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There is a line of text I`d like to transform as a path and then convert to a selection to perform an effect:
The font I use makes letter intersections inevitable.
The intersections between letters are outside the resulting selection.
The method I use now is Path → Path To Selection. What do I need to do to convert pr... |
I'm developing a captcha and for this I'm looking for a font which fulfils the following needs:
Monospace (all glyphs, not only letters)
Basic latin characters (a-zA-Z0-9 and punctuation marks)
Maybe additional symbols
Maximum ~300 glyphs (small)
Free to use in commercial web project
I'm mainly interested in lightwei... |
I have layer with a Ferrari placed on top of a layer with a tree.
Is there a way to let pixels of the tree pass through the corresponding pixels of the Ferrari, depending on the tree's pixels luminosity?
For example, if pixels of the tree are very close to black (as shown in the GIF), delete the corresponding pixels on... |
So I found this image that I really like, and I want to isolate the individual components of the picture into individual images. How would I isolate each individual component?
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I'm hoping the community can help me. I'm having a color disparity issue with the JPGs exported from HTML.
I followed the steps outlined from this thread: How to export large amount of objects to separate images in InDesign? to produce an image folder of individual JPGs with their document crops/masks.
The problem is, ... |
When I design a calendar in Illustrator, I create lots of groups consisting of numbers. I grouped by month. When pressing center on the alignment button, all objects are centered, not by group. How do I center all groups?
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From Why You Should Never Center Align Paragraph Text:
Left aligned text is easier to read than centered text for paragraphs. This is because when you center your text, the starting place of each line changes. This forces your users to work harder to find where each line begins to continue reading. Without a straight ... |
I'm trying to get 'title goes here...' to wrap around the pink circle - the type is on a path with it being aligned centre.
However, at either end of the title it moves away from the pink circle rather than being tight to it like it is in the middle.
Why does it do this? How do I resolve it?
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I am re-designing a small shampoo bag package for a company using the old design format by the former designer. But there are paths that I could not select, and if I use Ctrl + Y they are not visible anymore. Does anyone know what these paths are ?
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I would like help identifying the font below (used by Manda in the Naruto manga, chapter #170). I cannot seem to find any font that replicates this one below (having looked through a number of font sites).
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What I'm Trying To Do: I have about 80 pngs of "cards", and I want to paste first of all a black border with rounded corners over top of the images, and then have the outside parts of the rounded corners be "transparent color".
What Works But Painfully: One thing that works is having a "template" file open in a separat... |
In the image below, there are four colors. Three of them are opaque, and two of those opaque ones are behind a semi-transparent color. I want to find the exact hex value and opacity of that color.
Bonus question: figure out which website this image is from.
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I have some pictures of products that are on a plain white background. I used multiply to remove the background cleanly, then I wanted to put the objects onto a new background that is dark in colour.
However, it doesn't show up as well on a black background. Is there a way to maintain the clean background removal effec... |
I'd like to create a dotted spiral with progressively larger dots, exactly like the one shown in the picture below or also in this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmd1wBNE7P0
However, the problem with this spiral is, that the distance between the dots is bigger for smaller dots than for the larger dots (the d... |
How can you change human pose into mannequin like in these images? And what tools will be required to do that and how?
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I made a very simple house in Illustrator, placing each of it's elements in it's own independent layer as follows:
Door
Windows
Roof
House
I then used Illustrator's "Asset Export" to export all these layers as individual SVG's - so I could then import and re-compose them back together as my House image on a web-pag... |
I am working on a book someone else created. The first page in the document has what looks like an empty text frame. The text intended for that first page begins on the next page, leaving the first page blank. If I drag the text box off the first page, the text is visible on the pasteboard. When I drag it back on, the ... |
So, I have this image of a floorplan
And I want to use Inkscape to convert the lines to SVG paths.
If I just import, Inkscape will just embed an image:
<g
inkscape:label="Layer 1"
inkscape:groupmode="layer"
id="layer1">
<image
... etc
There some tutorials online, such as this one, which reco... |
It is common to find white logos on a (some variant of) red background, e.g. Quora, Pinterest, Adobe, Swiss, Lego, etc. Somewhat less common is a white logo on a blue background, e.g. (Facebook) Messenger.
Why are other dark colors, like dark green or purple, not as common to use as a background for a white logo? Is it... |
This sounds really simple, but I'm so stuck I'm needing some help here to think about this.
I'm creating a book kind of document and needed guides for my Master Pages, so I started making them on a left page, and then wanted to copy it to the right one so they could be on the same place but both on the left and right t... |
I am looking at the Cadbury Dairy Milk colors on this link and obviously the colors are well matched and complementary.
So I try to generate something similar using a tool like Adobe color wheel but I really can't seem to be able to do it.
Any help to figure it out will be very appreciated.
NB: There are other question... |
I have to restore a document from a picture in GIMP for printing.
The picture taken from the document is of moderate quality. The document is just black text on a white sheet of paper.
menu-> colors-> Levels sets the white and black for the whole picture.
However, the lighting is not uniform over the whole page, the "... |
In Inkscape v1.1 on Ubuntu, I can apply a mesh gradient to an object's fill. Cool! However, even when I set the color for all the node handles in the mesh, I still get what I can only describe as "hotspots": places where the mesh gradient doesn't seem to be responding to the colors that I've set.
In this example, for ... |
The artboard is 360 by 360 pixels, export as PNG at 72 ppi and Facebook says the image is too small, please use another...
Export the same file at 300 ppi and Facebook blows up image and it doesn't fit in the cover photo space, not even close... a picture is below.
I don't even know what to google to figure out what is... |
I want to make a design like this, which has the same pattern of point distance
but... my design like this, where the distance is not the same. please help me... thanks before
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Using Inkscape 1.1 I have a triangle aligned with a circle and want to have 4 copies of the triangle at each side of the circle. When using the Rotate Copies Live Path Effect and snapping the origin to the circle midpoint, the triangles east and west get deformed and are far away from the circle.
How should I use the R... |
I have the following image which was shot during golden hour. Unfortunately, the clouds did not co-operate so the lighting ended up looking very bland.
Are there filters out there that can simulate sun rays hitting part of the tree? Something like this would be useful.
Note: I have PS, LR, Luminar AI
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i'm in the process of making a deck of flashcards, there's around a hundred of them. the image on each card and it's corresponding back is different.
what is the most efficient way to prep my cards for printing on the office's xerox machine?
should I be laying them out on multiple A3 artboards? is there an efficient me... |
Does someone know how i can create such a beautiful hypnotic dotted spiral in adobe illustrator?
Many thanks!
Best regards,
Silvan
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I am starting out drawing some basic animations in adobe animate. what I am wondering is
what is recommended for drawing changes in the animation like how many frames in between should I skip to achieve something that doesn't zoom past too fast. to more refine what I am trying to ask
How would I go about drawing a simp... |
I inherited a template from another person that has (essentially) two layers: an art background and a color filled border on top of the art. The border is a complex shape that I can't easily recreate by myself if it were to be deleted.
Is there a way to teach Photoshop that I'd like the border layer to be respected as ... |
Can you help a novice like me with my problem? You see i had generated my first awesome logo for myself with my initials HV. So i draw an idea for 4 days (Please see image below). when I'm happy with it i started generating it on digital using illustrator. The problem is that while i was browsing google, i tackled this... |
I tried to use the offset path on appearance panel as taught in this video
which is great, but i know if i have clipping mask, it cant be stroked. Whats the workaround on this workflow?
As shown in my example. A star is masked inside the cup, thus the group doesn't stroke the cup, i also have other things in the group.... |
I want to take a screenshot for a website(images in the website) in MacOS and use the image in other places/devices. what color profile should I use? I can use:
P3 color because my monitor is 99% P3 and it is widest?
sRGB color because most of monitor/phone screen has a 100% of sRGB?
use color profile that comes from ... |
I'm trying to write in Hebrew, which is written from right to left. I'm using Illustrator CC 2015.
The problem is when I try to write anything that is not a letter, like a dot, comma, slash, etc…
These all come at the beginning of the sentence, instead of at the end, where I want it.
This issue only appears if I want t... |
I'm trying to write in Hebrew, which is from right to left, on Illustrator CS6.
This is not working, and all my words are written backwards.
Everywhere I look it says to enable Indic options. However, Illustrator CS6 does not have this option.
Any idea how I can either install indic options or find some other way to wr... |
Question: How can we make the following symbol in Inkscape software? The color is not important, it can be just default color. But the look (position of the letters, their layout etc.) is important.
UPDATE
I have gotten this far, using the following:
Font Family: Palatino Linotype
Font Style: Normal (this dropdown ha... |
Ok so follow up my previous question on how to create a group stroke with mask here.
I followed your steps & basically solves my problem. OK let's just say i done all that, then my boss said oh lets add spikes to the cup, ( well in real illustration it could be more complex case )
So i did changes to the original layer... |
I have a square image with a ragged edge: the transparent pixels outside the image "weave" in and out towards the image center, within some unknown range. This range may be different for each side. In Photoshop, is there a technique that would crop the image to the largest size possible with no transparent pixels remai... |
I'm experiencing a color difference between an original psd file and the brush created with that same file. File is a Grayscale + 2 pantone file where only pantone have information. Grayscale is only to avoid impossibility to import multichannel files in Ai. Can anyone explain why and a way to go around this please ?
A... |
This is the illusion I'm trying to recreate.
As seen below I've tried to use the blend tool but the increments are even which ruins the perspective. I did see a tutorial (time stamped link) where you can manipulate the spine and use the handles to adjust the spacing but it doesn't seem possible with this particular sh... |
The traditional model for humanist typography has been the letterforms of a right-handed scribe with a broad nib pen. Are there any humanist typefaces inspired by the letter forms of a left-handed scribe with a broad nib pen?
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I'm creating a visual programming language and I'm trying to find a suitable icon that would let the user know that the component that is being used represents a variable (as in "variable in a programming language").
The very first thing I thought was to use $ (as in the required symbol to declare any variable in PHP),... |
I was working on something in indesign and I think I might have accidentally pressed something on my keyboard and toggled a different view. The background on the software changed colour and when I try to change to Overprint preview or to show the guides nothing changes on the document. Also previously I could see image... |
If I draw rounded rectangle and rescale it
it will change non-uniformly. This is because it is not Bezier curve, but some algorithmic shape.
How to convert it to Bezier curve? (There was such command in Corel Draw).
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Gimp beginner here! I'm trying to design a logo with a new font I just bought, but I'm having trouble. I've figured out how to add text, I've changed the color to be different than the background, the text is on the top layer, and the new font is detected (I found posts related to all these issues while trying to solve... |
So, what I want to do is to be able to create a bakground with repeated text for some other block. So, this is an example:
I did this by creating a layer of text and repeating it. Then I expand all of it and I use the pathfinder to crop it for some blocks, but this is not performant and it makes it really slow.
How ca... |
I have a physical catalog of wallpapers. I took pictures of each and want to convert them into pdf to share over WhatsApp. Each catalog has about 80 images and each one is about 25mb in size. How can I compress it down so that I can fit about 70 or 80 images into a single pdf?
Or is there some website I can use where c... |
I just want to know where the smooth tool might be in Inkscape or if it has similar tool to smooth strokes AFTER they are put down.
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So I have these two panorama shots:
They were taken with a GoPro max on a tripod. The tripod was in the same place for both shots - the only difference between the two shot is the direction that the light is coming from.
My thought had been when I took them that I turn both images into layers in Photoshop and then ad... |
I just need to do the same process that was done in
this post,
but in GIMP.
I can add noise to the image in gimp, but I don't know which sliders should I move to get the wanted effect.
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I'm trying to work out what font my Firefox is using for its system-ui CSS property value, which is used on pages that specify system-ui in their font stack (specifically, I first saw it on my website here, but I don't think that's too relevant). Here is a screenshot:
It does not appear to match any font on my comput... |
My startup's logo (left) looks very similar to Google Colab's logo (right). I don't think it would cause any confusion as my company operates in a completely different market. However, I am getting a few "looks like Google Colab's logo" from my friends. What do you guys think? Should I change it?
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I have following expression
Math.round(effect("Slider Control")("Slider"))
on a text layer to control the text with the slider and be able to make a countdown.
How can I make this in "tenner" steps, so when I add two keyframes with "300" and "0", it should countdown, but in "tenner" steps, so 300, 290, 280
Thanks..
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I really cant explain but theres a 2000s digital camcorder vibe in the photo and ive been trying to figure out how to be able to imitate it maybe at least in photoshop? wouldnt wanna buy a camcorder :(
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How do I fix this spacing irregularity? There's a visible difference between those blue and red marked spaces.
Can anyone help me out there?
Thank you
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I am starting with affinity designer and I want to join different objects to create one shape. The objects I am working are these:
I thought that selecting all the objects and using the geometry function add would result in the intended shape, but the outcome is this:
As you can see the shape is a bit weird. There ar... |
The top knowledge I have in animations comes from Powerpoint presentations and I am looking to improve upon this. I really admire the way animated educational videos are made by several channels like Kurzgesagt, Science Clic etc. and want to be able to make something like that in the future. Any suggestions on how I ca... |
I created a circle with blurred edges by making an ellipse selection and filling it with pencil, brush Pixel (3x3). This is how it looks.
I would like to create a star with a similar style but I failed at creating blurred edges.
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Although I am an experienced designer, there is something I always struggle with and I feel it is something that subconsciously makes me hate working with or creating vector art and graphics. I struggle with gradients and the way they work or the way I think they work. Maybe I don't understand Illustrator but that's ho... |
I have an animation I created in Adobe Animate I was wondering is there a fast way to slow the animation down if it plays too fast. I have my animation going about every 15 frames unless I wanna speed it up in the middle somewhere but the whole overall animation is playing back too fast.
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I have an SVG loaded into Illustrator. I perform a selection on the illustration, go to File -> Export Selection, and export the selected content as a PNG and it looks exactly like my selection, which is what I want.
When I use File -> Export Selection and choose to export the selection as an SVG, however, the exported... |
I'm designing a cardgame with about 20 different cards. Every card has a unique text on it and they all share the same cardframe that i'm designing. I'm trying to think of a clever way to make some sort of template for printing the cards. I'm thinking 9 cards will fit on a A4 sheet of paper so i could make new photosho... |
I would like to identify the font – or a close match – used on this form issued by the French administration in the 70s:
I gave a try at several online font identifiers (myfonts.com and 2 others) which did not yield anything close to be useful.
Using screening of font collections I could find somewhat matching fonts, ... |
I’m trying to make a logo with a T. I’ve drawn a couple of lines through the upper part of the T to be able to color it in different colors. When I then try to remove the lines which are going through the T, it removes major parts of the letter, not just the lines I want to remove.
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When I use "Wavelet Decompose" to make a frequency separation on Gimp, I use, let's say 3 levels, which generate 3 layers of detail. But IMHO they are too many (On Ps I am used to having only 1 layer for details)
So I have tried different methods to merge these layers into only 1.
The first method is leaving on only th... |
I'm not sure if this is the correct website for my type of question, if it isn't please direct me to where it is. I want to graph an OHLC chart using some graphing software, now I know it is similar to a Candlestick chart, however my issue is the horizontal widths of the open and closes of the graph,
Plotting a Candle... |
I have a vector image with multiple layers, but I want to cookie-cutter-style trim the whole image, so I'm only left with neighboring objects and no overlapping.
Here's the initial image:
And here I'm showing what kind of objects each layer contains:
After I select all objects and do a pathfinder trim I get these art... |
I have started learning Illustrator since a while back and one thing is bothering me and stopping me from designing stuff. Also I am not native English speaking so I am having a hard time to find the correct search term.
I'll try my best. I have these two lines, one is from a circle and one is just a straight line I dr... |
I removed the background of a picture in Photoshop and wanted to keep working on it in Illustrator, but when I placed the PNG the transparent background completely turned into white. I don't want to turn this picture into vector and remove white because that's not the effect I want in my design. I don't know what I'm d... |
I've selected a bunch of shapes and outlines for a pattern. I've gone to Object > Group, to group them all together, dragged them to the swatches panel to create a new swatch, and then after double-clicking that swatch, it brings up the Pattern Options panel. After approving the settings and clicking 'Done', the patter... |
The lines of the circle and line interact perfectly but when I expand and divide it looks like the stroke setting throws it off and the shapes don't meet perfectly?
I am zoomed in a lot so not sure if this is the best I can get it?
ZOOMED OUT
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How to create a keyboard shortcut like if you type a paragraph and need to insert a symbol like this â, cause our language mostly like using some symbols like that. How to create a keyboard shortcut so you don't have to search again on Glyphs.
Thanks
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How to create 3d Grid for this boxes behind the black rectangle? I am using Adobe Illustrator.
I tried create isometric grid for it, but it didn't fit.
Thanks for help
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I am looking for subjective opinions on whether or not to match the capitalization of my (nascent) companies logo when writing its name in text.
Our company is called TheCoin, we are building a cryptocurrency called "THE". Our logo design uses the name THECoin. I've found in written text, the form "TheCoin" feels eas... |
is this done with design software or is it a genuine glitch/ai generated image? any help would be immensely appreciated <3
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I have got a program in which same database has to be accessed multiple time and single data has to be used at multiple points. Proccess 1 uses raw data 1 and db 1. Process 2 uses results from process 1 and raw data 1 and db 1 again.
I am concerned if having a solid line would represent there to be a flow from that dat... |
So I'm having a problem I've never had before. I have objects that border the edges of the art board. Illustrator is trying to include the contents of those objects that are outside of the art board when I try to export to PNG.
This is the document:
This is the file its trying to save:
How do I fix this? TIA
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I am new to UX and want to start creating illustrations for modern websites. Please help me have a check list to prepare my self to be able to create illustrations like the below.
What are the requirements, what's the best software to use, any courses that can be suggested and any tips for a beginner? I am currently do... |
My aim is to build a color palette for a dark mode website based on an image I've chosen. I would like to know if there is a specific technique or process to pick, among all the colors, the right colors for my project. Which criteria do I have to follow in order to select them ?
For example, I already know that I need ... |
Okay, so I've been trying to create a grid, but so far I can't seem to get it right.
Basically, I want a grid, that covers each pixel in an image. Like, each pixel has a black outline, sort of. So far, I've come up with this, by creating a pattern. But, as you can see, the individual pixels aren't outlined, but a big b... |
I used these options.
Fuzzy Select Tool
Add Alpha Channel
Antialiasing
Feather edges
Draw mask
And created this image:
But I made a mistake at some point and didn't notice it, masking in the plant.
I'd like to undo this masking so that the plant is shown again. Can I specifically do this somehow? Undoing the eff... |
I would like to be able to use the pencil tool to draw lines angled exactly 2 units to the right for every 1 unit down, at angles of about 27 degrees from vertical or horizontal.
The straight-line rule using shift-ctrl draws in increments of 15 degrees. Is there a way to change this default so shift-ctrl draws at my d... |
I am wanting to change the colour of something I used the live paint bucket on. I also have other paths that have the same colour fill and am wanting to change their colour as well. I went to select > same > fill colour but it has been greyed out. Is this not an option when using the live paint bucket tool?
There is al... |
I'm fairly new to Illustrator, and trying to figure out how to create an arc that doesn't have the bottom line that you get from using the Minus Front shape mode.
For example, if I start with a circle like this:
And then either add a rectangle or just draw a simple line through it like this:
Using the Minus Front sha... |
I need to embed a jpg image into a pdf, but the output result appears with blurry image, I use these settings for importing
and these for exporting
and this is the result.
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I am scanning a grayscale document using my EPSON ES-500W. When scanned in as Color I received a 4.7MB file. If I convert it to Grayscale in Photoshop and save the file it shrinks minimally to 4.4MB. The same file scanned as Grayscale directly from the scanner is smaller at 1.7MB.
I opened the original 1YIFEI_EM1700_00... |
I am using Inkscape 1.1 (2021-05-23) to create some templates for a reMarkable 2 Paper Tablet. When I import an SVG into the canvas reusing pre-existing work, the colors are retained. However, the next SVG I import shows up properly, but the previous imported SVGs change their colors making it so I have to go back thro... |
I'm looking for terms, search keywords, or filter names related to how to do the following:
Let's say you have a photo of a meadow. You also have separate color palette (ex: https://coolors.co/fe5d26-f2c078-faedca-c1dbb3-7ebc89 ) and what you are looking to do is to slightly modify the photo so that it fits the color p... |
I am trying to fill the white space in my art work using live paint. I select all of the art work and click in the space I want it to fill but it seems to only give me the option of filling the little black lines (see images below) instead of the white space around it I want to fill.
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I removed a piece of the art work from the group however when I cut and pasted it outside of the group it looked like this.
I used live paint on the group so I am guessing it has something to do with it in that live paint from what I understand is like an effect and now its been cut out therefore the effect no longer ... |
I have Adobe Photoshop 2020 and I am trying to apply an action to a hair texture. The problem is, I only want the action applied to one of the layers and not all of them. When I complete the action, the layers are merged and the action is placed over them all. Is there a way to apply an action to only one layer?
I have... |
Quiero poner una imagen estática sobre un gif usando gimp pero cuando le doy guardar solo muestra la imagen al final del gif.
I want to put a static image over a gif using gimp but when I give it save it only shows the image at the end of the gif.
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I cannot seem to get this shape with two perfect half circles with the pen tool. How hard is it? I try to avoid using it if possible so unfortunately I am not really proficient at using it. Is there another way of getting this shape? I imported this shape so I can see the anchor points but still I cannot come close to... |
I know, I used the same title from this post, but I want to actually remove the trimmed objects. It seems the trimmed objects are still in the image, when I go to laser-cut the graphic, the trimmed components show up, and register as out of bounds.
Here is the image as I see it in Inkscape:
I would like the hexagons ... |
I am completely new to graphic design and I need to make dashed Cyrillic letters. The file needs to be in '.ttf' format for the end result.
I am attaching a reference picture to what I mean by 'dashed' letters. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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When I got art from an artist the image has these nice sharp lines like the arm below. Notice the sharpness of the black outlines. When I draw it myself, it looks like the line above, much more blurry.
I would say the artist's lines are somewhere between the brush and the pencil tool. Is there a way to draw like this i... |
I have been using GIMP for many years and suddenly the selection outline - dashed line has stopped working.
it does make the selection and I can cut away the invisible selection but I cannot see it.
I toggled it in the view menu and under preferences... nothing.
Also if I convert the selection to a path and try and str... |
In Photoshop, on a transparent layer, I have an area with a black-to-white gradient. I want to turn it to a red-to-white gradient, so that pure black (0,0,0) becomes pure red (255,0,0). In the example below, I would want to turn the top bar into the bottom one.
I don't want to re-draw anything, since the gradient has ... |
I am a first time illustrator who has been working for the last year on colored pencil illustrations for a children's book.
I wanted to have the drawings scanned so that I could send them to an agent. The local print shop employee was not able to do anything about the artwork coming out discolored (yellow/green cast) a... |
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