I have an icon in the form of a vector (belonging to one of the Glyphish sets) and I would like an icon a little larger than the sizes they provide by default.
This is what I am looking at in Photoshop at the moment:
That vector does not seem to be there though. I.e. I can see it, but I cannot fill it because when I deselect it, it seems to disappear (if you look in the layer view, you can see that nothing is actually visible).
So I wondered how I can fill it with a colour and export it as a PNG if possible? Many thanks.
From the screenshot this looks like a Path, not a Shape layer. When pasting to Photoshop, use Paste as "shape layer" instead of "Path" (on the "Paste" dialog box that opens when you try to paste a vector shape.
Or: if you open the PSD file and it is already like that, then go to the "Paths" panel and click the icon "Load path as selection", from where you can fill it with color as a normal pixel selection.
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Making a powerpoint that's supposed to show a before and after of a website. Since it's currently a long website I'd rather make a single long slide to put it on (20" instead of 7.5"). But all the other slides in the presentation should be normal-sized.
I found Slide Size (Design ribbon, Customize section) but that resizes ALL slides.
You can't. You can only have one slide size and one orientation per presentation.
Are you projecting the presentation or delivering it on a laptop?
If so, the size is sort of irrelevant.
Regardless of the slide size, the projected/displayed image will never be longer or wider than the projector/display accepts.
Although you cannot use different sized slides in one PowerPoint file, for the actual presentation you can link several different files together to create a presentation that has different slide sizes.
The process to do so is as follows:
Create the two Powerpoints (with your desired slide dimensions)
They need to be properly filled in to have linkable objects and selectable slides
Select an object in the main PowerPoint to act as the hyperlink
Go to "Insert -> Links -> Action"
Select either the "Mouse Click" or the "Mouse Over" tab
Select "Hyperlink to:" and in the drop down menu choose "other PowerPoint Presentation"
Select the slide that you want to link to.
Any slide that isn't empty should appear in the "Hyperlink to Slide" dialog box
Repeat the Process in the second Presentation to link back to your main presentation
Reference to Office Support Page where this solution was first posted.
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/can-i-use-portrait-and-landscape-slide-orientation-in-the-same-presentation-d8c21781-1fb6-4406-bcd6-25cfac37b5d6?ocmsassetID=HA010099556&CorrelationId=1ac4e97f-bfe6-47b1-bab6-5783e78d126d&ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US
True you can't have different sized slides. NOT true the size of you slide doesn't matter. It will size it to your resolution, but you can click on the magnifying icon(at least on PP 2013) and you can then scroll in all directions of your slide in original resolution.
if you want to shrink one slide for instance, add shapes to hide the unwanted background margins. you can set the shape color filling as the background (gray or black).
It's "ugly" but it works
true, this option is not available in any version of MS ppt.Now the solution is that You put your different sized slide in other file and put a hyperlink in first file.
I want to merge the color of one picture in other picture. As the picture below is showing. I paste a picture on circle. But there is a clear distinction between the two pictures. I want to get rid of it. Is it possible?
You have a couple options:
1: You could make a Clipping Mask, use the pen tool and trace the object, once you have drawn a line around what you what removed from the background select your outline and your image. goto top menu item Object > Clipping Mask > Make. This will clip your image and hide the background.
2: The image your are using my be tough for step one. Try re-exporting the image as a PNG or GIF with a transparent background then open it in illustrator. You will need to either "open" from within ai or "open with" ai. Copy/paste will not keep the transparency depending on the tools you are using.
My guess is step two will be your easiest solution because of the shadow elements. Good luck!
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3: Open the original image file and change the background hex value to match the final desired background. This solution is less valuable because you won't have the ability to edit or change your mind about the color while your working.
I'm new in Adobe Illustrator and I just need to extract one element from EPS-file.
So it's the light. And as you see in the attached file, I can't save it clean.
I mean, when it has a some background, it looks good.
But when I remove this background and trying to save the clean light as PNG image this is what happenes.
Here's the demonstration
How can I fix it?
It appears to me as if you need to select that image in illustrator then open your align pallet and select the option "align to artboard" then click the vertical align button then the horizontal align button. Then go ahead and try saving your file. It should take care of the problem.
I used to be able to color any Text, shape, or image by just selecting the particular layer and use pain bucket tool for example. Not sure what I clicked, but recently when I try to do the same; I always get the following message:
"This type Layer must be rasterized before proceeding. Its text will
no longer be editable. Rasterize the type? "
I do not want to rasterize. Can I know how to revert back to the normal setup where I can do the coloring without the need for rasterize please.
It also seems to mess around with my selection.
For example - I have a circle shape in the middle with transparent background.
I used to be able to go Select>All followed by Select>Inverse and it will select the circle shape.
But now it selects the entire canvas when I select all but returns the following error when I Select>Inverse
"Warning No Pixels were selected".
You may not be able to color a vector object with paint bucket tool. Instead, can you try using the color option in the blending mode. That will retain the vector property and also apply the color.
The following applies to PS-CS6
In the layers palette,
= Right click on the layer > Blending Options > Select Color Overlay
Wondering if someone could help me....
I have a small .NET application where I have an Edit button on a main form. When the user clicks the Edit button, I want to popup a small form right next to it (on top of the main form) with a speech balloon tail attached on the side of the form pointing to the Edit button. So it gives the effect of a floating form pushed out from the Edit button.
I don't want the appearance of a normal speech bubble, I want it to look like an actual borderless form (with square corners). It could be a custom control or anything (however, I am not yet familiar with creating my own custom controls), but I need to add Text Controls, Pictures, Label Controls, etc. to this floating form.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
UPDATE
I am trying to create something to this affect:
So imagine the ? being the Edit button and the other being a form with custom controls.
Like this?
To get this behavior:
Select an image which will represent your speech bubble. Put a PictureBox on the form, make it use this image. Place two labels, as above, adjust the font.
Pick your transparency key (color). Your image background and form background need to be set to that. I used black for demo purposes, which is a bad choice if you plan to have any black or text in your speech bubble. Set form's TransparencyKey property to this color in designer. More about TransparencyKey on MSDN.
(final step, not shown on the screenshot). Set FormBorderStyle = None.
Also make sure you have other ways to close your bubble, because X will be unavailable.
The final result may look something like the following:
Note: You may notice some drawing artifacts, most images on the internet have smooth borders, and transparency key does not support shades, has to be exact color. If you are fine with these minor artifacts, feel free to leave it at that. Or, edit it to get rough borders. Or find another one that better suits your needs.