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I have some white lines (converted to path) on top of my star shape (rasterized) as shown in the picture. I am trying to "delete" the white lines from the shape so the shape gaps can be seen in transparent if that makes sense. The rectangle on top right shows what I am trying to achieve.
I tried to select both the star... |
I'm working on a project at work where we are building out a full scale application. Its going to span a 2 year period. Ive been naming and dating psds. I'm still having a hard time staying organized. I'm starting to design a design library and I am planning on attaching all my psds there in order to organize everythin... |
This isn't a major issue, but I recently reset my preferences for Illustrator CS5 and now find the Selection Tool (black arrow) is highlighting every single object I pass over. Previously, only once I clicked on an object or text would a bounding box appear. But now whenever I pass my cursor over shapes it highlights t... |
I'm on AE CS6 and when I'm scaling a shape layer it doesn't scale perfectly.
For instance, I'm scaling an ellipse shape and I want a perfect circle, usually all I have to do is hold the shift key and drag the shape to create a perfect circle.
Instead it's being constrained to an oval! Does anyone have the answer?
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I have a main timeline with smaller compositions on it. I pre-rendered one of the smaller compositions into a PNG sequence and now the smaller composition is updated on the main timeline as... well, a PNG sequence it looks like.
Why did this happen? How can I get it to go back to being a composition? (Using "Revert" an... |
I have adobe Illustrator CC 2014, but don't have the enhance toolbar with the features such as spot healing, clone, red eye, etc. How do I add in this toolbar?
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All artboards in my current project are organized according to page and iteration. As I'm adding more and more, I've come to the edge of the workable area in Illustrator.
I'd rather not break my organization system or have to move each artboard one-by-one to shift everything to where there's room.
Is there a way to jus... |
I am trying to use minus front on a grouping of objects (object 1) that I want to cut out of object 2. But when I click minus front, it actually changes half the group shapes. Any idea why? I've never had this happened before.
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Can someone help me and guide me how to edit the crown on the picture to match with the king wallers logo?
I dont know how to color it partly,make it glow a little and use shades.
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I have the image shown above where the black colored stroke is the outline of the cloud. I also have a slightly offsetted blue color fill. What should I do to put the blue color fill inside the outline (along with the whitespace)? I tried using the clip option, but it wasn't helpful.
The above picture shows how I wou... |
The interactivity becomes more and more presents in our design for the web, but has anyone found a good way to presents the interactivity to the client ?
I talk mainly about the small animations like these one:
A hover on a button
An effect on the navbar when the user scroll,
An element on the design that move when t... |
I am newbie and would like guidance on How do you present the logo to a client visually in a professional way?
What are the different ways of presenting a logo to a client?
If there are links to these resources, I will highly appreciate.
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What is the name of the font used in this logo? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
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I've circled it in red. What is the design name of this element?
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Recently, I've seen a video where the guy makes a pyramid by selecting both upper anchor points of a square, and then clicking and dragging with some tool, converging both points to the center. How do I do that? Is it a CC specific tool?
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I need to make a restaurant menu design that matches restaurant wallpapers. For some reason my client cannot get color codes used in wallpaper, but he provided me with a sample. (see below)
How can I get the correct color codes from the wallpaper? (someone mentioned that there are scanners for this purpose, but I coul... |
I've just encountered a situation where, for the first time since I started designing, I am switching from one desktop to another with a completely new OS (Win 8.1 instead of Win 7) and will be required to "start fresh", as it were.
Do you all, as graphic designers, have specific tools or procedures that would be usefu... |
I want to be able to print on tabloid paper then fold it like a booklet but with a spine. So essentially it would have two folds so that it somewhat represents a spine. I would also want to have it stapled along the spine or folds of the spine. I was wondering if this was possible, right now I use a xerox 4112 if anyon... |
I am working in a very regular AI file, it have no variables or any external links. each time I open that file in illustrator, I see an asterisk beside its name tab in my workspace, which mean the file is unsaved and need to click on save button to get rid of that asterisk.
it is not a big issue specially the file ope... |
I want to apply a style to a title and have the next text start in the same vertical position everywhere i do this (a space before, but from the start, and not the end, of the previous paragraph).
Example:
one page another page
__________________ _________________
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I am working with a packaging manufacturer in China. I create the files using Illustrator cs6 but after they make adjustments to my files and send the file back to me, I can't edit the text like I normally would using the cursor.
The Selection Tool (V) and The Direct Selection Tool (A) allow me to select a letter or w... |
In Illustrator, when creating a path (such as for lettering), how do you go back and adjust handles of anchor points before the current on, and then continue from where you left off without losing the most recent handle?
He manages to do it in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgbtJM1Zuks
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I have just started designing print templates like brochures and business cards for graphic marketplaces.
As different users has different color requirements for their brand the files must easy to customize the colors. I currently guide the users to manually change the colors of the shapes individually and it somewhat... |
I envy the cup of coffee that gets to kiss your sleepy lips awake every cold and bitter morning
This particular design (words) will be put as a photo in a mug which I will be gifting to my beloved. This mug will be printed with thermo (heat) sensitive color which will be translucent black in normal condition, but when... |
I have Illustrator cs6. I would like to make a path from selected vertices (anchor points) in different objects created with the pen tool. Is this possible? All the path-from-selection methods I've seen on this site seem to be for Photoshop.
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Is there a way to block the movement of a layer in photoshop and still be able to do editing in the same layer?
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I use the Option + [ and ] keyboard shortcuts to select layers in Photoshop's layers panel, but it skips hidden layers. Is it possible at all to select these via the keyboard?
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I'm trying to add a thick, comic-book style outline to text using the sketch and toon rendering effect in C4D.
When the outline is set to a high thickness it becomes apparent that it is drawn based on the centre of the edge.
Is there any way to set the outline to 'outside' or even better, mask it behind the letters so ... |
I'm using Adobe Fireworks CS6. The latest version
I'm missing a very helpful tool in CS6 is text editor window.
I have also worked on Fireworks CS3 and it has the text editor.
How can I import the text editor from CS3 to CS6?
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I design a great deal of simple single page web items for sales or email. I often find I run into issues with headlines and my desired line breaks at different media widths.
For example, I could have a headline such as:
Our New thingamabob is the best thing since sliced bread!
With absolutely no attention to line br... |
Lately we've been slammed we decided to out-source projects that a few designers would provide source files to. Per the initial contract terms and requirements with a spec delivery sheet are agreed upon. The expectations are noted and an initial brief meeting is setup to deliver the source files, etc. etc. and it is ... |
There are lots of pictures of an RGB colorspace atlas designed by Tauba Auerbach: http://www.designboom.com/art/tauba-auerbach-rgb-colorspace-atlas/.
I wonder if there are such things in stock somewhere? I don't mean authors originals but probably there are some analogues? Maybe it's called something another than "colo... |
I am saving a file (rich in text and photos, 15 artboards) as a PDF. I finished it yesterday and exported it. Got a 4.9 MB file. Fine. This morning I noticed a Typo. Corrected it (Changed no photo, nothing, only corrected the typo) and saved as to PDF again (Using the exact same settings. They are a preset I have been ... |
I've got a set of pictures of a group of people that were taken on a tripod. Some of the people moved between pictures, and I want to extract a common background so I can combine the backgrounds to reduce noise, and clone people between pictures so that each person's best shot is shown in a common picture. However, I'... |
so I'm having problems figuring out a stroke issue. Below is an image of what I am referring to.
Essentially, I want to create a brush that I can use on strokes so that no matter the shape, when I use it, I have 3 horizontal lines applied as the stroke.
At the moment, if I use the pattern brush, the outer corners are ... |
Would greatly appreciate your help. I had a freelance graphic designer create the below logo for me. It is for a higher-end real estate photography and marketing company in the Los Angeles area, and I want the brand to emphasize the use of technology as well as a sophisticated approach (read: wide-tracked sans-serif ty... |
I have two compound paths that seemingly can't be merged together with any of the Pathfinder presets without loss or distortion to the objects.
This image represents the two objects in the Layers panel that have been joined into Compund Path's.
Currently I'm exporting the glyph to SVG by clicking File > Save As, then ... |
I'm trying to follow Google material design guidelines.
I use the same settings for text color but the text is hard to read because in the examples they have an almost white background.
http://www.google.com/design/spec/style/color.html
The standard alpha value for text on a white background is 87%
(#000000). Second... |
I have this sample red image 16"x20", with 1.5" white padding and 4px black border. I created the border in Photoshop using Layer Style Stroke
The print will be on canvas, and the border is to be the cut line. The problem is that the 1.5" white squares in each corner need to be cut out, so that the 4 white sides can b... |
I read many tutorials and found that, hotkey to duplicate layer is Command + J on Mac or Control + J on Windows.
My question is: If I don't remember this hotkey, how can I do this manual. (By clicking icon or go to menu and submenu ...)
Thanks :)
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I used a 3D Box Generator for Photoshop, and was able to create some boxes with it. These boxes were shaped in the form of Software Boxes, while I require Customized Dimensions Boxes, which currently I'm trying to create with Protomissume Software.
This software creates a box with no Reflection, and I disabled shadows... |
I'd like to insert perfect arrows (the sort you can make using Inkscape: straight, symmetric tips, of customizable width and length, etc.) into images in GIMP. At the moment the closest thing to this I can do is by holding down "shift" whilst using the PaintBrush tool which just creates straight lines (with no arrowhea... |
I'm currently using GIMP to add text captions and lines into a screenshot. The problem is that once I finished one caption I couldn't add any more lines (using the Paint Brush tool). If I close the GIMP window and reopen it, I can add more lines with no problem, but as soon as I start adding captions these dotted boxes... |
Could I do this? For example, if I was making a new logo, I would save the psd, it'd create a new folder called Avatar, and in that it would save the psd and the PNG.
Would that be possible?
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I have an image and I want to move this image to my psd file. I have two ways to do this.
this is my first solution I often do from very first time I use photoshop. I drag image file directly into my psd file. I often see that this image will be resize base on my psd file if this image is too large and at the corner o... |
Hello, I was wondering what it takes to make this blurred and blended type of multi colored gradient in photoshop? Any help is greatly appreciated!
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I'm trying to fill a layer with an image using a shape as a layer mask. I would like to have the inner shadow I added to the shape show once I fill it with an image. However, as expected, the image covers it. I tried with an image fill but I'm not able to control what part of the image shows within the shape. Any ideas... |
Can anyone identify this font (font used for the title "'Allo 'Allo") or a suitable substitute ?
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Bringhurst writes that small caps need to be designed to visually match the standard capitals of a font, so that the resulting mixed caps look uniform and balanced; and that purely geometrically generated small caps can only be a parody. For a long time it was obvious to me that "faux small caps" are a mistake that wou... |
I have placed an image about 1000px*800px into Illstrator and I mask it with a box of 500px*500px now the content boundaries of the image is annoying me when positioning it with smart guide or with the align tool. it always align and keep track to the bigger content which is hidden or masked not the small mask.
my ques... |
How can I create a static image that conveys morphing from one side to another?
E.g., in the following image composited of three shots of the same woman in different positions I want something like a morph trail from one to the other, except that of course it must be blurred or staggered because I want a static, not an... |
I have created a complex 3d style logo with transparency and other effects in adobe illustrator and later save as SVG file format. However, due to complexity of the logo illustrator or SVG failed to produced a perfect images. Now, I want to know that does SVG supports 3D & complex shapes or it should only be used for 2... |
I was wondering if it is possible to model a car with only the front, back and side reference images in 3DS Max?
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If I have a gradient, know color a (primary) and b (secondary), how would I go about reversing said gradient so color a instead transitions into an equivalent alpha that when layered over a pure background of color b would producing the starting gradient.
To further elaborate, say I have this gradient:
And I want to s... |
I'm specially interested in the flowers in different colors.
Can they be achieved using a filter?
Image Source: Robbi Robbins.
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I've been asked to create several images to look like ships from various science fiction series. I've read a bit about copyright laws, and I know there's a thing called substantial similarity, but I'm unclear as to how this works. I'm not actually copying the source work, but I'll be using it as a reference. I've been ... |
I have met this situation, and because I just learn photoshop so I don't know how to solve this.
I have a psd file contains some layers. Those layers have grouped together. Then I draw a graphic (in my case is an eclipse). AFAIK, when I draw a new graphic object, photoshop will put automatically new object in new layer... |
I am not a graphic design student but digital painiting intrigues me quite a lot. I have been watching online lessons of it and have finally decided to buy a pen tablet. I want to pursue digital painiting as a hobby.
Budget is not a constraint for me (owing to the hige price difference between Bamboo and Intuous) but ... |
In astronomical publications that use proper typesetting, the magnitude of an object is written like this:
The m has the same x position as the comma.
How is this done in Indesign CC2014? I'm new to typesetting and I have no idea how to google this. I'd appreciate your help.
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I've got a group of objects which shall serve as a template. I need to be able to resize the group but keep some sub-elements fixed to constrain the template.
Lets say I want to resize the object on the image below. The green area and "window title" should never change in size. Resizing should only affect the grey area... |
I have a slight of a problem here.
This is the logo I would like to convert from 2d to 3d
After that I followed all the instructions as per described in the following link :
http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-a-3D-print-from-a-2D-drawing/#step2
However as I opened my file in OpenSCAD, the "P" and "e" were not hollow... |
I am about to design an IOS 8 app for the very first time.
I've been a designer for 5 years now, both on Photoshop and Illustrator, but I never got the change to design an app. I am looking for some guidelines.
My questions are: Which program should I use? Photoshop or Illustrator? I am much more comfortable on Photos... |
I have read some posts and see many advantages of using vector images when compared to raster images:
They can be zoomed or scaled at any ratio.
File-size efficiency. Because vector image only identified by mathematical descriptions rather than for each pixel.
It can be used for designing logos or magazines, because y... |
I am a hobbyist and I like comics - to read them, and eventually to write them but it didn't happen yet.
Maybe my question is not specific enough, but I am almost obsessed with inking comics, partly because I haven't found the right way to do it.
A while ago my wife has asked me to do a drawing of Korra (of Legend of ... |
I'm wondering how they actually achieved this kind of effect?
image from http://www.thecapitol.pn/
Could you give me some suggestions: are there any techniques to get the same effect? I tried many ways in Photoshop. I have more than 5 years of experience in Photoshop, but my results are not the same?
What should I do... |
I realize this is a super stupid question but I do not know how to create a grey color with the swatch palette. Here is what my current setup is. Isn't there some color scale that is strictly greyscale where you can select something between black and white?
Here is what I am currently working with in terms of options:... |
I want to publish an art book with a major publisher. I need to finish my artwork and then approach publishers, so I cannot ask for printer specifications beforehand. My art is digital, and I want to create it with the option to print it at any common unknown printer.
I understand that for normal purposes it is enough ... |
I am trying to export a .PDF from Adobe InDesign which contains some animated layers in it.
But when I export it as interactive .PDF, the animations are not playing in the .PDF File. It only shows a flat design of the animated .PDF without playing any animations.
When I export it as a .SWF file, the animations play. I ... |
I create a pattern in perspective view , but when I fill my shape by my pattern , I need Move my pattern in my shape .
As I see I can do it by entering position of pixels , the question is Can I move the pattern by using handle ?
this is my pattern
this is my shape when I fill by my pattern
I know I should use this ... |
When using the Effects > Stylize > Round Corners... Illustrator option on shapes I built using Pathinfder and Shape Builder, I'm having a distinct problem with doouble anchor points. Since the effect does not round corners if they consist of multiple anchors, this spoils the effect at multiple places.
Take this shape, ... |
My version of Adobe Photoshop CS6 (standard) doesn't have the options on the animation timeline that appear to be available on all the Photoshop Animation tutorials. Onion skinning, different layers etc all not available.
The option in Photoshop menu > Layers to have a new video layer isn't there at all. I am on the c... |
In order to teach a game to kids, I would like to make a chart. Since english is not my mother language, I'm just asking for the proper name of the template I should use to display my data.
It's a construction game, with tons of raw materials, you collect it at a cost. i.e. : wood, stone, metals, etc.
You can use this... |
When I enter values in free transform mode, there is a bunch of forms that indicate position of the object (x, y, etc...) I found that I can't add, subtract or multiply values in this form. It's very frustrating.
Is it impossible to do calculations in these forms? Or am I missing something?
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Please see the below image for examples of what I would like to do. On the left is the hand-drawn path and on the right is what I would like the result to be.
Essentially, I would like freehand drawings to be totally constrained to:
A set grid (larger than the brush width)
Straight lines of 0, 45 and 90 degrees only.
... |
I want a pen that draws at 9 points spaced in a grid spaced about 90% of the page. In svg or similar vector format. The idea is to be able to make nice tile-able drawings.
I have tried photoshop, inkscape, sketch-pro. None seem to have this feature. I recall a drawing program ages ago that had this nice feature, but ca... |
Anybody can explain how to import the PSD files into Flash CS6.
I have tried this but i could not import the transparent image with the quality. It is getting pixellated and with the outline from the background.
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This has happened to me a few times, in bigger or smaller scale, and I think it happens to many of us.
We as designers have the pleasure/curse of leaving quite a bit of us in every design.
When you have a client who, you feel, undermines your design decisions, how do keep that from affecting what you are doing?
Rel... |
I have a problem (which I had previously on completely another Ubuntu and older versions of Gimp [now I have the latest - 2.8.10]). When I open PSDs with transparent layers, they get displayed in a wrong color and kind of shrinked.
I did set image mode to RGB. In Photoshop it displays properly with RGB color profile.
H... |
Thanks for any help in advance. I just need to know the font in this image!
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I am used to a A4 paper of course. I have already saved up for the medium sized Intuos, but the large (if you do the match) is cheaper for its size.
I don't know which to buy, should I save up even more money for the large because of the math and more work space, or will it feel a little too big if I am used to A4, har... |
On a website I'm working on, the design team wants a large background image. Uncompressed, it is several hundred kilobytes (both in JPG and PNG). Most parts of the background image are blurred, but some parts are very sharp.
Now we're looking for the best way to compress the image so that those blurred parts don't take... |
Before drawing, I want to draw all guides for my layout. For example, I have a guide line named A already. After that, I want to have another guide named B parallel with guide A and at 50px distance from it.
I have three solutions:
Draw line B and by "some way", I can see the current distance directly when I'm drawi... |
Maybe this question seems easily but I don't know why it doesn't obvious in my current Photoshop settings.
I select shape tool and draw somethings (such as circle, rectangle ...). I see at this step, I see properties panel for change shape attributes:
I select another layers (for doing some work, so I lost focus c... |
Suppose I want to take the dimensions of an object of negligible width on a flat surface from a photograph and am able to calibrate in the sense that I know the distance per pixel of some line drawn on the object via doing real world measurements.
How could I go about getting the other dimensions without manually fin... |
I have seen lots of images like this which used a slight shadow very nicely as if the sides are folded into each other but I don't know how to create such thing. I'm not looking for a full tutorial. Just a few tips would be fine. How do you go about making something like this?
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Say I have a file DSC_0377.jpg. I can open a this with Illustrator, make
changes, then choose File Save As Save as type
Adobe PDF
and it will be saved as DSC_0377.pdf, as desired. However if I
open an Illustrator Template
File Place the same JPG
File Save As Save as type
Adobe PDF
it will be saved as Untitled-1.pdf. ... |
I'm trying to follow this tutorial:
http://www.psdvault.com/photo-effect/create-dramatic-meteor-and-burning-city-effect-in-photoshop/
In the first part where it says to:
"Add the following image adjustment layers as clipping mask to this sky layer"
I added 4 new image adjustment layers, and made them all clipping masks... |
Anyone have any idea what font this is? I've looked all over but can't find it anywhere!
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Can someone please tell me what font this this?
I have been looking for it on the internet and could not find the exact name of the font, it would be very good if someone could point out what the name of it is.
Thank you,
Gantig
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I am writing a book. I want to do all stages myself. So, I bought Adobe-Indesign CC 2014 to design the layout of the pages. I've watched some video online to desgin my layout.
I tried to redesign another book's design. you can see a photo of that book here.
So my questions are:
Is it possible to learn Adobe-Indesign CC... |
I have a line drawing in PNG format, from which I need to create an SVG.
I need to create the svg path from right to left, left to right, center to sides OR sides to center. Here’s an example:
I’m need this for a jQuery plugin (lazy line painter) that animates this line drawing in the sequence of the path provided in ... |
I'm not sure Inkscape can do that but I did a sketch of a sticker and I'd like to visualize it on a cylinder object (bottle).
I know Inkscape is not about 3d (even if you can do some things).
What I would like is have my model on the left and a cylinder on the right, and with some tricks moving the model on the left wo... |
The document here: http://www.bohemiancoding.com/sketch/support/documentation/08-styling/7-reflection.html mentioned the "reflection" tool, but it doesn't tell where it is, and I can't find it.
So where is it?
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So i know I can use brush simulate a brush stroke from thin-thick-thin
and thick to thin with the fade option
.
Is there a way to simulate a brush stroke so the path will have thick end points and thin middle. I mean with out a tablet of some sort.
In addition, can i brush a path starting from the end point and no... |
can anyone provide me with a similar font to press style serif, just not as condensed?
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I'm looking for a small pixel font that has western, european and cyrillic characters, something similar in look to the SMALL FONTS font found in windows (around 6/7px)
It's for a retro looking videogame so must be small clean pixels.
Any suggestions?
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I opened an image from the internet in Illustrator.
Right after, when I selected the paintbrush tool, it turned into a circle with a line through it, implying that I couldn't draw.
Does anyone know what happened and how I can fix this?
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I've noticed there's a slight gap between shapes and lines in which bucket-fill is applied (to the enclosed areas found therein) and the colour fill in Inkscape, is there any way of removing this gap (besides the older-fashion manual way by manipulating the borders of the bucket fill, which is very tedious)?
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I'm using GIMP to prepare this PNG file for vectorization in Inkscape. I've noticed that the vectorization process makes removing these lines far more tedious after the vectorization than before. Removing these lines by using the "Select by Color" tool leaves transparent pixels and I'd like to know how I can give these... |
I have a graphic in photoshop that is red, it's two hands that are bent to make a heart. The graphic is red and a single graphic. Is it possible to change it that the right hand color is different from the left hand color? For example, can I change it the right hand to be blue and the left hand to be green?
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