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I'm trying to fill with colors each square inside the cube I drew with the pen tool. I made a custom grid and finally came up with the following shape: The problem, is that I cannot find a way to color each part of this cube, and even fill parts if I merge this cube for another, here is an example: Basically, fill th...
I'm trying to convert a .pdf image into a .eps one. The image quality is good but the font labels are not conserved as shown in the images Before: After: For the conversion I use the command inkscape image.pdf --export-eps=image.eps
I have created a logo where the brand color is a cool grey. The CMYK values for the grey are C10 M0 Y0 K68. I do realise that the grey is going to look different depending on the printer. My client printed the logo on 2 of their office printers and got different results. Would it be better to convert the grey to all 4 ...
I am trying to recreate the following effect on a layer using filters but I wasn't able to achieve the expected result. Photo Could you please suggest a way of achieving this kind of effect? Thanks
During my job applications as junior graphic designer (I have a degree in design), I show them my portfolio. Both projects are brand designs, printed in a handbook. I thought that those projects show, what I am capable of. But I get asked "don’t you have more projects? We need to see more, to rank/understand your graph...
Atached the ilustrator text effect
When I drag an image from a project file to another, the color becomes dull and less vibrant. I'm wondering what's causing it? Both project files are in RGB mode. Any advice will be appreciated. Thank you.
I want to make a lot of "product photos" by making a 3D model with a label and then rendering it. I know the basics of making a 3D model in Photoshop and rendering it Dimension with a decal/label to make a "product photo", but I have no idea how to efficiently scale that to dozens. And yet I see so many product catalog...
I have a diagram and want to highlight several elements (if it makes any difference, it's around 75% of the total elements, and they are to be highlighted because they are included in a sample but they are not more important than other elements). I am trying to think of different ways to do this and came up with the fo...
I want to create a 3d box, with a grid overlaid on the surface of the box, and have the grid have the same vanishing points. How do I do this? I am very new to InkScape.
Is there a way to copy and paste the curve of this path to the other side? I know you can mirror the path but that I assume would mean I have to cut the path in half then mirror flip and then join the paths back together.
So I have a designer building out a logo and they're having a hard time coming up with a concept, but the attached is the best design that they have sent over so far. I want to get your honest opinion on what could be improved and what should go/stay/etc.. About the logo: I'm building an app called MapGlider that is a...
This question might be on the edge of what is allowed, since it might be quite difficult to answer this with facts and reason. If this crosses the boundaries please let me know. The reason I decided to ask this question anyway, is because I feel that we could have a discussion that is based around clarifying the bounda...
The attached pictures below show two sample of the filter/effect that I want to achieve in Adobe Photoshop. Is this done through a Photoshop action or there is a particular set of steps that will lead to the effect in question? I tried achieving this by using a combination of brightness, levels, vibrance , saturation a...
I have this album of Garbage, and very curious about this design (mesh, delaunay, triangle, processing, GIMP, Inkscape?)
How can I remove those two areas that have a line going through them? I've been spending an hour on this. The join curves tool is greyed out. The divide tool makes this into three objects. I want that not to happen. It messes up my plans to make a gradient. The problem is that in all 4 of these corners there are two no...
I've got a polar grid with 8 concentric dividers and 24 radial dividers that creates a sort of circular table. I would like to put text into each of the cells and have it centered between each of the radial dividers. So far I am just creating text boxes and "eye balling" the rotation and spacing to place them into ea...
I'm trying to create a video of a musical score, similar to this, and I want to make it look as good as it can given my limited knowledge and software resources. The musical score (my own composition) was created in a high-end music notation software (Finale). Finale is capable of exporting pages as PDF. These alway...
I have a hollow closed path created by taking two closed paths and applying Path > Difference. I know the two paths are "identical", but one is an inset of the other. (This could be done with one of the Path > Offset tools, but that ends up creating curves I don't want, so I created this one by duplicating my closed pa...
How can I create this optical illusion in Illustrator or other programs? Original: My attempt:
I was on Dribbble and saw this shot. They made this seemingly normal-looking border-radius yet it looks different. How would you achieve this in Figma or AdobeXD? Shot link
Is there any tools/method available in either Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop or any other tool that can batch convert a folder with PNG images of multiple sizes to PNG images of 16x16 pixels? Thanks for your guidance and help!
I was on Pinterest and saw this image. It is pretty new to me and I have no idea where to start? How would you achieve this in any program? Please help me.
How to create this kind of grain effect on photoshop? Tried gradient map, exposure and can't figure out what to do next. Here's the original one and result.
Is there a way to drag and select over multiple paths/ artwork in illustrator and put them all in one layer instead of going into each layer and shifting?
My document contains two rectangles. It works as expected to scale the width for instance, i.e. all stroke widths are equal. Even if I have selected both objects. But if these objects are grouped together and I scale the width of that group, things go crazy and the width of the strokes are not equal anymore: Any ideas...
How can I select all objects that are in the area of another object? For example, I'd like to select all stars in the red circle. (edit) I want to select each object that its whole part is in the red circle. The selected objects will be like this.
I'm not a pro in illustrator so I don't fully know the correct terminology but this morning I opened it and it looks like this. how do I turn off all those green guides and how to I reset the canvas to make it so the outside is gray and only the inside white? I've tried resetting and that didn't do anything
How can i make this effect in illustrator. Thank you in advanced
I have a 2D logo but not sure where to start to create the 3d Logo pictured here. Is PS even where I should begin? I mainly want to copy the 3D effect and the neon outline/stroke but not necessarily the texture on the logo. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I am using illustrator CS6 and was wondering if there is a way to duplicate a shape while scaling a shape down to the centre? For example I am making a donut so I want to create a smaller circle in the middle. For other objects/shapes I would hold option+click and drag a duplicate. However I want to using the transform...
How to produce a effect like this? Adobe Illustrator.
Does macOS provide a pre-installed font that is metric-compatible to Times New Roman (which is pre-installed on Windows) and Liberation Serif (which is pre-installed in most Linux distros)? I need it because I work on HTML/CSS tutorial which is hightly depends on font metrics. Specifically, the width of each letter (I ...
With GIMP, I want to draw a rectangle so I follow the documentation: 14.2. Creating a Basic Shape. I get the expected result. Then I close the *.xcf file and re-open it. The selection is still active (as you can see in the screenshot below). Problem: I can't modify or remove the border. Any suggestion to solve this? Th...
I'm new to adobe illustrator. I want to fill my shape like the picture below. I tried adobe noises but I didn't find anything like this.
I'm having issues with the printing of some files. They're text files created in illustrator and then I add an image for background with an opacity at aprox 12%. It prints out as if it were "pixelated" or basically many micro dots. Only happens when I try printing the same file with the image as background, if no trans...
I'm trying to typeset fiction which uses these. I've gotten used to doing curly quotes and making emdashes proper emdashes, but I'm not sure what to do with these. These aren't contractions, so whatever they are they're not actually apostrophes. I have half a mind that maybe the okina (the Hawaiian punctuation) should ...
I am following a youtube tutorial (not a speed art vid) and have become stuck at the shapebuilder tool step. Basically there is the purple stroke on a seperate layer. The pink fill is on its own layer. The pink fill has been duplicated and offset to the left. In the tutorial the man pastes the fill that is NOT offset ...
After Inkscape import PDF , which have Arabic Words, Arabic Words Split into Separated Words. As a user, very new and basic with Inkscape. Attached Arabic Names PDF and ScreenShot of Arabic Words Splitted in Inkscape. Inkscape Version is 1.1. Using Windows 10 Appreciate your help
This is my first time working with InDesign and after completeing a basic tutorial I imported an .ai file as eps to InDesign. I want to create an interactive pdf, to make the text boxes appear and disappear with a single click, but I cannot find an answer anywhere on how to do this and if it is even possible. Can anyon...
i have gimp 2.10.22 on Kubuntu. I want a one pixel png image with r=102 g=127 b=128 a=128 I know about "add alpha channel". I have played with "add layer mask", setting opacity on various tools, tried the range tool and other tools with add layer mask. I know about edit layer mask / show layer mask / apply layer mask I...
In programming languages the editors use code highlighting, namely they use different colors for different keywords, for example green color for WHILE, blue color for BEGIN, red color for IF THEN ELSE etc .... I have a set of about 150 text files with code in C with the default black color and I want to open them in Il...
I want the text to be revealed as the scroll opens. How can I achieve this? I want my effect to come off exactly like this sample GIF just that I want to add my own text.
I have few different shapes (mostly rounded rectangle) imported from SVG. I need to shrink them by an absolute amount for example 1 mm, without changing their location. Basically I want something like Transform > Scale tool, but without % because I won't know the percentage, as the current mm scale scales all the shape...
Is there any possibility to achieve this effect in Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop? I don't know where to start? Any help much appreciated.
Pardon the title not making any sense. I have a set of images (the total number of images varies), all square (i.e. usually 200 × 200 or 1000 × 1000) They're sprites for a game, and I need to crop all images to the smallest possible area that still includes all pixels but for all images. Let's say this image was origi...
I'm working with a large 165 page catalog with lots of photos and tables. File size is 450MB I tried to insert a page (number 7) into the document. As soon as the page was inserted, the vertical scroll bar went blank and I can no longer scroll up and down in the document. Pg Up and Pg Down still works
I need to prepared B&W images for 2-color offset printing. The print company advised to use 2 × blacks (one neutral black and one slightly warm tinted black), to get really appealing blacks in offset process. Now I need to separate the grayscale images in Photoshop to generate a duotone. I understood the way this works...
The legendary woodcut engravings of Reynolds Stone are very beautiful Is there any extant typeface based on his hand-cut work?
I have an illustration and I want some of its elements to subtly sway back and forth or slowly scroll across the screen (clouds). You can see what I mean in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpO-nyGEBJ4 I also want to throw in some frame-by-frame animation. I currently do all my illustration work in Photoshop...
I can’t find the name of this but see it in many places: basically an all caps with the first letter slightly larger than the rest, as below (circled in orange).
I am following a tutorial and I have rounded a sharp corner made by the pen tool with effect>stylize>round corners. I am using this option as the direct selection round corner option is not possible for CS6. I am not really happy with the result though it doesnt round it as much as in the tutorial. This is my attempt.....
Suppose I have a square image in GIMP. I want the height to be scaled non-uniformly in a specific way. The left-most column of pixels should not be affected at all. The right-most column of pixels should be compressed into a single pixel (by taking the average colour). From left to right, the columns of pixels should b...
In my photoshop program I have 182 background layers. I have a total of 20 different masks that I want to apply to each layer. So that I get a background layer and mask combination. What is the best way for me to apply the masks to each background layer so the combinations can be exported? I prefer not to manually expo...
I'm asking in most regard of Photoshop techniques/plugins, but I'm also open to other software. In the application of 3D, a lot of times artists need to clone stamp multiple layers/files with each of their own clone sources. One use case is to fix multi-angle light shots that are used to generate a normal map, and make...
Trying to recreate this shape. I've got this far but would like to add smooth curvature my attempt is the purple stroked shape.
This question is the same as this one for Photoshop, however using GIMP and the exception that my Alt key is working, however Alt does not work in GIMP like in Photoshop. To quote the previous question, this is the problem (after adding a curve, the next path is curved as well): Is there a way to resolve this in GIMP ...
I need to make a texture for a 3D model of a house. Parts of the house are covered with wooden slats, like this: How can I recreate the area circled in red in GIMP ? I have tried to do this by drawing lines onto a new image and then using the Warp tool. This looked already a bit like wood, but far from what I see on t...
I am working with Inkscape and vector graphics. My dilemma is the following: I start by assuming that any vector object/image is essentially a vector path (straight or curved) with anchors (nodes) and handles to change the edges between the nodes. Curved paths are called Bezier curves, straight paths aren't. That said,...
How can I make below natural stone wall tileable ? Preferred solution would be to generate above wall in GIMP, but using a photo and making that tileable would also be acceptable-
Okay, so I am a Web Developer and I want to learn how to make 2D assets for the old school browser game I'm working on. I'm not an artist, and my skills in that area are very poor. I'm not even sure if that's the right place to post that question. I want to have the terrain and the buildings separated so that I can cre...
I'm struggling to edit the template of an intro. I'm quite new to Adobe After Effects, ideally I want to change the logo and text. I've managed to change the text underneath the logo, but not the logo itself. I tried to remove the logo, but it says "Are you sure, this logo is used in 10 other compositions." Any suggest...
I am really really new to Illustrator. I want to draw two bell-curves as in the pic attached. I want to partition the two bell-shapes into 4 regions and color them separately. I figure that the first thing to be done is to separate the figure into 4 separate regions - the two separate blue pieces and two separate red (...
A very simple exercise in GIMP: create a new (blank) image, open a .jpg image as a new layer, and crop that layer. What should happen: the canvas should stay the same size, regardless of how much or little the layer is cropped. What does happen: after cropping, the canvas shrinks to the size of the area selected as the...
I recently have read two definitions of being a neutral color. Neutral colors are colors that can be used within any color scheme as in contour and highlight. Neutral colors are hues that appear to be without color. The first definition is from this article https://www.cozzettebeauty.com/color-theory-equations-2/ The...
I'm an artist using Photoshop to create mock-ups of my art on multiple products. I've been following this thread and used it on a number of mock-ups to replace the image I'm adding to a product, for example, a mug. I have found that the script works perfectly with simple mock-ups, however when I try to use a T-shirt mo...
Alert: Amateur asking a question! I've got a job where I have to make copies of old letters that are engraved in on headstones. Often these letters are old and don't exist in any font Library. What is the most suitable software for copying the existing letters (from a picture), and create new letters that look the same...
I'm having trouble with selecting points using the width tool. Sometimes I want to click and delete a point I don't want but sometimes it doesn't work and sometimes it adds a new point its very frustrating is there a way to work around this?
I have been encountering an issue whenever I try to create a new point using the width tool it does this. I am not sure why it is doing that. I think its making multiple points?
I'm using Illustrator on this project. My goal is to cut the dual flag image to the shape of the cat's head, like what I figured a simple clipping mask would do. The cat's head has a transparent background, and the flags are images that I cropped and grouped together. I know clipping masks don't work unless certain pa...
I have an adobe xd file that I would like to import into axure if there's any way to do please help me Thank you guys!
I want to identify this font, can someone help me with this ?
I want to create brand assets, in which the logo is a vectorgraphic with color and an alternative in black-and-white. The logo is quiet complex and I need both CMYK and RGB (and black-and-white) exports. Is it possible to create / maintain just one master-file? Or do I need at least two files, one with "RGB Document Co...
Apologies for the extremely newbie question, but I'm way out of my area of expertise here. I'm working with a municipal government on a community composting program. Several large bins consisting of a steel frame and high-density polyethylene panels will be placed around the City for residents to drop off their househo...
When I go to add a swatch group to the swatches panel say basic RGB it opens it in a new window?
Is there a way to create multiple global swatches with an existing swatch group? I have shift+clicked the swatches in the group and went to the group folder but the convert process to global tickbox is greyed out.
I would like to add text to an SVG template layout and have it flow into the rectangles I have created for it. I would like to do this programmatically. My initial thought was to use Inkscape and D3.js however Inkscape 1.1 creates tspan objects for flowed text inside text objects and the positions of these seem to be c...
Pretty much as the title asked, is it possible to sort layers by fill color? I would like to sort by hue starting from darker colors to lighter colors.
3D models from scans or photogrammetry contain models of buildings that are all messed up, contain many angles, and have no straight lines aka 'walls'. Is there a way to clean this up, essentially probably draw new straight lines along the outline of the building? In the image, the green lines represent what I mean wit...
How are printers and publishers able to print book covers in neon? This House of Night book cover, for example, has the effect of neon color, but when I try to do it with CMYK they don't look vivid. My problem is the following: An illustrator made a beautiful cover for me in neon, but when we converted the cover from ...
I am in the middle of following a tutorial on making a pattern tile. I have created a pattern and now filled it in a box. I now want to warp it going to object>envelope distort>make with warp. In the tutorial both the shape and the pattern have the warp effect applied. Mine however only distorts the shape. Scale strok...
I have found that toggle visibility off of a selected object is command+3 on mac from what I searched up but for some reason it doesn't toggle the object back on?
YouTube Video URL : https://youtu.be/aZI1LO8AxAA This is a tutorial on Drawing Titanic Ship free hand sketch. I would like to know using drawing tools viz Adobe Photoshop, MSPaint etc whether the Titanic ship can be drawn as effectively as shown in the video.
I have created 50 artboards in Adobe Illustrator. Their size is the same 59.5x59.5 mm Nothing else. Just the blank artboards. When I go File > Export > Export as --> JPG and then I choose "Use artboards" then "Range" > 1 (and do the export) then next step the same "Range" > 2 and so on, the resulting JPGs are different...
I want to connect a grid of dots using connectors. Right now, I am creating the connector separately from the dots. Is there a quicker way to recreate this effect in Illustrator? The Grid The effect I am trying to achieve Separate connectors
The challenge is how to correlate these small color-coded symbols the file in a way that they are accessible without having to do separate alt-text for each and everyone. Here's an image of the key and how it's used in the design.
This is a follow-up to my previous question Converting a floorplan image to SVG paths (in Inkscape, or alternative). I start with a JPEG of a floorplan: I want "close off" the rooms, and make each of them individually clickable (and also to make the background transparent): I follow the guide How To Create SVG Paths ...
I'm trying to create a fillable PDF form using Adobe Acrobat DC. I'm creating separate text elements to use as field labels (name, phone number, etc.) but they keep automatically combining with other nearby text elements, making it impossible to move each one around on the page independently. This is severely limiting ...
What is the font used on this receipt?
I started to notice that whenever I saved an image in Photoshop, if I opened it back up in Windows Photo application, it would open with a yellowish filter. I learned that this was due to the color management settings of the screen. I then started digging around in the color management settings of Windows, resetting th...
How can I check the distance between two objects in px like in Figma or Adobe XD? I googled a bit but did not find any way to do this. This is what I want to achieve. In Figma. As you can see, it displays the distance between two objects by holding the alt button. In Illustrator. Is there any way to do it? Thanks :)
I have a PowerPoint premium template (attached). I don't know how, but it crops every image to a special styled shape. Any idea how can I do that in case I want to change these shapes? I have checked the master view and got nothing there too, this cropping style is a simple shape but in PowerPoint, we have no tool to d...
Is there an easy way to insert some text which shall be invisible, but still exist in the OCR'd / plaintext version of an PDF, using Adobe Acrobat Pro? I'd imagine the text to be inserted behind some white text-box, which shall serve as "white" background of the current existing text. The purpose is to embed text which...
I need help removing the spots in this picture. How do I do that. I only have an older version of Photoshop elements.
BACKGROUND I can hold the SHIFT key down to force the Move command to move along only one axis (x,y, or z) But I have to start moving the mouse first before locking it to an axis with the SHIFT key. And when I start I have to move the mouse around a bit until it starts moving along the Axis I want to lock to. so it mo...
I am using inkscape to export a svg-file I have created with it to pdf. Everything works fine, except for the rectangular elements which are missing in the pdf file. My svg file can be found here: file from cloud-drive I already tried to ungroup all the elements and change some directions, but the problem remains. Is ...
I usually like the results of my work, but I hate it when I see it in real life. Not because it looks different, I just don't like that it exists. Recently I designed a logo and it got published online, and I feel bad for hating it. Do you feel the same? How to deal with it?
Is there a way it can be scripted so that I can export every move in history to a separate png file while drawing with a brush For example, in the image attached, every brush stroke is recorded in the history panel, if I run a script, would a script be able to export all these moves to separate pngs, after I am finishe...
Are there fonts that try to straddle the boundary between computer fonts (serif, non-serif, monospace) and hand-written fonts? I am thinking of something more casual than a precise computer font but not as flowy or cursive as many handwriting or script fonts. Ideally, it would also be free to use as a webfont and maco...
I am trying to distort in perspective warped type using the free transform tool in illustrator as CS6 doesn't have a pop-out menu for the freeform transform tool. I am finding it difficult to find anything on the internet that offers a how to. I tried shift+option+command and clicked and dragged down on the top left c...