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Paper image to vector image?
I have a paper image (image wrote on a piece of paper) which I need to edit as same as I can edit vector graphics. As I am not good with graphics, I do not know which steps to take to make it digital ...
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How do I make an artistic out of focus image in Photoshop?
How do I make an artistic out of focus image like the ones in the Playbook background or soft images. My goal is to make beautiful and or subtle backgrounds.
I'm trying to learn more design ...
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Create a 2 tone (or 2 colour) border on a style in Microsoft Office 2010
I am trying to create a two tone border to go under headings in MS office. The goal is to look like this one:
Notice how the Heading has an underline with two colours (of different sizes as well). ...
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Finding the correct colors for websites and other things? [closed]
I have terrible design abilities, and I can never find out what colors should be used with other colors.
How do web developers know which colors will look good together? For example, with the site: ...
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Recording drive constraint in Autodesk Inventor 2008 produces black screen
Recording a drive constraint does produce a valid video file (wmv or avi) of the correct duration, but it only shows a black screen. Since the file size is very small, this is probably a problem with ...
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Reverse QR Design [closed]
I am having a QR Code that contains my website URL (a 4 character DE Domain like 1233.de).
As I want my QR code to look special I researched about QR Code designing today.
I have seen a lot of ...
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An application to easily pick a color in Mac OS X and get the hex value
I'm looking for a way to easily pick a color from anywhere on the screen in Mac OS X and get the value as a hex code (like #ACC782 ).
OS X has a built in system "color picker" and I found a ...
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Open computer cases: what about high frequency radiation? [closed]
Are people, especially kids, who work with unshielded electronics at risk from radiation?
As far as I know about computers, the metallic casing, including some Faraday effects/shielding is required ...
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Art Wall Layout Software
What would the best program be to use for laying out paintings on the 2d walls of an art gallery setting? I'd like to input the height x width of each painting as well as the height x width of the ...
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Good place to start learning Adobe Illustrator CS5 [closed]
The question may be off topic for SU, but I couldn't find any better place than this.
I've been into designing for a while now, and have learned Photoshop by myself, and currently having fairly good ...
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How do I relate these access tables without losing data?
I have an excel flat file with about ~6k records I want to put into a MS Access database. The original Excel fields are:
Name
Address
City
State
Zip
DOB
CaseNumber
DateSentenced
AmountDue
I saved ...
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Can I restrict users from design view in Access 2003?
can I prevent users from opening an access 2003 database in design view?
I don't want others to be able to change structure of the tables, just add change or delete the records within the table.
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Is this considered a texture? and how was it added?
How were the blue stripes created in the image below? Was this a photoshop-like texture?
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Method/program for creating a graphical email signature
I would like to create a kind of business card for my email signature in Mac OS X, with a nice graphical design. I tried to find software for this but it seems most people use photoshop, etc, which is ...
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Photoshop 3D and Vanishing Point filter: can they work together?
I've stumbled upon Vanishing Point filter completely accidentally. It's a great tool and I logically assumed that it should work with 3D extension of Photoshop, like for example help to align 3D ...
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what is network design, hardware changes new network topology for system? [closed]
In my organisation three LAN are connected to backbone network that is running 1000Base-T gigabit ethernet and using dedicated computers running window server 2003 as routers.
in addition to ...
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How do I edit text as one of the layers, using GIMP
I have a PSD and I want to edit text which is one of the "layers". Can I edit the text or do I have to create a new layer and delete the existing one.
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Software to easily design electrics / electronics circuits
Does anyone know a software to easily design electronic / electrics circuits (for resistors, capacitors, inductors, sources, transistors, ...) which already has a large and easy-to-use "library" of ...
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Software for creating sitemaps or showing relations between websites
I need a software to present the structure of a website, for example the hierarchical relation between pages and what content they offer.
The purpose of this is to generate a scheme of a website for ...
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How do I change an existing UI to mock it up with different font/colors? [closed]
Oftentimes, when users propose a UI change (in the meta sites, for example, but not limited to) they often create a mockup using a screenshot of the existing UI with elements modified.
I have seen ...
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Can I get a diagramming tool with a transparent background, for Windows?
I would like to be able to a diagramming tool's main window over another application's window, so that I can trace areas from the base window with drawing elements on the overlaid window. I can take a ...
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How can I create an image like this? [closed]
How can I create an image like the one below, perhaps using PhotoShop or GIMP?
Where can I get some tutorials, what's the name of the font, and what style is it?
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What software can I use to easily model a dentists office, or any office for that matter? [closed]
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What program should I use for easy, no nonsense 3D modelling?
My wife is a dentist, and for homework for one of her classes, she needs to mock a dentists office. ...
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Which software is best for designing buildings / architecture? [closed]
I'm looking for some software that can help with 3D design of building interiors and exteriors so that:
People can give me their house or building plan and I can make the 3D model
If people don't ...
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Free alternative to Catia, SolidWorks
I wonder if there are free alternatives to programs like Catia or SolidWorks, and what would you recommend to me?
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Software to design e-mails
I'm looking for a efficient software able to help with html e-mail design. A real webdesign tool like Dreamweaver seems a bit overkill, and one main problem is the difference in html engines between ...
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Is there a desktop application for managing vector/image files and other graphics?
I have a huge and growing graphics file collection, which I store in the folders. I wonder if there is a special tool for designers to tag and search these images. Editing is not necessary.. For ...
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Simple Computer Aided Design
I need to create a design mockup something very similar to this:
However, I don't have weeks to learn AutoCAD or 3dsmax or Sketchup (time consuming). Is there any easier solution? I've heard that ...
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Anyone know of a “live” markup/comments/revision FireFox/Chrome extension?
When I'm asked to do revisions on a Website, I usually have the non-technical editor print out pages in question with comments/revisions written in ink, but this obviously has it's drawbacks.
I was ...
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is there a tool that will let me take 'functional screenshots'?
It's one thing to grab screenshots of web sites and return to them for design and interface ideas and inspiration.
But increasingly I've found that when I want to examine something that previously ...
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Any home design software similar to The Sims 3?
I tried Sketchup to sketch a home design but I find the controls a bit frustrating. I can sketch 10 times faster in The Sims 3, plus it is nicer to look at. Though the metric system may not be 1:1 ...
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Software for fashion/apparel design?
Got a cousin who's interested in fashion designing and I would like to help her digitize her efforts.
Currently, she uses Corel Painter to sketch out her creations, but there have to be more accurate ...
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Program to make image buttons?
Which program is used to make the kind of button you see on the screeenshot of a website below
(the one with the little icon on the left and profile/email on the right):
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tools to design and arrange pictures
I have 10 pictures and I want them to be all in one canvas designed. What tool do you recommend me to have these pictures scattered in the canvas looks nice?
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Achieve this glowing look
I am trying to recreate a transparent png image so that I can place my featured item in this glowing space
What is the technique used here to accomplish the smooth glowing white effect in Photoshop?
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Cabinet And Home Layour Design Software
What Is the Best And Professional Cabinet And Home Design Software?
Please Help Me To Choose a Software.
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Building Hardware Appliances with Intel Atom Atom CE4100 SoCs
Today I saw the D-Link Boxee Box
I read that it uses an Intel Atom CE4100 SOC (System on a chip).
I did a lot of searching and found tons of PDFs and technical specs from Intel about the SOC itself, ...
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how to remove watermark from worksheet?
dear all..
i'm using nevron diagram designer. the watermark's text of nevron product is disturbing me.
how to remove that?
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How can I customize the design of an XP or Win 7 Explorer window?
I'm trying to recreate what lots of Mac apps have in their installer dmgs - a custom designed finder window that you see when you open the image.
Does anyone know how this is done, and whether or not ...
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Handling 100 different interrupts [closed]
Consider that there are 1000 plus ways of interrupts occuring from various sensors. How can the software & hardware be designed to handle it efficiently ? Which processor can be used ? Is it ...
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Software to draw IT-infrastructure
I have to design and present the ICT-infrastructure for a startup. Does anybody know a good piece of software for making a good looking layout of the ICT-infrastructure?
Until now I have been doing ...
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Best software for creating icons?
I'm a developer but not a very good designer. I'm looking for some lightweight software for creating icons for my applications.
I have a logo of the product and want to make it an icon, so any ...
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Two different slide designs in a single PowerPoint presentation
Is it even possible to do that? If so, what's the easiest way to achieve this?
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What's a good 3D modelling editor, other than Blender, that can be used within Unity 3D?
Unity 3D is an amazing tool for quickly creating good-looking, fun games. Unfortunately, its not intended to be used for actually designing your characters or complex levels.
Blender is the general ...
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Wide survey of different hardware adders, multiliers, dividers (design)
I want to learn, how computer hardware is organized in lowest level. I'm interested in VLSI (microprocessors) internal structure, schematics, algorithms of fast mathematic.
I search for good survey ...
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Adobe InDesign templates and design templates' cross-compatibility
Do Adobe InDesign templates only work in InDesign?
What are the options for design template formats, and what programs do they work in?
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Why are there so many pins on a sata power connector?
I was just looking at the power connector for a SATA optical drive, and noticed that it had fifteen pins!
I then marveled at the data connector next to it, which has a measly seven pins.
I know that ...
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What's the best way to display GPS Tracklogs on a website?
I recently got a GPS Tracklogger, so when I go on a weekend trip, I can stick it in my bag and record everywhere I go. That's great and all, but when I get back home and download the waypoints, I'm ...
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How to add a border to a shape in Adobe Photoshop CS2?
How do I add a border to a simple shape in Adobe Photoshop CS2? I'm creating a polygon that is white; I want it to have a black border.
