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I need to explode/break apart a drop shadow filter into the shape it forms. I mean, I need to be able to have a shape (shape object, or another kind of object) that its generated when I apply a drop shadow.
If I break apart the object, the drop shadow disappears.
Is there a way to accomplish this?
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We all know you can "type on path" in Adobe's Illustrator like this:
Now, I would like to do the same in Maxon's Cinema 4D but after checking the documents and several search engines, I still haven't found the magic bullet to do that.
How can I "type on path" in Cinema4d like I can do in (eg) Illustrator?
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In the past, I've googled iPhone user interface elements and downloaded the PSD.
2. I deleted all layers except the frame
3. I took screenshots of my various web projects
4. Change dimensions and inserted various screenshots from other emulators or iPhone to show up in portfolio.
Maybe this is the "right way", although... |
A note upfront: The background does not have to "survive" the process. It's the type (and visible style/design) I'm after.
I have this situation:
Using Photoshop, what is the best technique to "undo" the drop shadows from a flattened image like this?
I'm guessing cutting out the individual letters and symbols with man... |
I want to create this final output of image as in this answer, so first I need to create horizontal lines. I am very new to photoshop and a bit aware of Gimp. As I see every answer is in photoshop. Even the first question I have asked was on gimp which already has an answer for photoshop( my first question on graphics ... |
Usually I use filters for this effect, but combined lighting made it look like crap. The example design below shows the top is without bevel, and the bottom is with. This is what I'm trying to do in Inkscape. Can anyone help guide me the right direction?
The closest result I can get is by using a border stroke with a l... |
I am finding various resources on what is more accepted to use a website design color scheme, complementary colors such as red/green or blue/orange or analogous colors such as green/yellow or blue/purple.
I could argue it just depends on the site and there is no global, use this color scheme always, but what I am looki... |
Ive been using some Photoshop actions (not developed by me) to add a 'grunge' effect to some text (a .png), it works well but theres several levels of grunge, so i tend to try a couple out to see which ones i like.
The problem is when i try one that i dont like i want to just hit undo and revert back to how the image w... |
I've created a design in Photoshop CS6, and used a large number of smarts object which made the workflow more easy (at least for me). Now I've finished working on the design, and I want to "unsmart" all the objects due to the large file size of the PSD. I do not want to do Rasterize Layer because I want to keep every l... |
I can't seem to find it, even though it's probably looking me dead in the face. I'm new to Illustrator so I'm still trying to figure out the ins and outs of it. I'm using CS5. Any and all help is appreciated!
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Are there are any web design forums where designers can submit their work to receive feedback and advice? I am looking for a place that I can seek advice on how to improve my designs.
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I want to create an image that looks like this:
How can I recreate this effects, or what terms should I use for finding better results?
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Here for example is link to a free infographics. When I open it in Gimp or Inkscape I get a flat image. Is that what should happen? How do you make a use of it?
I work on Ubuntu 12.04. Program I use: Gimp and Inkscape.
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So I'm trying to make graphics on a snowboard on illustrator and some of the artwork goes outside of the outline of the snowboard. I'm wondering if there is a way that I could cut off the excess lines besides using the direct selection tool.
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I've been doing a little research into improving my skill set and I thought it could make sense to take the test, becoming an Adobe Certified Expert.
For those unfamiliar, The Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) tests are multiple choice tests you need pass in order to display a certification badge, have certification certif... |
Could someone please tell me which fonts are used in 1st and 2nd row of below image?
Thanks!
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I've become very fascinated with the idea of digital destruction through a physical medium. There was PBS video on youtube How Does Glitchy Art Show Us Broken Is Beautiful?
Example Pieces:
Cultural Brazilian sound chair:
shows this idea with sound and how a sound of brazil influence the form.
Digital cabinet. Shows a... |
I have to rebuild a flattened file from scratch and have no information about the font and Photoshop style used. I have been able to recreate the Photoshop style, but I have a hard time identifying the used font.
Can you help me identify this serif font?
EDIT:
I forgot to note that I've already tried the usual font-i... |
I'm manually creating a sprite sheet using Photoshop and many of the graphic elements have drop shadows applied. Given that fact, it's tough at times to see where the drop shadows begin and end. I don't want to set my guides too close and cut off parts of the shadow. Anyone have any tips on how they go about handling t... |
Ok so this is difficult to put in words but I want to know how designers present their Graphics Design work in screenshots something like this (source: Dribbble):
Not about the iPhone but I'm talking about presenting the design as a photograph taken from side-view, I believe it is some sort of Photoshop thing but sinc... |
I am planning to major in Graphic Design, but I am unsure if it is the right choice for me.
I would like to know what skills I should know before starting to study it so I can get a head start.
One particular skill I am confused on is drawing. I have read online that drawing is a non-essential skill for graphic design... |
Of course I've seen Create and Edit Parallel Paths in Inkscape - Graphic Design Stack Exchange, but the "Stroke to Path" answer there doesn't cut it for me - because I want to draw "parallel lines" as "bus connections" in technical diagrams, like this poor fellow:
Inkscape-User - Parallel lines brush?
I would like to... |
This question is in regards to mobile site layouts but could just as easily apply to apps. I am not concerned with pitches, just true team reviews among UX, design, dev, and business partners.
I always prefer to review a full depth mockup as an image directly on the device where I can at least scroll around. Unfortunat... |
I will like to know if there is best practice regarding designing a website for a big corporation.
I am specifically talking about the width of the website. I have a believe that websites with full (width: 100%) width are most suited for business and corporate websites, while widths of lesser percentages with margin: 0... |
What is the easiest way to remove background from below image?
If you can show it with screenshots it would be great.
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I have been teaching myself Flash CS 5 and attempting to do some simple animations. I have created a simple bat drawing that I am attempting to animate. I read that it is a good idea to break sections of the object to be animated into different symbols and labels in order to lock when needed. As such I converted the w... |
How do people handle margins and gutters when designing a tri-fold brochure in InDesign? When a brochure is folded in three, the inside flap ends up being smaller than the other two flaps, so if I want things to align exactly, I can't just use the margins and columns panel and be done with it. You can see in this image... |
I have a problem with my Photoshop fill feature.
I created a selected area with a border of 2. Then I Edit → Fill... but it seems to bleed outside the lines with a faint colour. It's best I show the screen shot so see below:
This is my selected area:
This has a Select → Modify → Border... (1px)
Then i do Edit → Fill..... |
In the Appstore you can show screenshots of what the app looks like to the user so they know what to expect. I am looking into creating an image from scratch of a screenshot of an app.
Here's my question: From what I understand, apps measure width and height in "points" instead of "pixels". In GIMP I have the option o... |
For lack of a better name, I'm trying to create a decreasing stippling effect like this:
My first inclination was that this could be created in Photoshop with some sort of filter effect. I was thinking along the lines of creating a smart object, applying a filter effect, then using a gradient on the filter mask to dec... |
I have a Visiting Card in Illustrator and have to fit the pic of a person in a visiting card Frame.
I am clipping his pic in the frame but it says the Can't clipping because the front part of the clipping must be an object or text or combination of both.
Plz Help me out on this problem.
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I have an object with some perspective, to simulate a paper curl effect (blue sticker on image below).
How do I apply the same effect to text (i.e., how do I make the purple text look like it is part of the sticker)?
I guess I must find a way to curve my object on the z axis, but, I have no idea how to do that.
Here ... |
Can someone please help me identify the fonts used in these two receipts. I'm looking for downloadable free fonts that I can use to reproduce the same looking results.
The two receipts used different fonts.
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I've been painting a pixel character in a of 32x32, but after the work is almost done I noticed I needed a little more dots, Is there any way to edit the grid to something like 64x64?
If not, is there any way to copy the painted dots inside a bigger grid and paste in another rectangular grid?
Thank you.
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Colors are used to represent emotions; especially in advertising.
People have even come up with color-emotion charts like this one:
Yet, depending on the country, some colors have different meanings... in one country (eg USA) WHITE represents purity, cleanness, while it the other county (eg China) it's the color to re... |
I have created a new project with automatic text box (non facing pages) and have created a second master page that I would now like to apply to all even pages.
InDesign has this option when I right-click on a master page, but I can't seem to find it anywhere in QuarkXpress 9.1. Google hasn't been nice to me either.
Can... |
What is the difference between cyan and Pantone Cyan Special Color?
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I have tried a variety of different manipulations to achieve a old-style architectural render. Here is what I've tried, perhaps the workflow and quality can be improved.
Desaturated image
Adjusted levels and contrast for clear designation of lines
Filtered using artistic pencil sketch
Added sepia tone
my result was l... |
I would like to create a maze with gradients, but I don't know where to start. I can see that they are subtle gradients that shift, so I would like to start with some techniques that could help me shift my perspective beyond basic flat design:
As a beginner, my reasoning would be:
Create selected areas and put them ... |
What do you call wireframe-like projection images of technical objects?
Like the rocket images below:
This is not an actual wireframe because empty spaces are not filled with a grid; only notable features are displayed.
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I've previously screen printed over watercolors but would be interested in looking into digital printing onto paper thats been painted...
Is there any common process for doing this or is it just not done?
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I'd like to create something like this:
(see design peg)
Ideally, the text should be editable so that any letter combination can be used.
I know I can do it quickly (and keep the text editable) by just using Warp (Photoshop/Illustrator) or Envelope Distort (Illustrator), but it doesn't look as nice. The text is editab... |
I have some cool visuals to do with process of developing an end idea or product, but I was wondering how much process I should show in my portfolio.
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I'm working for a client that requires me to create website style guides from detailed photoshop mockups of the already designed website. These style guides are then passed on to the actual developers so that they can code and create the CSS based on the provided style guides.
Previously I've done all of this myself, s... |
I'm a programmer (not a designer) and I work with various designers in the marketing industry. A typical project will consist of a designer coming up with a design for a web page and then handing the design off to me (PSD file or whatever) and I implement the design into a webpage (HTML, CSS, etc...).
The problem I run... |
I'm developing a template for my team's daily production needs, and every product must have certain consistent marginalia on it, such as date, product ID, title, subtitle, etc. Currently, this information is manually entered into an InDesign or Illustrator template, and the template is different depending on the produc... |
I make labels for my beer bottles in Inkscape. With each new batch of beer I need to change the label. When I am done I want to print 8 labels on each page.
Right now I export the SVG as PDF and use a small LaTeX document to place the 8 graphics on the page. It works, but is a little clunky.
Is there a better way for e... |
What is the name of this font and it's family ?
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I'm wondering what the general process is for packaging design?
I've got a few years of graphic/web design under my belt, but in discussing a re-brand, a client has requested that I also pitch new packaging designs. I'm sure the overall process can't differ much from what I'm accustomed to, but what are the keys to suc... |
I am trying to recreate the effect demonstrated on the logo for the Tate galleries in the UK with Photoshop.
Here are some of the logo variants:
Using quick masking I can emulate the gradient blur, but I haven't found a way to bloat the text in addition to the blurring. I'd like to know how to do this, specifically... |
Imagine a table with many rows in a web application. The first column contains only an icon, no text. When single-clicking the icon, it must represent selecting that row and takes you to a new page. What icon would you choose?
Update: In this particular case, it is selecting a program. Not a software program, but a gov... |
I'm trying to achieve something like this image in Photoshop CS6:
However I only need two large letters inside. The goal is to have the letters in a standard "squared" font (Arial Black) follow the contour of the sphere and split evenly at 90 degrees in the middle. I've tried liquify and spherize filters with no luck,... |
I'm making an icon for a speed reader app for the iPhone. These are more or less the designs I've been toying with:
Looking at them though, I just find they're a little boring. With the iOS 7 paradigm they seem to fit okay, but I just want them to be a little more exciting.
To illustrate what I mean, I really like th... |
I've asked this question before, but for Illustrator: How can I easily deselect a path after creating it in Illustrator?
I want to make hair strands, so I'm using the pen tool to make a path with two points. I am making hundred of these strands. I need to deselect the path after each strand. How do I do this? I don't w... |
Does anyone know how to change colors in letters to appropriately represent silhouette? A perfect example is the opening for the movie Superbad:
The 'U' is perfectly a U while having the right change of color to form the silhouette. I am trying to do a similar effect in Illustrator CS6, but no luck. I can create outli... |
I have so far used nothing but GIMP for photo touch-ups, logo designing, etc..etc.., Now I have seen that many use illustrator for logo designing, lightroom for photo editing so on...
Should I practice then on using other opensource alternatives(since I can't afford adobe suite) for different things? say Inkskape for e... |
I am working on this CMYK file and until today all colours could be selected and everything was working fine. Today I decide to give it a bright blue background, and select shade #0033ff.
I see a little warning sign near the 'new' colour in the colour picker window: it says out of gamut for printing, and offers me rand... |
I want to create some vector based buttons which resemble the button design shown below:
I can just take a button and treat it as a bitmap and change text and appearance, but the output doesn't look professional. If I have a vector of the same design, it can easily be re-sized and modified without loss in quality.
How... |
I'm doing a research for conceptual Logodesigns which should fit into a ecosystem.
I'm not sure if logosystems, ecosystems or logofamilies are the right terms.
I'm thinking about logosets like the Adobe Creative suite or the logofamily of the wikipedia foundation.
Do you know any other Logofamilies like these two examp... |
Is there a way to copy a layer from one file and paste it into multiple files using Actions? I already use actions to re-size the images, but I end up having to manually copy and paste the layer with our custom watermark.
I tried using the copy and paste in place to get the logo in correct position. Then I need to re-a... |
Image should be replaced without pasting image or grouping to the below as grouping remains the previous image.
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I need to send a image as the title says. But the amount of RGB choices confuse me... There's sRGB built-in, sRGB, adobe RGB, apple RGB... I thought of choosing "Best RGB", is it okay...?
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I have N images in foldes with the same dimensions (HxW).
Is there any software that can resize all images to the configured size (for example proportionally reduce size of the pic by X) and build a one image - grid of this images? Maybe only build a grid from images without resize?
For example - i have 20 images 900*3... |
I'm pretty much a graphics design noob, as you can tell by this very basic question. What I am trying to achieve is to create a set of Android icons from an SVG file that I have. In case you didn't know, in order to support the different device sizes, I am supposed to create an icon for MDPI, HDPI, and XHDPI screens.
M... |
I have never created animations, but I want to make one for my website's home page. Basically what I have is an image where each chakra of human body is shown with its name. I want to show how the energy level moves in the body, from lowest chakra to top most chakra, changing the colors of the energy as they level up t... |
I am trying to change the path of a two anchors. I have tried grouping the two anchors I do not want connecting together and goto Object>Path>Divide Objects Below, but nothing happens. I get the message, "The filter cannot complete because more than one object is selected." I only have the two anchors from the object... |
How can I edit the mask that is being applied to this layer?
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I'm trying to move my image without having my layer mask move with it. How do I move the image without moving the mask?
See the images below for a visual depiction.
Is it possible to move just the image?
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I created a RSVP card for a friend and in the AI file the color is NAVY Blue but when I save as a PDF and attach it on the email it is black. Does anyone know a solution?
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I am attempting to experiment with different colours for the grey, orange and pink areas of this image. They all appear with no separation on a single layer.
So far I've tried selecting and separating them on to their own layers, then adjusting the hue/saturation of those layers. This did not work, however, as I only... |
I'm having a rather annoying problem!
I have RGB images made in Photoshop that I need to convert to CMYK.
When I save the file my black background is converted to a light grey!
I tried deleting my background and adding a pure black background in my PSD file but even that comes out grey! There is no way to save black? T... |
I'm using Illustrator CC, and have a tear-drop shaped object which has a gradient mesh applied to it. I need to use the pathfinder divide tool in combination with another simple shape to take a chunk out of the teardrop, but the pathfinder tools don't seem to have any effect on an object with gradient mesh applied. Am ... |
I am currently trying to make some rounded social icons for my website.
I managed to fine a blog online which supplies some vector cutouts of some of the popular site logos I need.
What I want to try and do is use the vector image to cut the shape of that image in a rounded circle so I can have it transparent in the mi... |
Question: If I have a vector path (let's say it's an SVG), what's a website I can send it to and get various "styles" in return?
What I mean by "style" is just: change the colors of the vector paths around randomly or based on some palette, and apply some kind of visual effects... and for my purposes, it's perfectly fi... |
I'm editing an svg in Inkscape and I have an object on top of another object. I'd like to use the shape of the top object to cut the object beneath it.
For those who are familiar with GIMP, I'm trying to do something like the "alpha to selection" tool.
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I am trying to optimize an animated GIF image in Photoshop. The current size is 2.2 MB. Following the guides I found online, they told me to "Save as Web" and then decrease the colors from 256 down to 128 or 64.
I tried that — however, when I try to decrease it, the size actually increased.
128 colors = 4.4 MB
64 co... |
In Photoshop we can display the grid, but I want this grid to be printed so I want to make the grid myself. What's an easy way to make this?
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Why can't I get a hard border when I used modify -> border? This is maddening and I've read about 5 posts so far that do not solve the problem?
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I have some icons I'd like to purchase and use from iconfinder.com, but they are only available as .ico files. I want to use these as part of a user-interface on a website, so I need them as either bitmap or vector format that I can bring into Photoshop to produce transparent .png files.
Does anyone have any suggestion... |
How would you draw something like that blue border above, where there's a solid line that fades out to total transparency on one side, in GIMP?
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Background
I'm a complete novice and not very tech savvy but I'm interested in teaching myself how to create and design images in a vector based format.
What I need to do
I would like to get started with the basic concepts of vector drawing. I would also like to understand the difference between raster and vector imag... |
I'm building a new website in Dreamweaver CS5 and I've made a default spry menu bar. Now I want that the menu bar has an 3D look. When you click the button on the menu bar, I would like an effect that makes the button look pushed. How can I accomplish that?
Here is my design so far:
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I am planning to design a couple of phone cases which contain features other phone cases don't have.
My plan of action is like this:
Design phone cases on computer
Send emails around to companies that manufacture and sell phone cases showing my designs and asking for a certain price (like 10% sales on the phone cases)... |
I have a library of custom Fireworks symbols which had symbol scripts allowing me to control the display attributes of elements and text via the Symbol Properties panel. The symbols and the scripts were created using Fireworks CS5.5 using the built in script editor.
When loading the same exact scripts into Fireworks CC... |
I'm trying to recreate (as close as possible, doesn't need to be exact) a logo with text, but am having trouble. The reason I'm not just using the image is because it will be looped several hundred thousand times in a mailing app and introduces unnecessary overhead so I just want to use the closest possible text alter... |
From this iPad App Store screenshot, what are the fonts for the Title, Author and Description text? Myriad Pro?
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I don't know if the question's wording is correct. Basically, I have something like this:
As you can see, blue is fading into white. The blue and white are both merged in one layer. I want to take out the white, leaving a transparent background, so that blue can fade into any background color. Obviously just selecting... |
Maybe I've just completely missed the option, but how in the world do you crop and resize an image simultaneously in PS CS6? In CS5 and prior, when using the crop tool, I could set dimensions for the crop, resize the crop area to my liking, and cropping would resize the image - not just change the aspect ratio while ma... |
Yesterday I went to a local art market and found some work I really liked:
In de wolken 80x80cm op basis van acryl by Kitty Meijering
It made me wonder how I might achieve a similar effect in Photoshop, but I could not find anything online. So, if anybody could point me in the right direction it would be highly appre... |
Yahoo is currently changing its logo's font every day and I particularly liked this font:
Would anyone know if this font is a custom development of Yahoo or if it is some (possibly paid) public font?
I tried myfonts.com but it couldnt identify it.
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The Adobe After Effects CC feature Composition -> Save Frame As -> Photoshop Layers does exactly what I want. However, it is very time consuming to do this for each frame (I am animating a game character in Adobe After Effects, and then using the .psd files to create a sprite sheet).
Is there any way (perhaps a script... |
I have this image sprite containing many small icons.
I don't know the accurate size, height and width of each icon and it's too difficult for me to find it manually with my current tools (I am using Google chrome to edit CSS). Additionally, I need to know, in pixels, how far each icon is from the top and left of the w... |
I want to import a PDF with multiple pages into Photoshop. The PDF contains tables which have a shading behind the row names and column names in the first column and row. Is there some way to use Photoshop to modify this filling? Maybe to somehow detect this rectangular a object and then adjust the colour of something?... |
I'm trying to render an italicized lowercase omega (ω) with an inverted breve ( ̑ ) in a webpage using Times New Roman.
I'm using the combining character approach: ̑ ( ̑ ) and ω (ω) should combine into a single character ̑ω (̑ω). The resulting character looks fine if I copy and paste it into Notepad... |
Is there any way in Illustrator or Photoshop to format the fill of a rectangular object so that the fill looks a bit like here?
Could somebody maybe point me in a direction? Or tell the unclear part of the question?
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Is using yellow text on a black bg bad as Mike pointed out here? If yes what colors should I use (RGB or hex values)?
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How do you prevent a transparent PNG-24 image from getting light edges when resized without having to force them out using the Webkit Optimize Contrast CSS rule?
Clarification: Resizing the image in Chrome results in lighter colored lines inside the letters and shapes near the edges. Those light edges are making the im... |
I use pen tool a lot to create custom shapes and sometimes add a new path to the existing vector mask, but I only know to choose at the tool bar to switch between the two. Is there any quicker way to switch between the path and shape section with shortcut keys?
Edit:
I would like to create new custom shapes and edit ex... |
I am using GIMP to edit my images. I have a regular playing card from a top down, 2D view. I want it to appear as though it were being tossed very quickly. I wanted to remove the top down view and add some speed blur. I have checked many of GIMP's features, but cannot find what I am looking for. Any help or simila... |
The company I'm designing a site for has an logo that I must work with. All of my ideas for standard color palettes and layouts are challenged by this logo.. Most [good looking] logos I've worked with and seen have one, two, maybe three colors. This one has six. They look okay within the context of the logo, but I'm ha... |
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