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I'm looking for the common names of the four basic control states (for desktop interfaces):
Control is in its default state;
Cursor is hovering above the control;
Control is being pressed;
Control is being held down, but the cursor is outside its pressing zone
So far I could come up with the following names:
defaul... |
I'm looking to place the color proof/test somewhere on the printable area of a box. The problem is that I don't know what they are called and where to get information about them (pattern, template, etc).
These patterns I believe are designed and placed to ensure print quality.
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I'm creating a t-shirt design and need to know how to combine all the white shapes that make this image and separate it from any dark green. The white image will eventually be printed on a dark green t-shirt as shown in the template. If you open the file you can see that the image was created with a combination of whit... |
This is a rather stupid question so I apologise in advance but I just wanted to be 100% sure! I have a set of photos at 300 ppi that are 800 pixels by 800 pixels and need to convert them in Photoshop to 72 ppi for web use (at the same size: 800px by 800px).
In Photoshop if I use the 'Resize Image' option and uncheck 'R... |
In Illustrator's print dialog, I can choose trim marks and color bars, however it decides to place them outside of the print area.
The print I'm working on will be die-cut and would like to move the registration marks and color bars to a specific area inside the die-cut area.
Is it possible to get access to those marks... |
I was trying to recreate this kind of image in Adobe Illustrator.
I had tried perspective grid tools in Illustrator as well as blend options, but couldn't get the proper result. How can I create this using the perspective tool?
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It seems accepted amongst typographers that the double space after a period is a dated artifact of monospace typewriters, but is it acceptable to use a double space in between sentences like:
I trust Dr. Wang. Dr. Wang is very experienced.
Sure, you could rework the wording or even make this a single sentence with a ... |
This is something that I have struggled with for years. If I create a shape layer with rounded edges - for example with a 10px radius - if I resize the overall shape then the corner radius grows with it as well.
What I want to do is keep the radius of the edges whilst resizing the overall size.
The only way I can do th... |
I want to create Image like below. Can someone show me how to do this in Photoshop?
Thanks!
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Design of almost all sites on the web is sharp. How can I create a good web page where tabs, buttons, and other UI elements mimic the style of impressionism?
I find common themes of impressionism to be small brush strokes, open composition, depiction of light as opposed to usual web graphics.
Do you think is it possib... |
I have recently drawn and scanned a children's book that I will try to have published. I converted the scans into vectors using Vector Magic in order to have nice, clean, smooth lines without any stray pixels. These files are now .ai files. I was wondering what my next step is in terms of
cropping - The pages are cur... |
I've created a simple vector pennant type banner using Photoshop. I'd like to put a stroke on the banner with dashed lines approximately 3 pixels in from the edges of the shape. I know I can add a stroke to the shape and that looks fine, but I want to position the stroke so that there is a space of about 3 pixels betwe... |
Hi there I'm trying to export all of the layers in my .psd to .pngs/.jpegs and I am having trouble exporting them so that the sizes of the individual .pngs are the size of the image they contain.
I have seen this thread which has a script that almost does this but since I'm a new user here I can't comment on it...if t... |
I'm trying to iterate through every layer in a document and for some reason my script only goes through the first half (13 out of 25) and then at 14 it says that the element doesn't exist. Could you guys help me figure out why? Below is the code snippet which goes through each layer
function processLayers(extension)
{
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Let me begin this question by saying outright that I don't consider myself a designer! I'm a developer and my strengths do not lie in design but I am in a situation at the moment where I need to design a site and I have a number of different possible color schemes that I'd like to try out.
I've tried this before but ra... |
I'm trying to create a line drawing of my friend Steve, I was Steve's best man at the wedding where the photo was taken. I like the shot because the smile it subtle but definitely there.
I've been tweaking the image below in illustrator for at least 2 hours and Steve still doesn't look that happy.
What is it about th... |
I recall reading an article prior to CS6 releasing that Photoshop (or perhaps another CS6 product?) would include a feature that would allow taking a stereographic photo of an object, and then detect the foreground object from the background, thus allowing clean extraction of a photographed object from the background. ... |
I need advice on creating a personal logo. I am stuck.
I have done one professional logo for a friend before, It was for a trust, the logo came out well because I know what the logo represented very clearly... not that I don't know about myself, but I can't seem to think of anything to represent me the way I could for ... |
I really want to know that this style is called. You see it often, also on clothing. I would like to create something like it in my own name. But before I can actually look for tutorials, I think I need to know what it's called.
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Photoshop doesn't support to apply border radius after drawing of rectangle. I found this link and tried myself but seems to be not working. Is there any step is missed or is there any other idea to apply border radius after drawing a rectangle?
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today I'm looking for some advice from folks who have laid out event programs.
In this case, the client (a local nonprofit) has a famous keynote speaker at their event, and have solicited donations from local businesses. Each donation over a certain level = a full page ad in the program for the event. Most of them are... |
Ok, I want to make a video for a wedding, to be played on a stadium scoreboard. The scoreboard's dimensions are 1280 x 424. I was told to make my images this size and make a DVD in either .wmv or .mov.
My issue
How do I make the pictures that I have made with Illustrator, and make a video with them? Can I make the vi... |
I'm not a designer but I need some PS usage for creating my android app. I have about 100 .png pictures and I need to do the same procedure with all of them: cut off 50px from the bottom and from the top of each picture. That would be a huge waste of time to do it manually so is there any way to automatize this action?... |
Flat design has become extremely popular since the release of Windows 8, but I cannot find as many examples of it on the desktop as I do on the web and mobile apps. By desktop examples I mean Windows 7/Vista/XP visual styles, Gtk/QT themes and Linux desktops. I don't think there are as many applications which use princ... |
I'm talking about screenshots like these:
These images appear completely non-pixelated and in high resolution. The first one is a a vanilla, operating-system level menu bar in Mac OS, and the second one is in Blender, which does all its own menus.
Is there a trick to getting screenshots like this?
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I am new to photoshop design. I am trying to design a website template using photoshop. I have my header part with background color. After that i created new layer called Home meny it is not visible. Header is hiding my text and whatever i draw i cant see. can anyone guess where I am wrong.
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I'm testing out some fonts, and I'd like to see how they look with language that use more than the basic latin alphabet, in my case Dutch, German, Spanish, Polish and Portuguese.
Is there a tool (preferably online) that can generate lorem ipsum like text which looks like one or more of those languages?
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This is 120px X 283px dimension, PNG image.
When using it in website the same image dimension is set through css but in the browser view it is showing like a saw like this
Is it possible to draw without any little curve?
Is there a file format or method I can save with that will reduce the aliasing on the line?
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I don't know if I'm in the right place, but I would like to know how to transform a pixel image I've made into a vector logo ?
I use this picture for my favicon of my personal web site.
And if you have any software recommendations, I work on mac. I prefer use an open source one.
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I have multiple paths (not intersecting), each one of them consists of two anchor points only. Imagine a path from A to B and the second one from C to D. What I want to do is to select the space ABCD. I tried using Direct Selection Tool, but it can select anchor points from one currently highlighted path only. So, how ... |
I know from high-rank journals such as Nature that they redesign figures they get from authors. These plots look highly professional, but too complicated to be done with Adobe Illustrator et al.
Which tools are used by publishers to generate high quality figures?
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I am using Paint to draw some swords for a character I have. I am not very experienced and this is my first time trying to draw swords.
My question is how large (Preferably in pixels) do I need to make the picture to make the curves on the sword to look smooth. I am using current scale of 100 pixels = an inch. For the ... |
I have imported a set of PNG'S as layers by calling FILE > OPEN AS LAYERS
And I get the result:
All the layers are oddly cascaded on top of each other
So when I got to export it, I get this:
What I want is to get each frame showing by themselves, what am I missing?
Can anyone help me with a solution?
Thanks in advanc... |
I have been given a small web project for an ecommerce store. The logo uses Bauhaus 93 and I am struggling to find good fonts to pair with this.
Image borrowed from Identifont
Particularly I would prefer to only use Bauhaus for the logo and another 1-2 fonts for headings and body text.
Can anyone recommend some nice ... |
I am trying to create some PowerPoint templates for work and need to know what size images to use for the templates so they will look good on the screen. I tried making one with images that are 1024 x 768 pixels and when I view it on a large screen it looks awful.
I have searched and can't find any real clear guideline... |
When I have a large smart object, and then shrink it down, I often get some extreme sharpening. And while I understand that shrinking down an image may require some sharpening, photoshop can go a little overboard.
Here, for example, is a large 1:1 smart object on the right and the result when shrunk down on the left.
... |
I am new to Photoshop. I have a Photoshop template with 3 text layers.
How to create a batch job for:
creating .psd files by image name (each line has a unique name in CSV file) with Photoshop ?
Then I want to replace three text layers with my text in CSV
Finally I want to import jpeg images (that is in a folder) in e... |
I recently created some graphics with Adobe Illustrator, saved them as PDFs and sent them to a printing company for a quote for part embroidery, part screen print on clothing.
The quote came back with an additional fee for the file to be sent off to someone else, to be prepared for embroidery.
What needs to be done to ... |
I have read some articles about web design, all of them recommend to choose a color palette first. I know colors are most important thing for professional web look. COLOURlovers, a web for color palettes. It has thousands of color palettes. I am beginner to web designing so, I don't know how to properly use palettes. W... |
This is a little hard to explain, so bear with me. I'm wanting to save out a series of diagram images in a sprite sheet for a website. Right now, I have it so that I have a white image with "holes" cut into it that make the diagram. I put a background behind that image and it colors the "holes."
The problem is, the ... |
What is the font in Bristol West Insurance Logo?
Thanks in advance!
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I'm making a map in Gimp. I want to have the following layers:
background
cities
rivers
mountains
So I want, say, 30 cities on one layer so that I can turn it off and on. However, every time I create a new text item, it creates a new layer.
How can I put numerous text items on one layer?
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I am looking to set up a single .psd file I can use for my iPhone splash screens, the main document at 640x1136 and a "guide layer" at 640x960 that I can use to generate the slightly smaller splash screen from the same image file.
What's the best way to create this "guide" layer? It obviously needs to persist across cr... |
I have an Illustrator file that contains patterns. I'd like to export each pattern as an individual image to use in this new program that I'm trying called Sketch. Is there a batch processing script that exports layers as PNG or SVG? I'd like to have each geometric pattern available as a PNG, not as one large file.
Any... |
I wonder how brush marks are applied to images. For example, there are some good marks on the sun graphic below. Are they textural, or do they require some special painting tricks? Any keyword that directs me to true path or link will be appreciated. I'm looking to accomplish this with GIMP.
By the way, they seems like... |
This question is a follow-up of should I look into different graphic design softwares
I am starting to use Inkscape now, like many have suggested in that post.
How do I practice it?
I mean in GIMP I just started designing right away and learned along the way, But still I feel like I don't use ALL the features of GIMP... |
I have created three paragraph styles: "Título" as a first-level category, "SubTítulo" as the second-level category and "SubSubTítulo" as the third-level category.
"SubTítulo" is based on "Título", and "SubSubTítulo" is based on "SubTítulo". They all belong to a list called "Títulos".
While the second-level category wo... |
I've been trying to figure out the name of this portfolio style. Is it as simple as Staggered?
I'm attempting to do something similar, but I have no idea what the style is called. I've searched for staggered, but no satisfactory results.
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I have some old documents that have been scanned, and I want to convert them to black and white. Content should be always black, and background white:
I use Photoshop.
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I have created a rectangle and on that rectangle I masked it. Now I wanted to pick up color with brush tool pressing Alt+Click but it is not picking the exact color. It only picks up black or white color. It seems staying at masked layer it picks up only black and white color.
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I am a web developer working at a company where the front end framework we have selected is Angular JS. I am now in the position where I am the 'resident expert' whatever that means. I have been tasked with teaching/explaining everything that our designers need to know about Angular JS. Therefore I have the following q... |
How to convert a colored image to something light and something white background?
here is an example:
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I've got some text in the image and I need to match its style. I typed a text I wanted to add in and I was able to match the font and so on. The only thing I couldn't have done was to match the patten of the text. I've added some noise to make it look alike. It looks kind of close but not the same:
If you zoom in you'... |
I've been working with GIMP for some time now and at the moment I'm creating some wood graphics for a game. For creating the wood, I first fill the image in brown, then apply some filters and finally I have my wood texture.
The problem is that I need to get many different-sized textures. It would be really annoying alw... |
What is a good color to use for a button that will be put on an HTML page that uses this dark background color: #404040 ?
I looked at various shades using Adobe's Kuler of the above mentioned background color (#7F7F7F, #FFFFFF, #E5E5E5) and I'm thinking about making a PhotoShop button using #7F7F7F.
Any advice would ... |
I have found a website that sells posters that includes graphic design, and am now thinking of creating from scratch my own posters to sell on my website, using the same idea/concept (please note that I am not copying any of the already existing work, I start from a blank page).
By using the same idea/concept for my ow... |
I have a one-page document with approximately 150 different layers, each containing an individual set of user credentials. I'm now looking to print 150 copies of this document, one with each set of user credentials on it to send out to 150 different users.
Is there an easy way of automating this process or should I ju... |
In a square-angled bracket, what is the name of the short horizontal lines at the top/bottom of the vertical line? ex. [ ]
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I have been trying to create a GIF using a sequence of PNGs within GIMP
An example PNG from the sequence shows the correct transparency I want to be shown in the GIF,
But when I process the PNG sequences in GIMP and create the GIF image, I get the following result:
What am I doing wrong here?
I have set the settings ... |
I've recently got into that "hipster" trend of long shadowing. I have seen this example quite a lot, and have tried replicating it myself. No efforts have been successful though. And even the close ones seemed like to much work for that effect.
Main issue i'm having are the middle green triangles, and their shadows... |
Any idea what this font is?
See more of it:
http://archive.org/details/XD300-23_68HighlightsAResearchCntAugHumanIntellect
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I'm looking for fiction films that are either about graphic design, or have important elements of its history, and I'm a bit stuck.
I'm not trying to find movies that would be inspiring for designers (that would be quite broad and subjective), but movies that touch the subject of design directly.
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Can somebody tell me what font the word "BATMAN" is in this image? Or what any very similar font style to that.
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I have layers with different elements in each layer.
Each elemnt have their own margin from edge.
Is it possible to export file to png\jpg\etc with overlayed layer with dimensions of each separate element (maybe text sizes too)?
I mean smth like that:
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I really need to know what font is in this image:
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I have a PNG, its width is 1960px and height is 1583px. It is 3.3MB in total.
When I go to Illustrator Live Trace > Photo High Fidelity, and then I expand the paths, the vector image is very good but the file size is now 8.9MB.
I thought that when I convert to vectors it would have a smaller file size, but it increase... |
I am using Adobe Illustrator to design a number of full screen layouts for an iphone app. I want to achieve the exact same spacing from my desings in the final app. Currently the only way I know how to do this would be to turn on the guides and rulers and painstakingly measure each space between each object manually. I... |
I haven't been to an AIGA event in a few years, and I've only been to a handful between the VT AIGA and Philly AIGA. What I remember between the two were they seemed great for students, and maybe print designers who would be interested in local print companies providing samples and giving their pitch.
What I'd like to ... |
I have a huge amount of images that I would like to batch process with Photoshop (any version).
They're all different shapes and sizes in terms of resolution and quality.
I want to batch process them all to 70% quality and a max of 640px wide. The quality part is easy, it's the width that's causing me a problem.
Some o... |
I keep seeing quite a lot of stuff like the attached screenshot:
At the moment, I usually fumble around with the pencil tool to draw a rough curve and then spend ages smoothing it before tiling it to create the circular pattern. More often than not, what I create isn't as 'crisp' geometrically as it could be.
Here ar... |
I'm a beginner to GIMP, and I'd like to create a grid.
I searched Google and all it gave me was to use the Filter > Render > Grid plugin, but for my job all I want to do is something like this:
Let's say I have a square image that's 1530 x 1530, and I want the grid to be an 8 x 8 matrix with grid lines that are 1px wi... |
I have a layer, which I would like to save as an image. See
(the image is the complete button)
When I choose the layer and choose file->save for web.. it save the image with the transparent background. I would like save the image without the background - just the image itself (which is way smaller than the full one)
H... |
I'm new to Illustrator. I've just started a new project and my artboard is appearing in front of the grid, per below.
How do I force my artboard to appear behind the grid, so I can use it for my work? Also, I tried adjusting the grid dimension, but it appears it is pre-set to points. Can I just change the dimension t... |
I often work on InDesign documents that have sections that are complete and that I want to export to PDF to share with a client but have other sections or pages that are work-in-progress that I would prefer to hide.
My question is, is there a way to mark pages within InDesign as something like "skip-for-export" so th... |
I'm making a letter M in Illustrator by using the pen tool and drawing half of the letter and then mirroring it with a transform effect. I noticed that when I zoom in there is a hairline space due to the fact that the edge is not 100% vertical. I've tried moving the anchor point around but I can't get it completely ver... |
I'm having some trouble resizing a group of vector objects in an illustration. These objects used to be lines until I expanded them into vector shapes, and before I scale them they look fine:
But as soon as I scale them the width of these "lines" completely distort:
These are the possible solutions I've already tried... |
My First Question here,
I have a lot of PSD's to work on in which my main job is to:
Copy a layer/layers
Make a new Document
place/drag them into the new document
Trim the image to size
Save as a PNG File
Then reduce their sizes to half and re-save
Then, I have to make a hell lot of images so all this is very time ... |
What are the essential must-read and industry magazines in the design & advertising world? (UK, printed)
What should I expect to find on a coffee table at a high end design house?
(Why? you ask...)
I am about to launch a service aimed at designers and advertising houses, and want to know which are best to advertise in,... |
How can I export a file that you could set it as a folder icon in Windows 7? And also, how do you get an application that has only one icon to change it's size when re-scaling? I set folder options to display large icons instead of normal and it changes icon, but when I go to application folder there is only one icon f... |
I am trying to optimise a vector graphic so it does align well to pixels but if I try to align-to-pixel grid I loose too much from the quality and I still need to be able to snap with 0.5px increments.
How can I obtain this behaviour? … without loosing the pixel view feature.
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I try to design a vector shape that will render good at different sizes.
I do have an artboard for each icon size: 16x16, 24x24, 32x32 and I do want to "clone" my shape so I will be copied in each of these artboards, but when I modify it the change will propagate to the others. It is like having multiple instances of t... |
When I try to delete a node in a space, by pressing DEL, the closed-shape it gets broken (not-continous anymore).
How can I remove point from these without breaking them?
Note: I used Illustrator CS6, is this makes a difference.
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In regards to external services (Dribbble, Behance, and Deviant) what is the purpose of having a portfolio website but you link all your images externally and take a viewer away from the main site and purpose?
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I'm trying to export the layers of my illustrator document into photoshop, but the only way to do so is one by one copy and pasting...are there any ways to mass export these layers while still preserving them as smart objects?
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How do I create this type of effect with an image? I'm wondering how to get the thick edges and the tilted look. Is there an online tool that will convert a flat image to look like this?
Source
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Can anybody help me identify the fonts used here?
The sign is WWII, circa 1943 if that helps. I've been digging around for hours and I can't seem to get it.
Tried matching heavy on what the font - nothing is really close.
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There are a lots of layers in my projects. Previously I have renamed a layer with "system" and to that layer I have set visibility hidden. I want to show that layer again but I have to search manually by scrolling the layer palettes and I can do that. But I want to know just that is there find dialog box which can sear... |
I'm an Illustrator beginner, and I have just made pie chart. I removed the borders but I still end up with a 1 pixel wide border between the pieces of the pie whenever I export to PDF or AI. Please see the attached image (zoomed to make it easier to spot it).
The question is: How do I get rid of it?
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I have a large list of images (all different sizes and aspect ratios) that need to be edited. I need to perform the following operations:
Crop image to a specific aspect ratio
Resize that image to specific dimensions
Save/Compress
I tried to create an action, and perform the previous steps. The problem is, even thoug... |
Here's something that's puzzelled me for a long time. Here's the default on InDesign's Export to PDF (and also Acrobat's PDF optimiser):
Obviously 300 ppi is the default it downsizes to because 300 ppi common resolution for print. But what's the benefit in only downsampling images that are above 450 ppi?
Why not "dow... |
I was curious to know if there are any resources, books, blogs that focus on perfecting object shadowing and lighting with Photoshop and/or Illustrator? I have and know how to do basic shadowing and lighting but it is an area I know I need to improve and I would like to know some resources I can review or hopefully le... |
I have repetitive actions I need to perform on images that are all consistent.
For example I have 100 images with size 100 X 100
What I need to do on each one:
1. scale to 75 x 75
2. export as png ( with the same name )
3. close the original without saving
thanks !
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If I try to create a 3D effect in Photoshop (or on paper), I always get it wrong. I remember how easy it was to create cubes in graph paper, but hard in plain paper.
I wonder is there are any grids available to help me with this? This grid for example looks like what I am looking for, but it seems to be for a particul... |
Currently working on an application, which will be released on Multiple platforms, targeting OS X and Windows devices first, followed by iOS release. The current focus is on the OS X version, which will be released first.
During the design process, I have opted for Myriad Pro. Which suits the application in various are... |
I was watching a video tutorial and the instructor seemed to switch the colour of a layer from white to black with a shortcut, since his cursor did not leave the layer thumbnail section, per below...
Does anyone know which shortcut that would be?
Thanks in advance.
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In the tutorial I'm watching the instructor has just created a new rectangle. With that layer selected, he goes up to the "Path Alignment" dropdown in the tool bar - having already selected "Align to Canvas" from it - then selects "Vertical Centers." Here:
When I try to do the same, all of the options above "Align to... |
So a designer has given me some logos (for the web) which are white on a blue background. She has, however, added blue paths to the shape to make it match the background.
I would prefer to change these blue parts to be transparent.
One path is just a circle that should really be a circle cut out of the main image. The ... |
How to join two endpoints of different paths in Illustrator?
It is said in manual, that points should be selected first, but I can't select them, since they are not on the same path.
I can select two paths in total, but once I start selecting nodes, only one path remains selected.
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Recently I noticed a trend in graphic and industrial design that focuses on (usually predominant) white or very light gray and high contrast black or dark gray shapes — which fascinates me because of the timeless and sometimes futuristic look.
Does this design direction have a name?
Can somebody point me to any artic... |
I have created an animation in Photoshop. I want to merge them in 1 image file side by side. Is there an easy way to do it? Because I will do this process about 10-15 times.
My animation timeline (click for full resolution)
I want a result like this:
Edit:
I tried a technic but couldn't be successful.
I made layers ... |
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