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Do you guys think a letter (like Vine, tumblr, Facebook, Vimeo) is a better representation of a brand/app than an icon (like SnapChat, Evernote, Twitter, Dropbox)?
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I have created 6 different pencil pre-sets with different diameters. What I want is to be able to cycle up and down from one pre-set to the next, preferably with a keyboard shortcut. How do I set this up?
I tried using "increase brush size more" but that only increases by 10, and on larger diameters I want more than 10... |
I'm trying to work with this photo in Illustrator CC, but there is this black box in the center of the page. I tried ignoring it but when I save my image, it only saved whats in the black box....yet I can't seem to decrease the size to just the box. I'm sure there is a very simple reason for this but I can't figure it ... |
How to make a selection of the flare that was added by Lens Flare filter in Photoshop CC 2014? Is there an automated way to do it?
I want to be able to mask the flare and tint it with blue
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Which design better uses space and is more appealing? I'm new to this community so please if this is the wrong place to ask this type of question direct me to the correct one. Thanks.
Design 1:
Design 2:
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I have just started design for mobile apps. My question is: in the beginning of the design process I have so many ideas, but I am not able to decide which one visually looks great... Designing all ideas that came up is very time consuming method. Any suggestions to a good method?
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I've divided an artwork into a bunch of artboards and now I need to move the contents of the artboards around, resize them and such. Is this possible?
Whenever I try, it either moves just the artboard boundaries, or if 'Move/Copy Artwork with Artboard' is switched on, it moves everything in the whole artwork, as oppose... |
When I drag my selected object it displays the following error:
Can't move the objects. The requested transformation would make some objects fall completely off the drawing area.
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I'm looking to snag some open source image from this collection on Flickr and print them on a 3in x 5in sheet in notebooks like this:
I know the resolution is much lower than it needs to be (72dpi vs 300?) but are there any strategies I can use to lessen the pixelation effect? One thing I was thinking about was making... |
I never thought there is a difference where I start creating a rectangle in Illustrator.
However I've just realised that if I start from Left-Upper corner I create "outer corner style", and when I start from Left-Lower corner I create "inner corner style" rectangle.
There is no any visible difference between these tw... |
Where I work we have images of products that we manufacture stored in CMYK GraCol 2006 format.
We are starting to sell products manufactured by outside companies now and those companies are sending me pictures of their products.
The product images they are sending are carrying color profiles. The images will be used ... |
Hi i Have a group of 2pt lines, and above it I have a circle.
I want to make a Circle out of the lines, heres a rough paint drawing of what i mean:
how Can I cut the lines, so they form a circle like this, and anything outside of the circle is chopped off?
Thanks
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The image is in color with a white background. I want to make the image white with a colored background. I want to switch the colors (make image white and background the color of the current image. I also want to cut out (delete) the bottom part of the image. Is it plausible to do in Illustrator cs6 or should I just us... |
I need some help understanding the relationship between coated and uncoated Pantone colors.
From what I've read online, the coated formula (say 200 C) is for printing on coated (glossy) stock, and the uncoated variant (200 U) is for uncoated (non-glossy) stock.
This would lead me to believe that the colors are formulat... |
I'm trying to determine which format is better to use when there is no transparency in an image. More importantly though, I'm trying to figure out when it's better to use one over the other.
From what I understand, JPEG essentially tricks the human eye into filling in the gaps by limiting the information to just enough... |
I am trying to identify the following font but have come to a dead end.
The closest I have been able to get are:
ITC Century Handtooled
ITC Garamond Handtooled Volume
Walburn Tooled
Walburn Tooled Caps
but none of these are quite right (note the S and the E).
I have adjusted the image to make it a bit more readable.... |
This is a typeface I recognize from late-70s / 80s advertising and would love to get my hands on it.
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I'm looking to design a modern website for a C++/Javascript library. While I have several ideas in mind I wanted to know what are some good design strategies for representing source code documentation. Particularly, I'm looking for some modern examples of great looking and easy to follow source code docs around the web... |
I am looking for an appealing way to showcase some of my existing software online. I noticed that a current trend is to show the software running on multiple devices, like this:
Does everyone who uses this design pattern really photograph their own images, or is there somewhere I can find pictures such as this, and d... |
What software products can a graphic designer work with?
What do you like about these programs?
Which do you prefer working with?
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I'm trying to set up an action that creates versatile text-containing SVG files which can be used in various places including Wikimedia Commons. The only problem is, Wikimedia Commons only supports a narrow set of copyright-free fonts: of which the most widespread are fonts like DejaVu and Liberation which people are v... |
I am trying to run a box-type theme for my homepage/FAQ. However right now the boxes just make the page look terrible. Could someone please offer me some example sites that use boxes/blocks for information, or suggest some different color palette's for me to use?
I primarily program so I am not very strong in visual d... |
Why don't brushes that I import into Illustrator save in the library? I'll open a new file and they won't be there any more. Is there a way to make them stay in there permanently?
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I'm making a responsive site and my logo loses quality when I'm opening the site on mobile (iPhone, Android) http://kadmos.li/web/ji/stck.html My logo size is 266x68px and I'm not resizing it on any responsive size. When I'm opening this link on desktop browser, the logo doesn't change in quality, but when I'm opening ... |
When I record actions, I put in the pixel size I want it to save as (1000x1000) for web export. For some reason, it will only replay this action and resize based on a scaling percentage. Is there a way to fix this without having to edit scripts? I tried changing preferences for units to pixels, but that didn't work. Pl... |
Ive been having a conversation with some one who starts lists like this :- so in context it would be
My List :-
Item 1
Item 2
Item 3
Ive always written it as : so it would be
My List :
Item 1
Item 2
Item 3
Is there any correct way to do this or do they mean different things ?
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I have two shape paths and I want to combine them into a single path, but after trying all options in the pathfinder tab, I haven't achieved the desired result. All of them just delete the line.
Here're the shapes.
And these are their layers.
How do I combine them into a single path so that I could align, move and re... |
I'm trying to create a map for Risk. I found an image scouring the Internet that fits what I want perfectly, except instead of having borders, each province is just a different color. I would like to add borders to each province. (The first image in this album is what I am describing here).
So, using GIMP, I tried goi... |
A quick question for any gurus out there :-)
Suppose I have a simple picture with a red circle, a blue square and a green triangle. The background is yellow. Those are the only 4 colors involved.
Is there are a program out there that can read in the picture and split it into 4 layers, based on color?
If I were to hide... |
I have just started learning Adobe After Effects, and I couldn't find how to do this :
I have a character which looks like walking on a black background. So I want to move the background (or the camera?) to make the walk look realistic. How can I do that?
I can think of a way but I'm not sure :
I will prepare a ver... |
I have created a very complex map in Illustrator. I am trying to cut out smaller areas of the map for use in other SketchUp. Neither pathfinder nor Divide Below gives me predicted results.
I turn off layers I don't need, then flatten the whole thing which gets rid of alot of stuff. The resulting file is not that compl... |
First post here!
What I'm trying to accomplish looks fairly simple but so far I've had no luck in finding a way to accomplish it. Essentially I want to create custom stroke caps (or strke profiles if necessary) that will allow me to create strokes with a shallow rounded end or an angled end as shown below
Is this even... |
I want to use this design on a shirt but can not figure out how to just have the dots clip to the shape without having a fill color.
So basically I want the fill color gone and the dot pattern to still exist.
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I'm cutting CSS and facing a problem, if I try to change the line-height, padding, margin of any of the last 2 items of the menu, other items will be affected. Here is the screenshot of my current menu:
And this is what I wish my menu to look like.
You can have a look at the code I wrote on JsFiddle.
How can I make ... |
I made horizontal-supposed lines using line tool and holding Shift key. But it seems like my lines are not completely horizontal. I am attaching the capture of what I see.
This becomes more obvious when I zoom in.
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My name is Kaitav Sapre and I am an independent home studio music producer. I am having a new logo designed for myself, but I am unsure about the type of logo I should consider getting designed, and what direction I should go with this.
By 'type of logo' I mean, should I go with a symbol/icon with my name, or should I... |
I've read various threads on how one can change the opacity values of stroke and fill individually by going to the Appearance panel. Unfortunately I cannot do that and I'mm stuck.
As you can see in the picture, when I'm selecting the yellow triangle and going in the Appearance panel, I get a fill and stroke option, but... |
I'm slightly new at AI. This is a new issue that I began to see today. It appears that the grid is not 100% Horizontal/Vertical with the ruler. So my objects are snapping to those angles.. reflecting and rotating are affected.
I browsed through my preferences but I could use some direction with this fix.
Thanks!
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I'm working on an e-commerce site and one problem I face is having to deal with furniture vendors and the way they shoot their photos.
Some shoot products photos up close and others from far back. This prevents the category pages from looking uniform.
As an example (both are 250 x 250):
http://safaviehhome.com/promoti... |
I am creating a web page base on adobe photoshop file. There are tons of images that vary in dimensions and spacing. Is there a way to view the dimensions of each element in px or em? Is there a way to view the spacing between elements in px or em?
Here is an example from Google Sketchup, but of course I want do thi... |
When I export a document using PDF Bleed Marks printer options, and set bleed and slug to the document settings, crop marks appear in the correct location, however crop out the actual bleed colour.
When I turn off bleed marks (but use document bleed settings), the bleed colour appears, though obviously with no marks.... |
I am curious what's your favourite fix or option for using photoshop on a retina screen like a macbook pro 13' like mine.
I'm quite upset with this computer as it is a pain to do web design in, because as you may now, the photoshop canvas looks very very small at 100%.
For example a canvas of 1280x2000 px at 72dpi , is... |
I'm printing a tradeshow flyer and was wondering what type of paper I should print it on. I don't want anything glossy so I'm trying to decide on the following:
100# text weight matte
80# cover
80# matte
What is the difference between the types above? And how can I make a decision?
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I'm looking for a good heading typeface to pair with Numbus Sans Light body copy. I tried a few modern and transitional serifs but I didn't really like them. I think Futura PT Heavy would look good, but this is a violation of the "pair serifs with sans-serif" rule.
Do font pairs like this contrast enough to work well... |
I'd like to know what is the exact resolution and density of not yet launched Moto 360 smartwatch.
I did some research and some sites say it is 320 x 320 but it looks much higher in the promotional videos.
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Title pretty much says it all, but the problem is simple. Say I have a logo imported from illustrator or whatever. I make it a symbol, and then I use it in one place in my design. Looks great.
But there's trouble - I also want a smaller version of that logo somewhere else in the design.
So, I Insert > Symbol > My Crumm... |
Can anyone help me with this? How should I get brushes for photoshop that replicate smears of beauty cream? (ageing creme, etc for product shots)
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I've developed a logo for a web and app-based music service. I'm pretty happy with the shape of the icon, it's very close to what I envisaged before making it.
However, I can't seem to find a comfortable placement for it next to the name and slogan. I'm hoping you guys can show me a way to place it, with a good reason ... |
I've literally just started using Photoshop tonight because I want to edit my mum into a photo of Michael Buble for a photocake. All was going well, I managed to cut out my mum and layer her over another photo, but I wanted to make another.
This time however, instead of having the transparent grey boxed background (mea... |
What does it mean to colour separate the artwork for T-Shirt printing?
It is normally suggested to use Pantone colours for T-Shirt printing. Is it the Pantone Coated or the Pantone Uncoated? The Uncoated one has more subtle colours and we can't choose brighter shades if the design requires that. What is more appropria... |
Can anyone please tell me what this greyscale vector style is called and how can I achieve it?
Source
I was informed I should put my image in Photoshop and adjust the levels and run the cutout filter before live tracing in AI. I cant get this to turn out right though.
The image above is a super bad 5 minute live tra... |
Before you read this, I know that there are LOADS of programs that can easily do what I'm after; I'm cut short for time and I just don't have the hours to try out a numerous software to find out that something may not work or suite my need.
I want to put together a slideshow for my friends wedding (this Saturday!) that... |
I would like to feature screenshots of websites taken on my phone, tablet and laptop in a print document.
The print document is 300 ppi and the screenshots are 72 ppi.
Importing the screenshots directly into the printed document obviously gives poor quality images.
How do I prepare the screenshots for print use and get... |
In Illustrator, I sometimes get a problem with imported files saved by Inkscape, CorelDraw etc: text on a path got converted to single chars without being connected to the path. The path and the chars are still there.
I've put an example in the attachment (exported from CC to CS to be compatible to anyone).
I've found ... |
Could someone help identify what font is used in these screenshots? Thanks.
http://zshthem.es/all/
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(First post, yay!)
Im working on a fashion lookbook for print and I'm displaying product colours on a black background, but what can I do for when I need to display black on black? Example:
As you can see there are 3 colours but the black is not legible on black, what do you reckon I could do to improve visibility wit... |
This is my first post here. I have Peter's (forgot his last name) excellent change case-script so I can do the replacement with no problem, but the find is baffling me.
I have a glossary where the term has been written in a character style so I can easily select all the words in that character style. It's all caps an... |
I'm documenting a technical/scientific project, in which I'm needing an extensive amount of graphs to represent the data.
I would like this graphs to be as clear and representative as possible. Of course the priority is using properly the data and choose the most appropriate medium (meaning for instance bar plot agains... |
Hello all the pro designers out there,
I have a question about text alignment.
This is what I am designing right now. The font is Brandon Grotesque.
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I have noticed that when I use letter "L", it doesn't line up with other paragraphs.
However, that is how the font was originally designed.
Do you think it's necessar... |
I'm building the interface for a music application and you can sort by songs, albums, artists, etc. I have icons for all of these, but I'm currently using a generic "person" icon for artists/musicians. What icon can be used to represent "music artist"?
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Does anyone know what font this is? Is it custom-made for the music label? There are also posters with the same font, only in a light version.
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I cannot find what I believe are hidden layers in a piece I am doing in Illustrator. Can someone please tell me how I might find layers that are hidden?
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For some reason my video is coming out a lighter black than web #000 black.
I'm using After Effects & Web - H.264 profile.
Left: Web | Right: Video
The photo doesn't do it justice.. it's very noticable for what I'm trying to achieve. Is there any way to get this #000 color to match up in the video?
Update:
Testing on ... |
I have created text in Illustrator that I want to show in an arc'ed format. I selected the text and then chose Effect/warp then I chose the type of arc I wanted. So far so good. The text shows as arc'ed BUT it also shows in a straight line underneath the arc'ed text.
Can someone please tell me how to do this witho... |
I am having a problem with a packaging I am developing for a client.
The client did all the artwork and sent it to me so I can communicate with the printer for sampling.
Most of the artwork was made in Illustrator, but the logo is an image in PSD with transparent background, which was embedded into the Ai file.
The pri... |
As a engineer, there are many tools in the web that allow to generate good color scheme based on the selected base colors.
But the problem is: How to select the first, base color? Is it just random pick a color or are there any predefined color (hue, saturation, etc) that are considered as a starting point?
Such as, I... |
I'm running into a problem when using a clipping mask or opacity mask in Illustrator CC 17.1. Either type of mask leaves a slight outline around the masking object, creating a noticeable break in what should be a uniform background. Some details:
I've created a ring in 4 quadrants. Each quadrant contains patterns/obj... |
What is the font in this logo? I have searched Dafont and other sources, but all I could find was the Convoy typface. Convoy has no lowercase glyphs, though.
Thanks.
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We are working on a software with a design close to Office 2013 (2D icons, main colors black and white).
We have a button which allows the user to change the units in the software. We are looking for an icon explicit for users. Units in this case are temperatures : °C, K, °F, but also distances : meters or foot.
What w... |
I found this image on google and was fascinated by the realism of the bevel effect and wanted to learn how to do it myself.
I tried some stuffs but they were not close enough. I want to replicate the exact same effect.
Here's what I tried:
Bevel & Emboss: structure: inner bevel/smooth/225%/up/4px/0px shading: 120rad... |
How to create a rectangle with stroke only on one side of the rectangle ?
By default the stroke is applied to all sides of the rectangle.
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I need to put a screenshot of a desktop application into a macbook mockup.
My problem is that the mockup I have needs a screenshot of 2880x1800px but my system screen is not big enough.
I have another macbook frame where I can place the screenshot but in this frame I have to reduce the size of it which makes it very bl... |
Does anyone know if there is a way to copy Live Shape Properties from one shape to another?
It's nice to adjust strokes and fill and stuff, but I'd like to save it somehow to easily apply it to other shapes (equivalent styles for layer-configurations).
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When using a stop in my gradient, it doesn't smoothly transition from the solid color before the stop.
It has a thicker appearance. See the picture below.
Notice the visibly darker line in the middle, where the actual gradient starts.
How do I make this smooth, like it should?
The white also seems to stop rather abrupt... |
Do I have to choose a Pantone black, or can I just use 100% K?
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I need to create a portfolio to enter a graphic design program.
Subjects are the use of typography and imagery to communicate information and ideas.
Possible projects might include things like
posters
magazine article layout
package design
interface design
What software do you recommend?
How should I produce the fi... |
Is there much of a cost difference between the two?
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I am Photoshop enthusiast, I can't find how to change eraser shape like in Photoshop (eraser "brush" mode).
In Illustrator eraser is always circle or ellipse (when you change width in eraser parameters). In Photoshop if you want to delete part of the image you just change the brush for your eraser tool and with one cl... |
I want to create an effect/color like this image of the cloud in the Parse.com logo. It is not quite white, and seems to have a texture. I am new to illustrator, but have a white "cloud" made thanks to some other tutorials. How do I proceed?
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With Adobe CC I've gained access to Typekit. I've started playing around with it and noticed they put a cap on page views per month on loading the fonts. (Currently I'm capped at 500,000 but would need 5,000,000+).
I assume this is due to bandwidth use, or perhaps it's due to foundry licensing. I understand I could upg... |
I'm wondering what the function of adding these color spectrums is?
Attaching screenshot.
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I have some images that have some transparent grey pixels, and when I make the picture larger, thoose pixels are visible a little bit.
Is there a way to do this with Photoshop?
In GIMP you can select when you export 'clear color data from transparent pixels'.
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I need to send a vector file to a textile laser cutter. The image size is 521 pixels, and I'm hoping to create a motif that equals 18.75 inches.
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So, in doing a commissioned logo for a church, I learned the hard way that, apparently, font-skewing (as opposed to warping) has been removed in Illustrator CS6. I'm not sure why and now that I'm looking for a clean alternative, so far, to no avail.
I want to create my own skewed font-face, I'm wondering what other Il... |
For example, how could I recreate the "Ask Question" button in pure CSS without images?
There is this method here but I'm looking for a normal no-fill stroke-only border.
I've been able to do it using inline SVG, but I was hoping there was a way to do it without SVG, using nothing but CSS styles (perhaps something lik... |
Graphics were designed in Illustrator CS3 and "placed" in InDesign CS3. When I use the print booklet option to print to PDF, the pages are correctly put in the print spread order, but my some of my colours (specifically a faded out vector logo) are wonky when viewed in the PDF. If I instead "export" to PDF from the sam... |
I'm using (or trying to use) Photoshop CC (14.2.1 x64) to produce small bitmaps for a .Net Micro Framework device. Memory is at a premium so I need to produce the screen assets in 16 bit RGB 565 format.
I have my document set up in RGB (I've tried RGB 32 and RGB 16) but when I come to "save as" bitmap / bmp is not on... |
I am looking for this font. It is similar to Lithos, but it is handtooled. Does anyone know the name of it?
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Here is a picture (of many) that I took from a book with my phone camera.
The problem is that the background is too grey. I want it fully white. I have adobe Photoshop CS6. Does anyone know how I can fix this?
Note: I need instructions, as I need to do this to many other pics.
Thanks
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I'm attempting to recreate an advertisement for a school project and when I draw two shapes near each other the pen tool wants to link my second shape to the first. This happens as soon as I start to get closer to the first shape with the my anchor points. I would like to be able to draw an anchor point almost on top o... |
i remember one of the terms had to do with the icon was actually what it represented. (like illustration of a highway means this is now a highway)
and the other one was something in between like knife and fork reprecenting food
and if i recall correcly the third was something unrelated / abstract doing the reprecenting... |
How do width, height and resolution matter, and what's the standard or how to calculate the right resolution for current width and height in order to achieve a well refined image or retina image, or an image that is not pixelated?
I want to make some images that are very good quality like an android icon, a game charac... |
Some People asked me to make some designs for their store frontpage.
I know the illustration programs is the best to keep the resolution hight.
But the frontpage contains pictures like food & drinks and because of this I am afraid to lose the quality because the size is 4M * 4M.
I've edited the pictures in Photoshop u... |
I would like to to change the saturation of all the color of an image to a fixed amount retaining the original hue and brightness.
One could think that this is easily achieved by the sautration blending mode. In fact you can read on the web tutorials things like this:
The Saturation blending mode applies the saturatio... |
This question most definitely deserves to be asked directly to my printer but since they're currently on leave for the week, figured I'd give it a shot here to get a general idea on how I should approach my design.
I'm getting a text printed and want to add a debossed detail in the existing printed word spaces. It's a ... |
I have been given a request to re-size and up the resolution on a handful of images to be printed 40 in. x 30 in. to be hung on the walls in a new facility conference room where clients will see them. A lot of the images I've been given are pretty lo-res (10 in x 8 in, 96 dpi), so obviously when I try to re-size them t... |
I know one designer that is a motion graphics guy first, then a UI designer. Recently, produced a website design entirely in After Effects and got my thinking whether that approach can be a viable alternative to Photoshop or Illustrator for UI designs.
The design he produced was very simply so it doesn't show me what A... |
I've designing a page for a site of mine, but I'm getting a strange issue with the following code.
<section id="struttura" class="inner">
<div class="content">
....
</div>
</section>
<section id="solitaguida" class="inner">
<div class="content">
...
</div>
</section>
section .inner { margin-top: 1.5em; }
div .inner { ... |
I know I can create a layer mask, but this method only accepts a bitmapped mask as far as i know, than the result is not perfect.
I tried using this method: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGBNHY5rAxg
What I'm trying to achieve is:
Layer 1 - Regular bitmapped (Raster type) image (it will be even better if it could be a... |
The question pretty much stated it all, I want the red parts for transparency and all the white removed from this fingerprint image.
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