designed in photoshop using only web-safe colour palettes. For some reason, on the iPhone these graphics do not match the colours on the screen on my Mac. This means they do not merge correctly with the background colours etc. Any reason why this may be the case? Cheers

Logo design is something that asked a fair bit on here, and i just found this and i feel it's worth of a post http://imjustcreative.com/keyboard-kahuna-identity-development/2010/03/24/

Hi, Do any of you have any techniques I can use to make this image tile? Or is it simply just not possible? Thanks, Josh

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Ok, so I've been working on a template for a venue in Hertfordshire, now before I get slicing and dicing, just thought ask for peoples thoughts on positioning, fonts, colour scheme, presentation etc. Now I know the actual content isnt 100% perfectly aligned within the boxes but it doesnt normally need to be when its all getting css'd into place. (bad practice i know but im not asking about my methods ;] ) Anyway just let me know what you think and what needs to be added/changed/removed Thanks, Carl

Hi, Was wondering if anyone has good tips or advise for T-shirt printing as I want to do this. I have tried in the past using a sencil and fabric spray and it went under then stencil. Is there another way?

Any ideas on best way to remove a background from an image in fireworks? Have triend pen tool and did not turn out that great unfortunately !

Guys, Having problems trying to get 2 images make into a background 1 blending into other and making same colour in Fireworks. Any ideas ?

Hey I'm a designer and i provide : Website xHTML/CSS coding Flash L0g0's Banner H3ader T-shirt design Wordpress Please visit my portfolio www.artisticarc.com Thanks Antonio Nick

Hi I want to get some T shirts printed to promote my website. The URl will be printed on the back. The URL is quite long, 16 characters, so I have two options Option 1 www.My16letterdomain.co.uk (1 line, in a medium sized font) Option 2 www. My16letterdomain .co.uk (3 lines in a much bigger font) Option 2 would obviously be easier to read. My site is a shopping directory for a particular city and I shall be wearing the shirt around town. Readability is therefore very important. Please can you let me have your views and votes Option 1 or Option 2 Many thanks !

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I need to display various graphs on my website and have designed them in PS (btw, there isn't a graph generator in ps is there?). The plan is to display a graph on the page that can be enlarged when clicked into lightbox. So I designed the graph at 864px x 504px then saved as a GIF as 40yrsboebr.gif - This image is the one that will be opened when clicked. I then went back and reduced the image size to 600px x 350px as a gif that would be displayed on the page. Have I done this in the right way? The smaller resized image doesn't look that crisp to me so should I have designed 2 graphs in different sizes to get the max sharpness for both images is is reducing the…

Hi everyone, I'm looking for a good printer for printing my business cards (I designed the artwork myself). Any suggestion would be welcome.

Hi experts, I am tyring my best to create a logo for my website, which looks really plain and ugly. But, I do not have photoshop etc so I use Microsfot publisher to come out witht the fonts and words. Thereafter, I used Paint which is free to cut out the desired size. But, it turned out the logo is quite jagged. Could some one advise me how to make it not jagged. Many thanks.

Hi guys! I'm in the starting process of coding a new website and I've already run into a problem. I have a background image which I've been working a bit on in Photoshop and now I've saved it and on my computer it looks fine. But as soon as I upload it it gets some strange lines through it. Especially noticable in the bottom of the picture. You can see it here: I've tried to save it with different variations of quality without any success. Hoping I can get some help. EDIT: Seems this problem only persists in Firefox 4 B1 so i guess that is the problem

How it works: The gimp user and photoshop user agree on a goal and they both complete it in their separate applications. Then they write a tutorial on how they did it and post it here. This should be handy for people on either side to get a handle on the other application if they ever need too. Right now its myself (Photoshop) versus Guezala (Gimp).

I've added a thick stroke to a layer using the blending option menus, and the edges of the stroke are very jagged? How could I fix this? Thanks.

Hi, I, like many others, have not got a genuine copy of Photoshop. Its such an incredible piece of kit, and would be much more useful if I had a genuine copy. Thinking, as I'm a student, of getting this: Adobe Standard Collection Just had a few questions.. 1)Is there any difference, in terms of the functionality of the product, compared to the normal versions (This is an educational version) 2)Is there anywhere this is cheaper, for genuine kit ? 3)If I buy it, and say.. have to re-format my computer, is the license transferable if I need to re-install again ect..

Mates i creatied a logo .... and I need help in choosing the font for the text .... is my att nice or in which I should change ??

It really can be frustrating as a graphic designer, everyone has an opinion and everybody thinks they are a graphic designer. It takes a lot of time and effort to develop a set of skills to be able to design and gauge an appropriate piece of visual communication, not everybody is capable of this however everybody has an opinion on the work you might create. I think one really valuable skill as a designer is managing clients and building a relationship to a point where they trust and respect your opinion. It would be really interesting to hear about some ways that people have managed this and of course to hear any horror stories people might have about this process.

Hi would Gibson sue if I used their EDIT: type face to spell a name in a logo for a company that sells guitars (yes they sell Gibson too but not official stockists) and the name is very similar as the owner's name is Gibson but he's calling his business something else but still similar.. GIB is in their. my guess is yes but the client really wants this style.

Hi All Could anyone help this novice with creating a font similar to BMW's style? I'm trying to get that nice fat font with a horizontal convex, metallic shiny is the key. Look forward to any advice. Thanks

Hi, Needed to make some animated images for a client. Have made them, but they develop a jagged border with a white outline when saved. No idea how to fix it. Any help would be great.

Hey all, We mostly design websites with companies who already have branding in place. However, we now have a client who has asked us to develop a new brand/logo for the company. They just want the price for the logo, with all otehr design costs to follow at a later date (i.e. business cards, letterheads) What are the typical costs for this? As I don't want to appear too cheap or too expensive too. Any advice is appreciated.

Anyone got some guides or tips for adding detail to silhouettes for use in logos, I've got to the black silhouette stage using illustrator but whats the easiest way to add the detail you see in many web logos..Is there a certain technique?

Hi, How do you recreate the effect shown on the twitter pages ? See below image for what I mean. I've seen the effect before, but I don't know what it's called. Horizon ? I don't want it to be faded out like that. Want it to be bolder. But it would make my current project much easier on the eyes if I could figure out what it is and how to do it. Cheers.

How do you get in touch with logo designers via logopond site ?

Hi all! We've just stepped into the business, hopeful to deliver a practical 3D solution to the web. Here's our achievement showoff link Please share your thoughts Cheers

Hi i decided to try illustrator cs5 and its so much better than fireworks. I have been watching tutorials on youtube and i really want to have a go at the perspective drawing but they use windows, clouds lamp posts and other stuff which i cant find. Do you have to download extra symbols and objects? Can anyone help please!! Charlotte

Hi everyone, I am looking for some inspiration and ideas for a new project im working on. My friend is opening up his own martial arts kickboxing classes and wants me to design him logos, leaflets and to come up with some sort of character to represent the club. The name of the club is going to be called Renegades Kickboxing. So what comes to mind when you all think of renegades? And any ideas on what sort of character i could create to match this title. I was thinking a hulk like character? What do you think? He is starting of doing kids kickboxing so nothing to violent. This is something simular i done for the kickboxing class im with …

Hey guys, so I'm a full time web designer, but recently due to needs at work, I have started to learn more about print design. Really impressed with Illustrator, it has got a really steep learning curve, at least for me it did. I couldn't quite understand why I wasn't using photoshop at first. Now it makes perfect sense.. Take a look at a few Marvel Characters (and DC ) I have sketched and illustrated. Let me know what you think. http://www.hilldesigns.co.uk/illustrations/ Thanks, Lewis.

Helox, my name is so important you should delete your own name from your memory in order to make room for mine! Today we will look at the Gimp! It's an open-source GNU program. (Yap, 'tis free) It's also... Rather powerful. If you want to see -exactly- what I mean google this phrase 'Gimp Gallery', you will be impressed with what this program can do. It's a little tricky, but so is photoshop, and considering the difference in expenditure... I am rather satisfied with my beautiful graphics program. Granted, it does lack a few things. It is image editing software so it lacks free-hand drawing functions like: Straight lines, boxes circles. There are ways to get arou…

Hi everyone I have this weird problem for no apparent reason all my fonts appear to be pixalated this isn't the usual noob stuff, there is no way it was like this not long back what can cause this? i have uploaded an example please help me!!!

There's been numerous accusations on this forum of 'stealing' work since I've joined. Most of which have been defended and accepted as mistake since we're all nice people here (say it with me). In about 5 minutes of browsing latest discussions here, I came across two sites both of which had a logo which I recognised as another, much larger, brand/company logo. I'm not talking about, 'that's quite similar' - I mean it's the actual logo with different text. I'm interested as to how far you can go with a logo before it's classed as an infringement of copyright material. Is there even a risk of this? Is it just going to damage your own image since people will notice this…

Hey there, Can anyone suggest an icon that would be suitable for the following: - Draws attention to a task that needs to be completed - Is not as strong as a warning or an error - Is suitable as an opposite for a tick when the task has been completed So far we have considered a plain exclamation mark but it isn't bold and doesn't look suited to the placement. We have also considered using an arrow, but would like peoples opinions. I've attached an image showing the different between the two states. The top is the initial state the requires the users attention, and once complete the blue state with the green tick will be shown (the contrast of the green t…

Here is a good tip for remembering colours when you’re designing a website for a client or for yourself. Trying to remember colours can be a bit daunting at times so I devised a way of remembering the colours you want to use when designing a website. I got the idea from a magazine actually… not literally, if you look at any magazine there is always a colour swatch somewhere at the back of the magazine down the side of the page. Well I was thinking of using the same technique when designing a web template in Photoshop. Create a Grope and call it Palette, then create a series of layouts. Name the layouts as the colours you’re using for the design, for example… #5381ac. …

I'm a newbie to illustrator, can anyone offer some advice, this is probably a dumb ass one... When I'm trying to scale down and image by grabbing its bounding box and reducing the size it disappears completely and I have no idea how to make it visible again ??? Help!

Any advice on creating a quality e-book? Do I need to buy a good compiler software, if so any suggestions? Regards

Hay guys first draft, tell me what you think. I am probably not going with this now as I am starting to think the dark background isn't for me. perhaps light and crisp like slightly on cartridge paper with a creamy hue and use sepia tones for the tree (leonardo-esque)<= is this a word? You decide! Then that would go against the night tree idea? The typography is definitely being changed and 'Designs' is being switched with 'Development'. Please, please, please some good honest constructive criticism! Cheers.

Can anyone help me, just been doing a little self study with Fireworks and I've created a simple rollover on an image (on mouse over a second image displays) I've saved it and exported it to a resource folder. I can't seem to find a way to display it correctly in dreamweaver after importing it also I'd like to send it out in an email (it's a party invite) again I don't know how to display it in it's rollover form?

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Really need some good example please to show my client! Thanks, Iryna

Hi, In the process of a personal project at the moment, and am now working on the front-end. Just wanted to see what people thought ? It's supposed to be simple, and straight forward. The words: type, enter, relax -> Will each have an image-over popup which will in turn explain how to use the site.. even thought for many it would be self explanatory. This is only the top part of the page. Will be a bit more at the bottom, showing the most recent "emotional releases", and the copyright statement. This will be both vertically and horizontally centered in the browser. Thoughts ?

Hi again! Here's some early logo concepts i've been designing for a local office company. The colour scheme has to include purple but other than that there is no other brief as to how it should look. Your thoughts and suggestions would be appreciated. Cheers guys

OK i am in the process of designing a new bingo logo. the bried is to design a logo that is not cartoony, but fun, kinda hard to do a corporate fun logo but here is my attempts. what ya think? have a few more. i will keep adding them if i do anything thats worth showing

I have an animated gif that is made up of 26 frames - is it poss to make different frames link to diff urls? Thanks