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I have created a pattern from 2 rectangles with different colors, selected both and moved them to swatches.
After applying this pattern to a desired object, I would like to scale the pattern smoothly so I can fine tune my work. How would I do that?
I know I can scale the pattern when creating it, but how can I do it a... |
I'm doing a logo design and these messy lines appears after using shape builder tool in Illustrator. See the image. It's the faded lines on the intersections between the P and the A. I have tried several things but cannot get rid of them. And they mess up the clean look.
Anyone able to help would be awesome. Thanks!
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I am trying to set a solid ( non 4 colour ) black in Photoshop. I am able to do this successfully; however if for instance I create a shape or a piece of text using my 100%K black all is well until I go back in to check the fill colour and then into the colour picker ... and without touching anything in there the colou... |
I've done about 6-8 hrs of sketches and colored illustrations for a client and believe it was time to introduce a contract before continuing any further illustration work. It's generally an uncomfortable thing to do (especially it's for a close friend) but we're both working on a professional project and deem appropria... |
I'm attempting to import an EPS file into GIMP, but it fails. I'm running v2.8.19, and I've installed Ghostscript 9.14 (I think that's the version).
I've also gone through setting up the System Variable and verified the path. I did notice there were 2 versions of the 64-bit GS file, one ending with "c" and the other no... |
I am looking for a simple way to resize the position of elements of a group of elements in one dimension, without resizing/distorting the individual elements.
I.e. I have a simple scatter graph (circles as points) and need to resize it in the y-domain. If i do the usual resizing, all circles will be resized in the y-do... |
I'm working on a piece in process black (or possibly PMS black 7) and silver (metallic PMS to be defined) and want to include a photograph as a duotone. I've read around about metallic inks not behaving like usual inks. What are some issues I should keep in mind when working with metallic inks in duotones? What are way... |
What font is used in '&' on the image below -
It'd be a great help to know, thanks for any help. :)
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I'm having a hard time trying to find the best way to produce an SVG that maintains it's quality through scaling. The actual size of the image is the medium one which is pixel-perfect in Illustrator. However, once I save it as an SVG, the right-most vertical line becomes blurred. What can I do to produce a better quali... |
I'm trying to animate a few images as simple gif. The images contain one human, a red balloon and a green background. The background seems to be dominating. The face is made of only a few colors, and looks pretty ugly.
WIs there a possibility to select certain areas of the image that should be more dominant when auto-g... |
I want to make an A4 saddle stitch booklet(A3 spreads). I am confused as to what paper size I would have to use. I would have to include crop marks and bleed and if I printed on A3 would I have to shrink the spread to include space for crop marks and bleed?
I guess I am just confused as to whether the crop marks and bl... |
Can I know how to change the manipulator from the current local status to global? Unable to do it via clicking right button and getting the local/global options (the option doesn't appear). Please help Thanks.
This is how the manipulator currently looks. I want to adjust it to global so that the green arrow points stra... |
In order to avoid to align more than 100 circles manually I'd like to automatically align them on a path which has the form of a character. Can I find predefined paths somewhere for those characters? Paths would be different for all sorts of fonts, so I'm looking for a well known one or a generic way to produce the pa... |
I'm designing a logo which is somehow related to Talent. What symbols or colors can (or are good to) represent Talent?
By talent, I mean a natural ability to do something well. I already have something like a bean in my mind and I saw star, medals and young boys/girls symbols. I just want to know other symbols.
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I’ve just made this logo for a client. I hit on the idea of making the dd of “saddle” a bicycle. But the client also liked the mock up of the saddle with call out sign (to the right of Swag).
Now the client wants to use both of these ideas and I’ve added them together to make a complete logo. I was just wondering wheth... |
I have designed a logo and a website for a company.
Because I took a little longer than usual (3 weeks), they are talking about hiring someone else.
I delivered the designs, (10 Logo Designs with at least 50 variations) and a website design. If they hire someone else, all my effort has gone to waste.
Should I still ask... |
I do a lot of scribbling with pen & paper and for the upcoming month I will exclusively work on a design for a project, where the color palette is already fixed. Thus it would be great to have colored pencils in almost, if not exactly the colors of that palette (the colors are given in hexadecimal).
My question is now,... |
I just came to realize this problem with chapter titles in my thesis.
I'm using small caps for them, but I also noticed that (because I'm use to it) I wrote them in titlecase, e.g.:
However, if I use a long chapter title, I'm not so sure if it looks ok...
Since I'm not a graphic designer, nor my aesthetics are very g... |
I'm new to Photoshop, and currently using Photoshop CC. I'm trying to do the following:
Draw an ellipse
Making the ellipse diagonal
How can I do that?
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In Adobe Photoshop CC, say that we have filled some shape with white, how can we fill the rest of the image with black? In other words, how can we make a binary image?
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In this question, a user asks how he can create a vector image that scales down smoothly.
Pixel hinting is the solution:
Anti aliasing treats every edge like a nail, smashing and smoothing
without restraint. Unless you give hints!
How it's done...
First, open the document containing the vector shape you’d want to... |
I have a workflow tree end users can build to:
Define conditions for execution
Perform action on condition met
Currently the UI looks like:
with blue being 'condition' and green being 'action' and root is orange.
Viso and other tools often represent the condition as a triangle, in order to represent the text correct... |
I have an image and i want to convert it to a pixel image where the pixels are definite in it! I want to it be like this:
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I'm learning how to use Photoshop's pen tool. Now that I have a path in my PSD, I'm having trouble dealing with my unrelated layers. For example, I select a layer on the layer palette, then when I try to resize that layer by hitting CTRL+T, the path gets selected as the thing I want to resize. How do I ignore that path... |
I am trying to understand various aspects of spot colours. If I am working in photoshop and I use say a pantone colour for a part of my artwork (in my CYMK file) ... lets suppose I've used it as the colour for a logo which is overlaid on top of a full colour image ... and then export this as a PDF and give to my printe... |
I have a background in my CYMK photoshop document which is mid to dark grey and is made up of C69 M60 Y56 K66 ( it came from rgb 36 36 36) ... I have calibrated my monitor but when I print this out it looks completely different to what I expect. There is light text overlaid and the background prints so much darker than... |
What is this effect called? Is it film-grain? It kind of looks like but the grains are bigger. Thanks a lot in advance.
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What is the font used in this ad?
ADD other symbols
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I'm currently sorting out a proposal for an in-house web app build, and design is a factor that I'm thinking through. I expect there's minimal budget for design, but I want it to look good, so some tips here might help me organise a good-looking app for cheap!
Now there's lots of advice out there for website design, bu... |
Here is a task: I have excel file with table (for example columns are Name, Number and Address) and dimloma template. How can I automate filling my template and save all done diplomas to different files? Which way is the best to do this?
I currently working in Corel Draw. Corel Draw have Print Merge, but it's working w... |
I want to create an image which I can use as a texture in OpenGL. The image is a jpg that comes in red.
In my OpenGL I want to be able to change the red color to any other color the user selects, for this i thought the best solution was just to discard the rgb channels from the original image and only use the alpha cha... |
Yes, I know that I shouldn't make links and text the same colour. But I am restricted by corporate guidelines. On the whole site, I am only allowed to use the company's shade of blue with a few variations in lightness, and shades of pure grey. I am also allowed the use of a very saturated orange as an "accent colour". ... |
I am trying to setup my Cannon mp280 printer to get an idea of how artwork will print at a commercial printer.
When I print a document I can set the quality to low/medium/high. I presume it's best to set this to high. I can use photo paper and set the paper type accordingly, so I would do this too. There's also a phot... |
I concerned that having certain type of personality, ie. certain type of design and showcased work would put off potential clients as they would think i am not the person they are looking for.
For example, Suppose I can make most of the other designs as web designer but I can also make web designs geared toward kids sp... |
Can somebody please help me in identifying the font used in the image. I had no luck with WhatTheFont. Notice that corners are a bit rounded. The letters serve on a large poster. Eventually I'd like to use that font on OS X so a good match with one of its available fonts would be best for my purposes.
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When you apply strikethrough or underline to text in Illustrator you can't define the color or weight of that line. Is there an easy way to do this? Maybe using an effect and saving that as a style?
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I got back a short run print job from a commercial digital printer recently. The background was designed as a block color, not a gradient or patter or anything, just all the one color; but when printed there were strange lines in it. The lines are very subtle but are definitely present, and quite obvious when you look ... |
I don't have an actual project, but I saw this photo today
And noticed that even thought the person is in front of a white background, their jacket still allows them to look relatively flat, and blended in, like a pile of wet leaves. If someone were half-looking at the photo, they may not even realize that's a person.... |
I'm creating a short promo video for a mobile app using After Effects. It's going to be used only on YouTube. I'm trying to show the actual layout of the app, but the menus are all along the left and top edges.
Do I need to worry about making all the content in the Title and Action Safe areas, if it's only going to be ... |
I asked a question here on GD after which I decided to read a book.
As a non-native English speaker, there are a lot of new terms for me to learn, and it seems that I might have used the wrong term image in my question Do we perceive images in text reading order. The term graphic, diagram or drawing would probably suit... |
I just want there to be even leading between lines in my text box, but the leading between the first two lines is always greater even when I change the leading from Auto to a fixed number. I have also revealed hidden characters and there are Paragraphs between all my lines, so it isn't like a soft return issue. Not sur... |
How can I change this monochrome map of Europe...
...into mosaic squares, with the pixels offset by a fixed width?
I asked this question but I couldn't find a suitable answer. I hope that you can help me with this.
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I am new in Game Development and I want to know what Softwares can help me to create Good animations for my 3rd Person Character.
Thanks in advance! :D
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When I draw human figures from reference, my drawing looks wrong but I can see what went wrong and (hopefully) correct it by looking at the reference.
However, when I draw human figures from imagination, my drawing just looks wrong, and I have no idea why.
What are some tips for successfully transitioning between "draw... |
I'm trying to export a PostScript file of a book design in InDesign with pages arranged for a saddle-stitched book using the Print Booklet feature. The problem i'm having is this:
Print Booklet shows a warning saying that the booklet doesn't fir the current paper size. The preview shows the landscape design rotated to... |
I am typesetting a book in a combination of PMN Caecilia (body text) and FF Clan (headings and other minor things).
In this book appears exactly one work in Greek: μαῖα. It appears in a footnote (which are set in Caecilia). Unfortunately, Caecilia—or at least the version of it that I have—does not support Greek, so I n... |
Why does this happen and how do I prevent it?
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It's oh-so-very close to Avenir, but is just a little different from the cuts I saw:
I also found it to be close to Benton Sans, but that doesn't quite hold up either (the 'k' shows it here, but the 'G' elsewhere that I'm excluding for the sake of discretion doesn't match either):
Any thoughts?
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I am trying to get a clean look yet not give up detail when displaying quite a bit of addresses.
Here is the current method using toggling:
But from a user looking at this, they can't tell which center or location
they are looking for. Thus it is quite hard to find the place they want.
I am open to any ways to display... |
I designed this "LUCENTICITY" logo 2 days ago. I swear it was my idea. I chose the design after many sketches.
Today I was browsing the old featured logos on LogoPond and was shocked to come across this similar "NOS" logo. (It was added July 14th, 2006.)
What should I do now? Change my design? My client has already f... |
I would like to improve my design skills. My main focus is web development and even though my coding skills need to be improved upon a lot, right now, design is where I feel like I lack the most.
I do have quite thorough knowledge of photoshop, I learned most of it during retouching my photos or when I occasionally cre... |
I have a darkish blue color #3c5c7c. I need a medium blue color to go with it.
I know there are tools like www.colllor.com that can show me shades/tints of a selected color. But what I want is to select another blue color that offers some contrast to #3c5c7c but also "looks" like the two colors go well together.
For ... |
On the left is how it is rendered in Chrome, and on the right is how it is rendered in Safari. The color in Safari is what I am trying to nail, as determined by Photoshop's eyedropper tool, so it's rather peculiar to see it render differently when displayed on Chrome.
Any help will be very much appreciated, thank you!
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I have a laser printer, and I wish to print onto plastic sheets for creating boxes to hold playing cards. How would one go about the printing process, or is it even possible? What plastic should I use?
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When I open illustrator and move it to my secondary monitor in Mavericks and try and open anything... for example a new document, it will appear in my laptop screen as opposed to my second monitor. Is there any way for me to make windows open in the screen that is actively running the program or do I just have to drag ... |
I'm using GIMP to do the editing in the png file I've shown below. On selecting one of the arrows and trying to paint it red, the colour just does not turn red. It stays grey. I'm just unable to make any changes to it.
I'm a newbie to using GIMP, so do let me know if it has something to do with the layers or channel... |
I have a bunch of SVG files that were created by MagicDraw. In these files, I have several font definitions, e.g.,
<text x="152" space="preserve" font-size="11" y="376.958"
clip-path="url(#clipPath2)" stroke="none">
MyClassName</text>
So it is clearly defined that the font size should be 11px. However, when I op... |
I have a few questions regarding trendy super-large photo headers. I've seen them called "hero" images, but just so we're clear, I'm talking about designs like this one:
A large photo is used as a background-image with background-size: cover. Text is overlaid. And this layout is responsive:
Implementing this desig... |
I have these product thumbnails / images on our website that I want to look better. I especially want to improve the situation with the white space at the top.
Ideally all products would have pictures that are "whitened" (e.g. the 2nd image below, the table) but we don't have the resources to do that for all pictures.
... |
Basically what I am looking for is a light version of this icon-font: http://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/resources/elegant-icon-font
Anyone know where I can find something like that? Freebie or not. :)
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I have a template (for multiple pages in a brochure) which includes a block of text (squarish, fixed dimensions per each page with a border), which describes a program. How do I deal with the variable length of text in the block?
My mind tells me that I should keep the leading the same between lines, but sometimes almo... |
I would like to know which font is this:
It's used in the World Cup 2014, in the England jersey. I have searched in http://www.whatfontis.com/ as well as in What The Font but couldn't find a match.
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I am trying to create a color theme to my website using adobe kuler. I am really new to that app and confusing how to create a theme there.
This is my main color - #53001e
Can any body tell me what are the other colors that might be match to this main color?
Thank You.
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Hi i just modified a text into paths and curved some paths, i attach an svg of my work.
Now i just would like to add stroke to the object so that i can make bold the text, but as you can see , trying adding some stroke, causes some paths to not get the same stroke.
Just try in inkscape to add stroke to this SVG and you... |
I have a client who wants to use a font on his bookcover called Frosty, which is quite irregular and has "snowflakes" scattered around the letters. I cannot find who has this licensed. It is not on MyFonts. Any suggestions about other places to look? I've googled myself silly.
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If I have 5 similar elements, say circles or text boxes in a row is there any way to quickly move the selection to the next item similar to being able to tab through browser windows? If not, is there a way to just 'tab' through all items on the artboard without using the mouse?
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Get your selection > Save to channel > Set channel as selection
How do you use things like pen, paintbrush, fill, exc. at this point?
When I go to use them they are in my edit history but I don't see it making changes to the picture.
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I am in InDesign and I want to align all the text vertically but am not sure how to do it, it wont let me space or tab because of the bullets.I just want to move the lines under the bulleted line and not affect the whole paragraph?
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So I'm just starting to learn Adobe InDesign. The tutorials tell me to prepare my images and convert them from RGB to CMYK for print..
Now, I like to do rapid development and I kinda don't like spending too much time in preparations, i even usually just copy+paste images from one program to another (fireworks mostly).
... |
I'm struggling to make this scene to show the textures in the viewport, it was imported from this COLLADA file, and it renders ok in mental ray.
Activating textures (key 6) in the view port won't work, I think it is because it has three UV sets, the first one (map1) show the PNG texture but has no UV geometry, while th... |
Hello, can anyone tell me why are the colors from picture disappeared? How can I bring them back? Thanks!
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I am not a professional designer (not a designer at all), but some time ago I found this image from the logotype bundle:
I would like a professional advice: is it a Photoshop? And, if yes, where can I find a tutorial or lesson on how to do something similar?
I do not actually ask for the place I can find the lesson, ... |
I'm one day into learning how to use Illustrator (though I've got some experience with paths in Photoshop, from 5 years back). I want to take a simple, rectangular path and put tabs on the sides so that each rectangle fits together kind of like puzzle pieces.
There must be a nice, easy way to do this but I can't fig... |
I have been trying to find out what font or typeface has a specific shaped letter A, and it has been bugging the hell out of me, maybe you can help.
I've only seen this in 2 places. One, on a really old book my uncle has on Israel, and the other in the logo for Vernon, New Jersey's Action Park... erm... accident park.... |
i was going to make a simple logo using Helvetica Neue font since i see it in my Mac fonts list (default fonts includes Helvetica Neue tho)
BUt i'm wondering, can i make an svg brand logo as well as use helvetica neue font on the brand website?
I will not host the font on server just wondering if buying the Mac the def... |
I made several styles of the same font family. How can I make one that translates it into a series of dots? (Resulting in a (round-)dot trace font)
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This image size is just 21.8 KB without lack of quality. Why is that? How is it done?
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How to change color of multiple text or vector objects at once in Adobe Photoshop?
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Experiencing some weird behaviour in Photoshop CS5 on a Mac (Mavericks). I've tried resetting all tools, restarting Photoshop and made sure the image is RGB mode (8-bit) but the color picker won't color-pick correctly from external images, websites, pdfs etc.
It works ok within the current document i.e. I can color pic... |
I'm planning to use the symbols from the Box Drawing group of characters to draw paths and mazes and such.
However, due to font substitution, even in monospace they may not be monospaced because they may have been subbed with a font of a different width.
This is mostly a problem when it comes to empty space. Normally I... |
I'm having an issue exporting some icons from sketch to .png files.
The layers is are 144 x 144 but when I try exporting them I get a 152 x 152 size .png file.
I have enabled the trim transparent pixels option but nothing is changed.
Thank you for your help
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https://www.behance.net/gallery/17399911/Dimense
I've been trying to find a way to create layouts like this for a while, and now that I have the time to try, I'm wondering if anyone knows how to do this? Where do I start in trying to create images like this, especially like the second image in the link provided.
I am ... |
I am completely new to designs and illustrator. I am designing a scientific poster, so I want to create a curved line on the left of the poster where the left of the line is filled with a background and the poster is to it's left.
I got a picture with the background I want and I created a "frame" which I want to use to... |
Inside GIMP, Colors -> Levels
Click on the "Pick gray point" eyedropper (the middle eyedropper) and then click on a pixel in the image.
Then go change to the Red/Green/Blue channels and you'll see that the gamma (middle triangle) is set to a float for each RGB channel.
What's the math behind this? Like if I know the RG... |
I am using Illustrator CC to create an 18in x 24in poster. I have a one inch white border around the image. When I export the file for the client to proof it, the border is gone and the image is cropped to the first place there is color. It is not exporting the entire artboard. Why is this happening?
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How is resolution connected to ppi and dpi units?
In the context of editing photos, resolution is a measurement of the output quality of an image. DPI and PPI because that is what you will be dealing with most often when printing photographs.
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I'm working as an UX designer for a startup studio that develop internet products and web services.
So, i started 3 months ago, my boss's strategy is to develop some experiments and then collect people's registration and feedback to see if they like them or not. If people are interested then we'll keep developing.
My ... |
Just to say, I'm not about to make a pitch on this site for work. I assume that is probably against the rules of the site and respect that.
I just wondered if anyone has good ideas though on where to go on the internet to find good graphic designers that specialise in interface design.
I will shortly be building a we... |
What is the most efficient way to add X amount of blank canvas to the top of a bunch of images? I'm sure there's a program capable of doing a batch process somewhere. But so far all I've found is batch programs that will resize all canvases to the same size; I don't want that, as in this case all images are different d... |
Cutting out a shape is rendering totally differently to a shape with shape above, even though the paths are identical. Any ideas why this may be happening?
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This is a question mainly about design packages such as Adobe Creative Suite -- Is there another "create suite" style package out there that rivals Adobe CS?
I know there are programs such as GIMP or Corel Draw that are good alternative to Photoshop/Illustrator, but are there any actual "whole" packages out there like ... |
I've used image trace to turn a .png file into a vector image but some of the colors in the sky background look kind of off. Is there a way that I can blend the shades of blue in the sky so that it doesn't look weird?
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I saved an image of an iPhone from Google and when I opened it in Photoshop, it had ruler marks set in place around the phone. I've never seen or even heard of such a thing before. I thought it was my doing at first but I re-opened the image again and the ruler marks were back.
How is it possible to embed ruler marks i... |
When I'm creating a document, I always split each section and each paragraph style in an individual text box. Mainly so I'm able to edit each item individually.
However, my question: Is it recommended to combine each into one text box spread over multiple pages, having both headers and body text in the same text box o... |
How do change the behaviour of a mask in Inkscape such that it either moves with the objects it is masking, or not.
It seems to switch between the two at random at the moment. Also, how can I select the mask itself?
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I have a large print job. The design is sized at 36" by 72" with 1" bleed. The printer is asking that I set the file at 10% scale. How do I do that???
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Imagine you have a panorama photo, stitched together from multiple pics, and it's already been merged into one JPEG. Each pic had a slightly different brightness/color/tone. So you can see obvious lines between the stitched images where the colors don't match.
Is there a way to correct this semi-automatically, in any ... |
The problem:
I downloaded a free font called Voyager from a Behance user and installed it to my computer. I used the font in Photoshop to create a .psd file and everything worked as expected.
The next day, problems arose when I tried to edit the .psd. The font shows up and PS does not give me any missing font errors. I... |
I'm trying to subtract two shapes in Sketch 3.0.3. One outer oval and one inner oval, with the inner one being a partially cut out oval shape (shown in green).
This is before:
And this is after subtracting the two shapes as selected in the sidebar:
The result I expect is for the green shape to be subtracted. Instead ... |
I'm trying to align my main object to the center of the artboard while retaining the spacing of the objects. Whats the best way to do this?
Basically I want the yellow box to be centered and the greenish star to keep its relationship to the box off to the right. I know I can center the parent object but I want the cen... |
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