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the creative process in which an artist produces imagery to convey a message.

Graphic design in the creative process in which an artist, often using digital tools like Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, works with a client to develop imagery that conveys a message often to consumers in an attempt to educate them or encourage them to act.

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Fighting programmer colors

I have a couple of pet projects where I'm the sole designer/programmer and I spend too much time changing the user interface to make it easier to use by real users and avoiding bright yellow and green that is so common on "programmer" designs. Do…
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Where can I get lots of distinguishable colors for a chart?

I'm looking for a list of about thirty colors (RGB values) that are sufficently different so that when used in a bar chart the user can match each bar to that color in the legend. Does anyone have such a list of colors? Thanks, AJ
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iPhone graphic design advice for developers

I'm a developer who is making an app without a graphic designer for the first time. I am competent at making user interfaces that fits conventions and the Apple Human Interface Guidelines, but when it comes adding that extra layer of decoration to…
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Understanding colors

Kindly point towards theory/material to read for understanding colors and what makes a good color combinations. Mind it that I am not interested in say "Color combinations for web application" etc. More of the lines of say "Colors and…
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Artistic aspects of UI?

Consider a single button. At one extreme, we have a black OpenGL window, with: outline (in white) of a rectangle bitmap remdered font inside of it, saying "Ok" At the other extreme, we have Mac OS X, a button that is: well rounded has some…
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What's the best way to integrate Designers using Dreamweaver with Visual Studio C# developers?

I know about code-behind files, but what is the best real-world way of Designers that are using DreamWeaver or other Design Tools to work with Visual Studio programmers? For example, say you have a basic website with user interface forms hitting…
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How to create a union of two shapes in css and apply dropshadow to the final shape?

I am mainly a designer, but I am making a mock html document using some basic html and css to demonstrate the realizability of my design. Below is the custom shape i have designed on figma. Now, I am barely familiar with html or css, but by doing…
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Good book on learning how to create icons in Photoshop

I am a developer by trade and I don't pretend to have any reasonable graphic design skills. Neither do have I aspirations to acquire any. However, I would like to learn how to create icons for some hobby programs I develop. My problem is that even…
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How can I get two lines to plot as the same colour within a loop?

I want to produce a graph showing the error of a numerical function for various convergence methods/values on the same graph. I am using a while loop to increment through different values of convergence condition and plot the error on a graph, once…
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CSS - Height of

with 0 padding

Given the following HTML, what is total height of the

element? I would think that it would be 1em, but it does not appear to be so. The letters that drop below the baseline seem to sit on some kind of margin that extends below the font…

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Pure CSS implementation of Wired.com's hyperlink style

Wired's mobile view (set your user-agent to iOS Safari to see it on desktop) features an elegant twist to the standard underlined hyperlink style: I assumed this was achieved purely by CSS without external graphics, but no: background-image:…
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How can I adjust the scale-independent pixel (sp) settings in the emulator?

I want to be using sp instead of dp for text in my application, in order to allow the user (according to the documentation) to scale the text for accessibility reasons. I need to test my layouts against this, to make sure there aren't any visual…
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Android add traslucid overlayer to image

I'm begginer in android. I'm developing an app, and I want this effect: I think it is a background image, an overlay whit traslucid color, and a textView. My layout is this:
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How to get actual image size in GIMP

When I use GIMP to create an image of 3.5 inches by 2.0 inches ( business card ), the actual image it creates is smaller. Note that GIMP gives the option of creating a new image with dimensions in inches. I verify this by inserting the image into…
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Using Netbeans GUI designer

I'd like to ask you a simple question(maybe stupid one). Would you use Netbeans GUI designer for commercial application?Becase it's generating lots of code, maintenance of application based on designer could be tough(IMHO), there are also pieces of…
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