Graphic Design Forum

Practice what you preach is something I've been abusing lately and it's only been recently that I've picked up the sketchbook and been doodling more. It's so easy to jump straight in, what with all the software and plugins out there, but it's a schoolboy error not to prep. What I wanted to ask, out of curiosity and to start a little discussion is what method do you (usually) apply for designing a site? Do you sketch it out on a pad, napkin etc, go straight to your graphic program such as PS or go head first and decide in the browser? Of course there is a mixture of designers and developers on here so I appreciate graphic design is not everyone's cup o' tea but per…

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The complete Glyphish set is currently at $75! This includes all the icons from Glyphish 3, 4, 5 and 6, all in two sizes for full retina support, plus some beautiful app backgrounds and colour illustrators only available in this complete set. So in total saving 25% (compared to if you was to purchase each set individually). http://www.glyphish.com *I am in no way affiliated with them. I just thought I should share it! The quality of the icons are amazing.

Looking for a simple to use, free utility so that I can annotate images with lines, curves, circles or text comments to highlight certain features. Don't need a heavyweight comprehensive graphics editor - just to do that. Should work with jpegs or bmps, and can delete anything added to correct mistakes.

Hi guys! Here I am with a new work. This time, I have to make a logo for a shop of female lingerie called "Mistress". I still have to add details and text, but I'd like to receive comments on the basic shape before I go on. Basically, I wanted to create a kind of serif "m". Bye!

I have started up a page on facebook with some of the stuff i have done so far, and would be grateful for some opinions on my work so far. Im only early on in my career so any feedback would be greatly appreciated. www.facebook.com/1303design regards russ130380

Hi everyone, Just wondering what do you reckon of my logo design? its for my freelance website. Thanks

finally found the logo that is well nice I think what do you think?(the logo is currently my profile image)

I've been pottering away on Deign Crowd for the last couple of days (their UI is abit dodgy), what I really wanted to ask is if anyone had any first hand knowledge of designing for clients on there. Any horror stories etc.. Thanks.

Greetings to the Web Designer Forum! I'm currently a student trying to learn web designing~ long story short, I started school as an illustration major and ended up switching to graphic design to become a ui/ux designer. I just recently started learning the ropes to web designing and wanted to hopefully get a critique on a mock mini-site assignment that i've been working on these past weeks. research: wireframe: mock up (so far): So i guess my question is - am i on the right track here? what is this missing/lacking? and what can i do to improve it or improve the way im working/seeing/thinking about web designing? my goal is to eventually get into ui/ux design a…

Hi everyone I developed a plugin for Photoshop, the plugin is a multilayer exporter for Photoshop. you select multiple layers or a group you want to export, and it will save it for you in a folder under the file name ** layer names will become the file name link to be Export Pro plugin http://sugarvds.com/ExportPro/ Q&A why the registration? basically this exporter is a beta, and I'm still developing it If you didn't register how would you know there is a new version and it's also a way for us to keep in touch from time to time which version of Photoshop it works on? CS5's on windows and mac(les tested) Will it ever…

Right: it's been yonks since I wrote and article and feeling a little inclined to write about responsive/adaptive images as it's a "sensitive" subject. That big ol' can of worms. I'm not writing an article here though, just would like to get some response (look out for the puns) on others' methods. At the moment I'm attempting to edit a super simple page where when you change from mobile up, the image changes based on the breakpoint. My current train of thought is doing it in CSS as backgrounds - lowers requests and easy to implement. The biggest issue doing this is being able to configure the actual image. I can use background-size: contain and that's all fine and da…

I spent about 3 to 4 hours using Paint brushes, ink bucket, inkscape etc to make the blotches away. After like touching and retouches those unsighlty blotches when I open up my logo, it comes back to square one. I would like to seek advice how to make them go away for good. Any free tool online or downable would be the best. Hope to hear from anyone out there. Thanks!

Hail to everyone! Me and my friend are up to make a website and one of us is gonna take the graphic and multimedia part,we are at the beginning of this long road and currently learning the basics. one of our goals is to make an animated image likehttp://www.blizzard.com(the hearthstone image which has beams of light or the flame effects on diablo Image) but we don't know anything about it. from the beginning part that seems to be a drawing then painting and the final part is using adobe flash to make the image alive, i mean make the affected image like the mentioned sample, and now the question is how make these wonderful effects on images and make them affected…

Hi I have the task of re-designing the basic logo from this site 21 Entertainment. The client wishes it to remain simple, same colours but wants to add the word entertainment in there somewhere. Also the new logo will be started from scratch as the one currently used is quit pixelated. Looking for some inspiration as to what others would do with this. Thanks for all your help.

I am creating a site and need a map graphics of Europe. I need just the layouts of countries in black and white and nothing else. It may not be possible to find it online, but how can I make such a map myself?

Hey, Anyone who's interested and seriously good at creating illustrations, some examples of the standard i require: http://dribbble.com/...s&tag=landscape http://dribbble.com/...s&tag=landscape http://dribbble.com/...ches&tag=bridge http://dribbble.com/...ches&tag=bridge Please PM if you're interested. Cheers.

Hi there, I've hit a bit of a brick wall with my web design learning curve. Seems like every site needs a good logo, and I'm really confused about how to produce them. I've got photoshop, and know the basics of how to use it, but it seems the resolution of the text it produces is just too low to look good on the web. For example I want to make a logo/banner/what's it actually called? like this: What I need to know, is how would a pro go about producing something like this? I'm aware of the distinction between vector and raster graphics, and I can produce svgs using Inkscape. I want to avoid this solution though, because i use wordpress, and the svg suppo…

Hi guys, I have Adobe Creative Suite and I did Graphic Design in college many years ago now (about ten). Very different now with, so I was just watching a tutorial on After Effects (never used it before), and it looks really cool. But I just thought, what's the point in me learning this, when websites now need to be responsive? I don't want to upgrade to the new CC Adobe pack as I think the idea of renting your software is ridiculous. Sorry guys, one more thing, just out of interest, what software do they use (on mac preferably) to create 3d graphics? When I say 3d I mean actual 3d coming out at you on the tv. Not Blender (maybe Blender does it?).

Hey, bit of an odd one this. So I have a bicycle wheel that is 622mm in height (from edge of Rim to other edge) I am cutting out a circle with vinyl to stick round the wheel to change its colour. So, I go into AI and create a circle that Is 622mm. I then give it no fill but have an inside stroke to match the width of my wheels edge. I then expand the shape, half it, then half it again to get a quarter. This then is die cut out using my vinyl cutter. The issue is, when sticking them round the edge of the wheel I am left with about a 2inch gap. Surely it should fit perfectly with 4 strips? Can you see any reason why this doesn't work?

Hello! I'm a new web designer and working on a logo for my first client. I've chosen PT Sans a nice (in my opinion), free font for his logo but my client is concerned that the 'a' appears lower than the other letters in his company name. Sure enough, the bowl of the 'a' dips slightly below the baseline (as does the 's' and others). I'm preparing alternatives but many sans-serifs share this feature. Are there any font experts out there who can explain this aspect of font design so I can relay it to this and future clients? Thanks so much! Sincerely, Stephen

I've been getting well into this lately and am looking for anyone else to trade tip and resources with

Can anyone give a personal recommendation of a stock images site they've had a good experience with? Never use them but need something royalty free (ideally free or cheap as it's low budget) and with a reasonable selection. It's a one off so not looking to sign up for anything long term. Outside of Stock Xchng, Wikipedia and manually going through Google Images, like I'm doing now, I'd like to know if anyone can recommend a site that I may have missed/not known about. If it has any relevance, the images I require are mostly scenic such as coastlines, sunsets, etc... Thanks in advance. ** Just to note that I intend to go take the photos myself over the weekend …

Just want to find out if there are any decent website/company rebrands you guys have found online? Just a list would help

Hi I am creating a 4ft by 4ft board for a company, I am confused on how to set up the canvas for this as its ending up roughly 14000 x 14000 pixels with 300dpi. This seems like too big of a canvas to work with and seems extremely laggy and feels like forever before I'll finish the project. Is there a simplier way to do this for example working in half the width/height? If someone could give me some advice that would be great. Willows

I have a very sorry looking page (but only started a month ago) and among a million other things I would like my logo to go on top, into the corner of an image. How is that done? With layers? Help... qim

Yes, another one of those topics asking for logo feedback! This is what I am currently using on my website: I'm not sure if I'm right, but it feels a little sharp. I would like something that seems 'friendlier'. This is what I've come up with. What do you think? Any feedback is appreciated! Is this new logo better or worse than the original?

hello what is the best way to learn how to use illustrator & Photoshop I can use them but I want to be able to make epic stuff like you see on logopond :Dhaha

Hi Not sure of the correct terminology to use but here goes. What i am trying to achieve is have one image of a set of curtains at a window which i will call the base image for now, then apply different colours to the curtains only on the base image but keep the fabric folds and tie backs showing, this way i will have multiple images of the same room scene with different colour curtains. I have a web site selling curtains so rather than take a separate image of every colour of curtains i sell i would rather use the colour swatches i have then add to the base image. I have tried to do this but i loose the fold and tie back detail plus the end image looks fa…

I recently decided to narrow my focus as regards to graphic design. I realized that I wasn't making any real headway being an all round logo designer as there are so many different directions to go in. So I decided to focus specifically on calligraphy and custom lettering. I also like to create mascots and vector illustrations too which I'm already fairly accustomed to already but I'm trying to decide if I want to make the custom lettering a separate brand from my vector illustration. The downside is that I'd have to make a separate website, twitter, facebook, youtube etc. but I like the idea of having a brand that's purely dedicated to custom lettering and calligraphy …

Morning everyone, I'm currently designing a logo for a Cleaning company - the only thing they've requested is that it is placed on a yellow background. I was hoping for some feedback about this logo, what do you all think? Thanks :-) logo 1 shine.pdf

Hello, I am looking to work with a freelance Graphic Designer that is experienced with designing websites (Wordpress & Opencart), as well as logo design. I am a freelance website developer and i am looking to expand the range of services i can offer to my clients. I can and do currently design the sites i develop myself, but it's not my strong point, and i can't do logo design or other types of graphic work, so i'm looking to outsource these jobs to someone. Ideally i am looking for a longer term working relationship so i can keep the quality of the work consistent. We can work things out on a job by job basis. I am preferably looking for someone in the UK…

Can anyone recommend sites where I can get inspiration for my new logo for my web design work, I am a coder more than anything but need a logo

just wondering can someone kind enough please give me a quick tutorial on how i could maybe make similar to that ones i have attached? i know most basics in photoshop, but im struggling to make similar to those attached, i need to make these pretty quickly for my website, and id appreciate if someone can show me how to do it. Thanks.

Hello. Im in need of some IT/computer brushes for photoshop. They need to be free and enable me to use them on my blog site which will be used to promote products, Any websites worth checking out? Thanks

Hey everyone i came across such an annoying problem in photoshop today, never have before, i have no idea how it came about or how to fix it. I took an image put a rectangular box over it, then created text and put that on top of the box, with about one or two lines of text. I kept the exact same font type, colours everything as the bit that says scott cherrie personal training, however the text is blurred and the blue looks not nearly as sharp, i dropped the opacity about 15% but that is not what is causing it. The website is http://www.cherrietestingwebsite.org/ as you will notice the text on the image in the bottom right is blurred. I tried resetting the settings t…

I'm wondering which splash screen will look better for an app for color scheme design. Also I haven't decided about the name. The program is Polish but in near future it may be targeted worldwide. Which one is more user-friendly in your opinion? Many thanks for your help

Hi Everyone, I did Computer Science degree and graduated in 1995 and have programming skills. I believe that I can be creative and passion about art and design. it is part of my hobby. I am new to graphic design area (digital art) with some experience in web design i need some advice or comment on my brand that already designed but still need some advice design. I design my Logo with initial AK & webtek word for my web design/logo website ( AKwebtek . co .uk it is purely designed with HTML and CSS site and still need to work on it as I don't like the color theme yet. Also going to develop it for wordpress as a learning curve for web development and php language to …

Hi fellow web designers! I recently started up a new project where I have been working on for a while. Now that it is finally online I represent you Creahaven.net. It's an inspiration site with (mostly) daily new great designs where you can save links and email them to yourself or someone else. You can check it out on www.creahaven.net Thanks!

i am looking for a tutorial for the below img i cant seem to find any. if anyone can help will be great.

Greetings I was going to put this in a profile feed but feel we could benefit on some input on this. Well, I hope others feel the same way at least So, designing for yourself can be a drag but one of the benefits is the experimentation of it all. I'm thinking of implementing svg files throughout my site. In terms of file size they are a little higher than a .png, but if you use GZIP, you can reduce by 30%. Apparently. Also, they scale well so no need for fiddling for retina. Despite support across the board, Internet Explorer 9 and below don't support SVG. Not the end of the world as I can add a fallback and it works too. However, I'm wondering if it's worth…

I need a business card re-sizing and made ready for print. Artwork should measure 92 x 60mm (Both files) & Text should be kept 6mm from the edges (Both files). All I need is it done to the correct measurement, but I need everything else to stay the same i.e. Colours, Font, Writing, Alignment etc. And I need the .ai and .esp to be no lower than 300dpi. I need this done very urgently. I am prepared to pay a small fee for someone to help me. Can anyone help me? (Sorry if I got the wrong thread, wasn't sure where to post)

I get the feeling there's a certain snobbery towards Fireworks when it comes to Photoshop. Apart from complex effects etc, I don't see anything a Photoshop user can't do, and may I say, much quicker, Fireworks is a fantastic program for churning out layouts/templates/wire-framing and I personally speaking, much prefer it to Photoshop for this reason. Now don't get me wrong I wouldn't be doing any major design art-working with Fireworks, but for websites, i think it rocks... I've been exploring effects and things, and if you know what you're doing can achieve very good results that would probably be on par with photoshop (For the web). What's other peoples thoughts on …

Sorry, but can someone recognise this font, the handwritten one? It looks very familiar, like a system font, but I can't find it within my fonts (the trouble when you have 2000+ fonts lol) Thank you very much Edit: Found a font that looks very very close, but still, if someone knows the original would be very helpful.

Hi i made it basic but effective is the font unprofessional for a xpert online application or would that bring a sort of friendly feel from it instead of the original strict looking logos for this topic.

Just moving into the realms of web design, after mastering SEO. Engrossed in an online web design course with e-Careers but want to find how to make quick, easy button sounds? Any ideas? Just love the button sound in Mass Effect 3 (homepage >start) but can't get the file from the net or anything similar! Which file is most browser friendly? MP3/4 WAv etc? Any ideas guys?

Hi all! I have recently tried to make my site look better and It seems nicer looking but the background jpg image I have used seems to load so slowly - not sure if its just my computer but I am a bit worried. any suggestions?

Illustrator and I aren't getting on at the moment. Each time I export some artwork to a pdf on the Adobe PDF/X1-a preset (as setup by the printer - it's always worked before) I get a couple of outlines appearing on the artwork that look like editable strokes. A few other people have experienced this as well from a quick search. Apparently the lines won't print out on a print setup, but they do with a home/office printer. I don't want to take the risk in sending it for print (besides, I want to sort it out as I have never had the issue before). I have flattened the transparencies and need to adhere to the X1-a preset and comply with older versions. ** I've still…

Hi folks, I have been developing websites for a fair few years now but I am never really that impressed with the quality of design and I really would love some help to becoming a better designer. I want to make great looking websites but need some good resources to teach me the real art of design and being creative. I would really appreciate any help in where is best to learn how to create cutting edge designs!

I:m wanting to create a highlightable image- that is a image where when the mouse hovers over certain sections they change colour. And I don't want to have to get involved with flash to do this. Does anyone know of any way it can be done? So far the best idea I can come up with is for another image to appear on top of the prior one when certain conditions are met. This however seems a rather primitive and clumsy work around. I'm sure this can be done properly somehow.