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I am seeing the font web Means font from https://ux.mailchimp.com/patterns/typography Is there a way to grab this font in any way? font-family: "Means Web",Georgia,Times,"Times New Roman",serif;
I'm a beginner in illustrator and I would like to import this fog .png file in Illustrator and overlay it onto this repetition of X. The problem is that in the faded areas with different opacities the Xs become white. How can I solve this issue? I'll share also what I'm trying to recreate. I even tried with different b...
I've created a smart object to put in my .mp4 video. I've layered an iPhone mockup over it. When I try to Save for Web to create a .gif, it keeps giving me this weird blue background. Even if I select the "Original" tab, it will still output a blue gif. How do I create a gif with colors true to the original video I'm u...
I am trying to create my first text based logo, for a fake website named "Freelance". In theory this website is a common questions and answers website like Stack Overflow. It also has a section for web tutorials. The users of my (fake) website are programmers and designers both asking questions on web design, front end...
This is what I (think I) know: Rich blacks (e.g. 60/40/40/100 CMYK) are to be avoided on small objects like texts, because even the best printing machine may have a slight misalignment, making a specific color or the "rainbow" show up on the edges. (This would be horrible for my specific use case.) 0/0/0/100 risks lo...
I have a text block that I need to center horizontaly, however when it changes, it moves a bit, and I don't quite like it. A similar counter in iPhone countdown app somehow manages to avoid this problem. How would you suggest to handle it? I guess it can be solved with another font, but I like current one and I wonder ...
I'm looking for the font used in the following text: The book in question is Beowulf, ed. A. J. Wyatt, published 1894 at the Cambridge University Press. You can see scans of it here. This looks quite similar to a ''Century'' font, especially the long tail on the 't' that ends vertical and the spurs on letters like d a...
The red and blue objects are each rectangles that have been sheared. I want to delete the parts hanging off that I've circled with the pencil tool. I feel like I need to be using the shape builder tool for this but can't seem to figure out how to do it with that.
I am desperately trying to make a spiral (see picture below) narrowing out at the end. The line should be thick at the beginning and become very thin at the end. It should be a very smooth transition. I tried brushes, which works well but it does unfortunately NOT work with a gradient. And I need to apply a gradient on...
I'm trying to make a somewhat interesting layout for a design course and I'm having trouble. I'm trying to do this: But I want mine to be the number 8 filled with type. So a simple explanation would be I want to fill the shape of a Helvetica Neue "8" with multiple lines of type. I've tried using compound path, but it ...
This is a photo I'm trying to update to modern standard: What I did was go to Levels, and for each color channel I moved the slider from a spot with no information to where the histogram begins. I then used selective color to lower the red in the midtones, then I attempted to correct a newly emerging blueish color by ...
I'm trying to replicate a chain link effect on these 4 rackets and I wanted to add some depth by adding shadows on the intersection. This is a rough idea of what I wanted to create. I did this using a shape that I applied a gradient from black to white and set the transparency to multiply. The issue is that all these ...
I have an 8 bit color code in binary like so (RRRGGGBB): 00011001 I need to be able to convert it into a hex code (e.g FFFFFF). What is the best way to convert an 8 bit color code into hex?
tell application "Adobe Illustrator" tell the current document make new artboard with properties {artboard rectangle:{0, 0, 100, 100}} end tell end tell I found an old way at macscriptor.net, but it raises an error message for Illustrator 2021 version. error "Adobe Illustrator got an error: an Illustrator...
I need to devide A4 sheet on the some parts by 65x50 drawing dotted borders to cut it after printing. As result I need to get printed a4 with lines of cut. How to do that and what tool to use?
I'm trying to make both this text and the image look like it was actually drawn into the 'paper' by hand. Or at least as close to possible. What kind of techniques can I use in Photoshop to do this?
I'm trying to achieve the below outcome of a 3 different layers - vectors created in Illustrator. These vectors I imported in Photoshop as pixels and tried to achieve as shown in the picture by using the path tool and then I created a layer mask on that one I wanted to crop. My problem is that those wavy lines are diff...
I'm working on writing a technical ebook on Adobe Indesign. There are many engineering drawings and smart-arts (in .png format) which I want to include in it. When I export the book as pdf, the images that are included in it show selection around them when clicked. I want to make the image indiscoverable by the user i....
me and my project again, I'm wondering how my design will look if the text follows the curve of the visual anchor of the piece - a 470 pt Helvetica "8". However, after creating outlines for the symbol(I tried expanding, I guess the feature has the same purpose) and Object>Text Wrap>Make ; the type doesn't conform to th...
I'm using InDesign CS5 and I am editing a book. I know I was wanting to try out different margins, so I must have messed it up there. My Chapter 1 styles page has different margins from a lot of the other chapters in my book; I've synchronized everything diligently all along... I can't figure out a way to get the margi...
I'm facing an issue with my Adobe photoshop 2014 and 2015. When I press Ctrl and click on the thumbnail on a layer from layer pallet then it selects the whole boundary of the image. It's not selecting my particular areas. It's the same when I am pressing Ctrl + Shift + Click or Ctrl + Shift + I + Click. I need to selec...
I'm trying Effects > Pixelate > Crystallize to create borders like this (something like which we can do with Wrinkle or Crystallize tool): But even after applying the effect, I can't see any difference for my shape (I used a rectangle with solid fill). I tried increasing the amount, but still no effect. I can see the ...
What is the font used for the word Komplete in these images. Most of their logos are done using popular fonts like Trade Gothic etc, but it's been hard to find one with a K, M and P like that. https://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/ was of little help, so were other font identification services such as fontsquirrel's matc...
I am trying to change the font of "x" in the figure below. I selected it with "Select" (the arrow icon) and then clicked on "Create and Edit Text" (the A icon) and I think the thin dashed line around x means that it is selected. Then I expected to be able to adjust its properties in the text toolbar on top, but to no a...
I made a logo commission a few months ago And while I designed the images myself I used the Segoe Script font for the words. I’ve only recently read that it’s only legal for PERSONAL USE. What should I do? Is there any way to pay for the royalty so I can use it legally or should I redesign the logo using a legal font a...
I am trying to import an svg into illustrator solely to make a file conversion so that I can use the vector in after effects. Here is the preview of the svg: Here is what it appears as when I import into illustrator Some of those characters are cut off, I thought maybe it has something to do with too much geometry to...
Which Unicode symbol that normally looks like two lines crossed together properly represents multiplication and what do the other Unicode characters that look like it mean? And bonus points, how do I properly insert that character on Mac? Here are some candidates: × U+00D7 Multiplication Sign ✕ U+2715 Multiplication X
I need to create a large index for a book in Indesign. I have tried the Indesign Index feature, but the problem is that I need each term to capture multiple variants under one term, such as singular and plural (and as the book is in in Czech language, many other inflected forms) and I have not found a way to do that wi...
I have a notes/drawing drawn with light and thin color pencil. How do I increase the thickness of the color pen or pencil handwriting or the drawing and make it heavy weight and bold? How do I make my handwriting look more like a picture? What do I do if I want to change the shape of my handwriting? For example, I have...
Basically I want to understand how everything works in respective of designers when it comes to mobile or web Development. I do not want to be designer I want to how things work so that I can work better with them
I've started using Figma's beta "Change to" feature and it's amazing but I just noticed that when using it on elements that have fixed positioning while scrolling, it's not working as expected. It works perfectly before beginning the scroll (see beginning part of linked video below). But then after scrolling and initia...
A client has just asked me if we can package their new album as in this photograph: I've never seen one of these before. Web searches not helping too much. Looks like the outer box is made of plastic. Hard to tell from this angle whether it's square (which would be logical given the contents) or portrait in format (lo...
I am trying to PhotoShop decals for a vending machine going into my works new office building but cant make any sense of this blueprint let alone measure its dimensions accurately into photoshop. If anyone could PLEASE help me get this into a template.psd so I can design it... I would be eternally grateful.
I'm trying to understand linear perspective better. Let's say I have a plane and a cube and a defined intersection line with the front face of the cube. The colored lines are 3 examples of the intersection with the front plane of the cube; red line (a), violet line (b), brown line (c). How do I find the intersection wi...
I need to perform the function of this (InDesign script to replace all fonts in a document) script across all open documents or all documents in a book. Can this be done?
I've been asked to provide layered Tiff files from Illustrator. However, when I re-open the Tiff in Illustrator, it's just a flat image, which I'd expect but then why is the client asking for it in layers or am I missing a step?
I was following a Youtube tutorial when suddenly the warp transform tool doesn't work. Specifically, it doesn't warp the first layer compared to other layers. How can I fix this?
I want to make the grid fit inside the circle(remove the extra grid outside the circle). How can I achieve that in the simplest way? I have tried almost everything under the path menu but nothing helped. (The grid was created using the extensions-> render -> grids) Note: I would prefer a method that can be applied acr...
In some (old, fiction) books, each chapter begins with a few sentences that summarize, or rather hint at, the developements in the chapter. For example, the first chapter of "Three Men in a Boat", by Jerome K Jerome (Project Gutenberg edition) commences thusly: Three invalids.—Sufferings of George and Harris.—A victim...
Is there an easy way to make one handle of a node oppose the other one, in Inkscape? For example, let us say that I have one handle that is currently at 268.31°. That needs to stay constant, but I want to make the opposite handle directly opposite it: at 88.31°. I could sit there and try to mouse the thing into the pro...
I have some graphic design stuff to post on Instagram but no matter what I try, the image comes out blurry. I'd started with a file size of 1080x1080px when making in (currently using InDesign). I tried many export formats (JPEG and PNG in multiple different resolutions/ppis and quality). I even tried exporting to PDF ...
I am looking for a perspective warp that is able to distort an image in a single direction, i.e. gradually changing the scale and positions of objects within the image vertically while maintaining their horizontal scale and position. The "perspective warp" in Photoshop and similar tools in After Effects such as "corner...
I am a beginner to illustrator. I attempting to add text using the text tool. I am successful doing it in the practice file, but same actions don't work in my "live" file. Below images show my set up. Attribute/Overprint fill is not selected. and these are the layers as I have them set up adding on to this, here is t...
I am a motion designer and I usually get vector assets from sites like Freepik or Envato Elements... then animate them in order to use them in my motion graphics videos. I am asking whether it's possible to get those individual elements (let's say a clock or a laptop icon/vector) that I've already animated and sell the...
I want to generate a color palette using coolors.co using this green color (#24855E) as a starting point but I don't know which option to select to generate a palete like the example below. I was inspired by this website (https://1password.com/) which has a starting color of blu found in the logo (#1471CE) then the ba...
I'm looking for a painting/graphics app (non-subscription and preferably free) (iPad or Android) that can use a pressure stylus and can do wraparound drawing. Something similar to the "Mirror" symmetry that Procreate has, but without the mirror/reflection. The feature is demonstrated here for those not familiar with it...
(Bear with me, I know that having characters which are not monowidth in a monospace font is somewhat counterintuitive, but there is a legit use case below.) I have an application I've written where I need fixed-width hexadecimal characters so that my output can look like the below: 21 41 49 56 44 4d 2c 31 2c 31 2c 2c ...
Is there a quick way to apply an entire color palette to a linear gradient in Inkscape? I built a custom .gpl file which is available along with the native palettes. However, I can't see where I can assign an entire palette to a gradient. Is this possible? Without creating individual stops for each palette color? (ther...
I'm looking at photos that have been restored by experts in this particular field. I've noticed some of the better ones have some chromatic aberration in their image like so: I'm wondering why they do this? Is this a common technique to add a more realistic look to colorization?
I would like to achive the following as shown in the pictures below. The spiral should be bend only on one side, sucht that the upper and lower ends come closer together and converge at the end (see my second picture). Buuut it hasn't to be like in my second picture. The gaps between each loop have to be the same size....
I have observed several work with cookie cutters and markers on the internet and I believe that not all of them are real. I've been doing some Photoshop and InkScape tests to get similar results, but I haven't found any satisfactory patterns to get this result. Does anyone know which technique I should look for for bes...
According to this answer to another question about small caps by @yakunins, Arial got small caps around 2014: (image provided by @yakunins) So, how do you use them? Is this Arial or Arial Nova? What application(s) allow you to access these features?
I have a black-and-white image on a white background, which I want to place on an Illustrator file with a non-white background color, and I want the image to blend with that background. What I tried: Adding a solid color layer to the image in Photoshop, and set blend mode to multiply, and then place the resulting image...
I'm trying to save my black and white drawings as PNG 24 files with all the white parts transparent. I did it successfully with few of my drawings with the option "save for web" However today I failed to reproduce it. I always end up with no transparency as you can see on my screenshot. Anyone can explain me the reason...
I am a big fan of LibreOffice, because it is both free and powerful – powerful enough to give you complete access to all OpenType features. I am not sure whether optical sizes is something that is actually part of the OpenType specs, but I do know that good fonts come with at least two, usually preferably three optical...
Just wondering if anyone has come across the same issue of having to replace a non-monospaced font with one that is monospaced while retaining a similar look & feel (or if this is even possible/recommended). I assume that there are tools that will match fonts for you based on particular characteristics, but I normally ...
I have a lot of .ai files which they need to be sent to publisher, packaging them one by one is a pain! There is some sharewares for mac, but I'm on windows 10, and prefer a free script, plugin or third-party. For example Indesign has a Batch-process (convert/export/import) Script which works fluently with large amoun...
On a PC i've installed both Photoshop CC 2017 and 2020. I want to migrate all 2017 plugin, brushes, actions etc to 2020. Do you know how ? Thanks
I have two text boxes. One is aligned directly at the top of the box, the other has a space at the top. They have the exact same settings; I cannot find any difference between them. What is causing this?
We used a lovely font across several PSD files (see image below) and are now ready to print (PDF). After saving as Adobe PDF, this is what we get (top of the G is cut off). After reading some articles and suggestions, increasing kerning was suggested. This, unfortunately, only fixes the issue for horizontal trimming,...
Good day all, Using Freecad (on Ubuntu), I am searching for the tool to move graphically objects . The tool is made of three arrows and three balls of color green blue and red. I just cannot find any info to access it.
I have created a similar screen but I also want to design a background with a red wave like this... Where should I start?
I have been trying to answer a question here: Is there a way to Batch package AI files. So I wrote an answer (which I have currently deleted for the time being), advising the OP to record an Action, and use Insert Menu Item, to find the Package command. Then run the Action on a Batch of AI files in a folder, and output...
Is it worth to get photoshop if I’m not using it for photos or photography? I might instead use it for cartoons, images, ui design, illustrations and other graphics but not photos nor photography. Thanks.
I'm hoping to sell some digital art prints on Etsy but I'm very lost as to how I can provide various sizes for one aspect ratio. I'm aware this seems like a very dumb question to ask but I am really confused. Let's say I'm selling an art print for ISO sizes (A1,A2, A3,A4,..etc). Would I only need to upload the largest ...
You open an image in Photoshop, go to Image > Adjustments > levels, and then select the eyedropper to set the blacks. When you hover over the image with the eyedropper and press the alt key, what does this operation do? How do I apply that action on my image so I can export it? That's on Windows. I don't know if it has...
The doors don't show up when previewed, I'm using autocad 2017. Here is a screenshot of the print preview and the main drawing. Note: I'm still new to this. My layer settings:
I have an object A overlapping object B. How can I cut everything behind object A so that B has a bite-mark of A? I want to keep object A as is...
I'm trying to fill a colour using the shapebuilder tool however when I go to fill white it won't let me? I selected yellow and it filled but when I go to select white it jumps back to yellow very strange. Im clicking to fill to another colour but thats not working as well. See images below for steps I take.. Select ima...
On the left side is a circle drawn by Brush Tool. On the right side is a circle drawn by Pencil Tool, with the same brush tip. Is there a filter/tool to make the right one looks like the left one? I tried every single blur filter, but no matter how I adjust the parameter(s), it just looks much worse. I've read this a...
I am looking for the steps to prepare an image (a base layer photograph) with a grayscale result like the images attached. I am not asking about the colors and embellishments. In Photoshop I have tried various techniques for an end result in the style: Threshold Effect/CMYK Separation/Risograph/Halftone/Stipple ... no ...
I've been trying to get my head around colour management for ages. It seems like a hugely complicated topic, so I'll keep my question as simple as possible : If the same RGB or CMYK values can result in different colours according to the colour profile, shouldn't brand guidelines always specify the ICC profile? I ask b...
Live site: https://plugmusic.netlify.app/track.html Don't know if this is the right place to ask, but I am struggling with this music streaming app design. I am trying to make my design as balanced as possible, but I have a lot of awkward objects in weird placings. Main questions are: Should there be anything to the r...
I have pasted a link to an Illustrator file below where I am trying use the pattern on top to cut out the blue rectangle below. So the outcome is that what you see as black becomes transparent (cut-out) and what is blue is left filled in, to give a stencil like effect. I've played with expanding the pattern etc but get...
Does anyone know how to center my newly created brushes with the path? When I increase the stroke it simply goes everywhere.
Using Gimp 2.10 In the layers panel, all layers cannot be rearranged. I am trying to remove some from a group but cannot do so. Dragging has no effect and using the "up" or "down" buttons works but still stuck inside group. Tried ignoring this and made new groups. But I cannot move any files into them. What is going on...
Okay so say I have a shape like this: Now I want to snap a new path to one of the corners and then extend it tangentially from the curve. (This, but snapped to the tangent) How do I do this? I know how to snap a line from an arbitrary point to a tangent of a curve but that doesn't exactly help when the start node of ...
I have the clock hands below (cf. photo). they look very flat. i would now like to process them so that they get a slight metallic-black effect and become slightly three-dimensional if possible. The goal is that they are no longer just flat, but look a bit metallic-three dimensional. Do you know how I can do this...? S...
I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong, or there's an issue with certain unicode ranges in Inkscape Characters like (U+1F377, U+1F37A, U+1F37B) do not display in Inkscape, even when used with a font like Arial Unicode MS that has the characters in it. Other apps on the same Mac display them correctly. Is there are...
I am trying to draw a duck sketch in illustrator, I opened my file from last night and wanted to continue draw from the the highlighted point. Its taking it as corner point whereas I am looking for smooth movement for duck neck. Tried watching few videos about add and remove anchor points but not getting desired result...
I'm using Font Awesome vector icons in my designs. When I go to increase/transform the size of a frame the size of the icons also transform with it, but all other elements on the frame remain the same size. Is there a solution to stop this from happening?
I've come across this font and wonder if anybody can identify it.
I'm in the process of converting the short story "The Region Between" by Harlan Ellison (part of the collection Five Fates), and among the many formatting nightmares, including a page written in a spiral, I've also come across this strange symbol: In the story, it's used as an alien symbol. I'm guessing it's supposed ...
Why my eps (eps 10) file in Adobe AI is not working and it behaves like an image? I can't change anything. When I look at the layer panel it seems like an image.I deleted the layer of the link file. There was no link picture, I saved it in eps10 after seeing that everything is fine. But the next day I see that the file...
This purchased PDF (that I didn't create) repeats the text, underlined in green, under each diagram. Undeniably, deleting each instance one by one is too inefficient! How can I delete this text synchronously, productively, at one fell swoop?
It is a mess to make rotate a simple image on Adobe Illustrator 21. Here a screenshot of the original scene : I desperatly tried to use the "rotate tool" but it is very hard to handle : If I well understood, I have to chose a central point for the rotation, then click on the "rotate tool" which makes appear another wi...
Is it possible to Join Anchor points "A" and "B" from following figure in Illustrator ? Its for one of my swan drawing and I want to continue the path to make wing for swan. I have tried using path join tool but It gives me error that "To join, you must select two end points of same or different paths". If this is poss...
I have been saving svg files using the Save a Copy. But when I re-open the file and go to Undo History, there is no history to undo, even though I made a lot of changes to the file before I saved and closed it. All I can see is: [Unchanged]. Opening the layers is OK, I can do that, but if I want to undo history (eg. un...
I am building a web page for a software company, where I want to inform the visitor that our systems are user friendly, among other things. I would like an icon to go with that text. Do you have any idea what that icon would look like? My first thought was a checkmark or a smiley, but they both feel boring. User friend...
Does anyone know a good alternative to Porcha 911 font which is free for commercial use? See image and link below. https://www.dafont.com/911porscha.font?text=Detailing
I am a web developer.. I am not versed in the expertise of graphic design or managing SVG's excluding what you can do with them with web development. I am working on a clients site and the SVG logo they provided has an <image> tag when I pull it into VS Code. I opened the file in illustrator and upon saving, it asks me...
I am trying to group layers but the option is greyed out. The layers are based on drawing using pen tools. How can I group layers into one?
I have 2 graphic designers working for me right now, one a senior level, and the other is at amateur level. WE'RE currently paying per design by a fixed cost and commission. The senior graphic designer has sent me an invoice and the cost would be $110, while the commission fee for each individual sale will be $1. We're...
Is there a way to extend a point selection to its stroke ? I want to: select a point (magic shortcut ?) have the whole stroke selected Thanks !
I created a vector logo in Illustrator as an AI file. When I place this logo into a new AI file (embedding it by unchecking "Link" during the Place process), the vector now appears with horrible artifacts along certain corners. Original logo: Imported logo (ignore colours): This only affects the icon in the logo, whi...
I want to make a heat map of an Earth-like planet for a poster just like the one on the picture below. (The map doesn't need to follow Earth's geography, spaces for land and ocean can be randomised). I tried using Photoshop to render clouds and create random shapes from there, then stacking layers on top with smaller s...
I am an illustrator and I want to create a video with animation loops similar to this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8a45UZJGh4 Sample screen capture: How is something like this done? Do they create separate frame-by-frame animation loops for each of the moving parts and combine them using a program? I mainly...
I am not a new user...but I'm not an expert either. With that said...I know that it is very easy to rename a layer. All you need to do is double click on it and rename! The problem is Illustrator for some reason is no longer letting me do this. I'm not even sure how to go to the menu to do it the "long way". I've r...
How could I achieve the texturing similar to the image below? I am using stock affinity designer. What I mean: in the white at both bottom left and right there are a bunch of black dots, that taper off gently closer to the model. I tried using brushes, but the end result doesn't look like that. Similarly, parts of the ...
I’ve got a bunch of circles that I want to have the same spacing between them how do perfectly arrange them? (I’m using the iPad version of Affinity Designer.)

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