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Today I stumbled upon Color Palettes / Terms of Use, which says: The rights of IN COLOR BALANCE are defended in accordance with the CREATIVE COMMONS license. It confused me because I thought color can't have license. Sometimes I search on Google for color hex codes, or color palettes, and use them for my project. In ...
How can I save custom 3d effect (just degrees and perspective) as a preset to use in other projects and easily reapply? I know that if I make a 3d effect i can go to effect-> apply rotate. But I need a better solution. How can I accomplish this?
I am wondering why by default the standards A0, A1, A2 are missing on Illustrator. Is there any rationale behind this?
Recently downloaded illustrator, had some artwork, and am trying to save the file now (either as .ai or as .svg), but in both cases I receive the message: What is going on?
When I resize an object to something fairly small and I want to keep a zoomed-out view to get a feel for how big I want it, sometimes the little corner and pivot point shapes get in the way of the object. Can I temporarily disable these markers while resizing?
I took this shot a while ago. When this was taken, it was still too dark so you can see high noise towards the bottom half of the picture. I took a very similar shot about 5 minutes later As you can see, the noise level is dramatically lower. I tried blending in the sky from the first shot with the bottom from the se...
I'm looking for alternatives to IconWorkshop/Axialis IconGenerator for Mac users. Is there a program where you can upload your own SVG and export it to all different kinds of formats? Especially ICO and BMP. Thank you!
Pixel art of the sizes 16x16, 32x32, 64x64 px is too small in size (ranging from 100-500 Bytes). How do I display them properly scaled on a website? for ex: cryptopunks website has punks which are 24x24 px and size ~ 200 Bytes, yet on the webpage they are very well displayed. When I do "open image in new tab" or downlo...
I've searched and funnily enough can't seem to find a solution to this otherwise simple problem. I have a circle clipping mask and inside it contains some vector graphics. I'd like to simply apply a Stylize > Feather to the circle and give it a softer edge, but this route ends up applying the feather to the inside grap...
I'm trying to automate formatting a bunch of files with Illustrator actions. I made my action, this is what it looks like: However, I get this annoying popup every time during the Saturate step that says "No saturable colors found" and the only option is OK, which I click, then it successfully saturates the colors. So...
I’m having an issue with using the Pen tool in Photoshop and I’m wondering if you can help me out? When I’m using the Pen tool to create a path around an object the anchor points are not visible…until I choose the Move tool and then the anchor points show up??? Have you encountered this before? I have reset my prefere...
I know Spark is an online tool so I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this, so I apologize in advance if I'm in the wrong place. I'm sure there's a way I create a mood board on AdobeSpark from a Pinterest board, but I'm not sure how. I'd like the end result to be a mood board of images but without the links...
I noticed sharpness of image is different depends on how we bring it to photoshop. For e.g. via import, drag and drop, placed, open or load to PS. Is it just me or it is how it supposed to be?
This is more of a design question than a technical one so am not sure if this is the appropriate forum to ask in... I’m planning on making an A5 publication but I am quite new to using grids and I am a bit overwhelmed by how to go about using them within my publication. There are so many grids and rules out there like ...
Can anyone help me with this? I have to redesign a logo, and need to know what font this one is. I already tried whaththefont and all those apps. The slanted 'e's are very characteristic.
I have 3 pictures with different dimensions. I want to decrease the size of these pictures without stretching them. I have used content aware with photoshop but it doesn't work as i have 200X842 dimension which is quite small. Is there any solution to this? This is the original picture. The result i got from content aw...
I'm looking for the exact name to write to find this type/style of illustration. I need this same type of illustration but with animals. Any ideas how to look for this and / or where to find this? Thanks!
My GIMP application is in an odd state, possibly due to a setting that got messed up/corrupted? When I make a selection with any of the selection tools, there is no visual indication of where the selection is, i.e. no marching ants. I didn't find this problem in my searches, but I did find a reference to permanently to...
I know in most CAD programs, you when you have a ruler/measurement tool, you can just click the measurement, type in a number, and the segment will resize (and if you lock proportions, the entire object will scale so that the segment fits the size). I have no clue how to do this with Inkscape 1.1. I want to set the sh...
what animation tool/software do you think is used for this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeVmR4U-PYs
Example the 20px I want to erase this, but when I press backspace key the highlighted layer will be deleted. How can i fix this. TIA for the Answers
This image is just a sample since I am not allowed to attach the actual artwork. but the concept is to separate this artwork into Black and Purple that is going to be printed on a White canvas, what I tried is in Photoshop is to duplicate of the RGB channels to get the Black screen and Invert that to get the Purple scr...
I am working on my thesis and I am wondering is there a better way to describe a sequence of visits: from S there is a visit to node A from S there is a visit to node B from S there is a visit to node A again This is my attempt to describe the sequence and I asked a few people if its clear and they all said no.
I've heard that one should use spacing consistently, but I'm stuck on what to do here. I have the following box: The padding above and below the five circles is not equal. Would it be more pleasing to add equal padding on both ends? In the first image, I'm respecting the padding of the white box as a whole, making su...
How to create a Cipher Wheel as shown in picture with Inkscape? I would like help to create these circles, then divide them in 36 equal parts. And write the letters in each pie as shown in picture.
I was just trying to create a metal sign mockup for my project, and this is as far as I got. I'm not entirely happy with the result as it still looks unrealistic and out of place. Would anyone be able to show me some useful tips/techniques that will make the above metal sign fit in with the room and basically make it ...
Say I was to make a flower, and fill in a petal - a gap between the border and the filled-in colour would appear, and it doesn't look nice. How do I avoid that problem without having to manually fill it in? Thank you! Note: I am using Krita.
I want to have a header on a cover design of a cover I am making, that looks like the logo below. The problem arises when I want a lot of these outer lines. My method so far is to make each line individually but that would be a lot of work. I am making these outlines by taking the next inner line and scaling it so that...
I'm aquequate at best using Gimp, so for all I know this may be something easy to do. I'm dealing with really old church documents that were photographed in black and white, then scanned. I cannot improve the source material by taking a color photo, etc. But I've found that by playing with the filters in Gimp, I can ...
I have a mask over a layer: I am trying to select and area and I press Cmd C: When I pasted via Cmd V, I am seeing the layer pasted without the mask applied: As you can see, the mask associated with the layer was not copied. Is there a way to copy both the layer and the mask within the selected area?
For example: 0041 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A 1D400 MATHEMATICAL BOLD CAPITAL A 1D49C MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT CAPITAL A 1D4D0 MATHEMATICAL BOLD SCRIPT CAPITAL A. I read that Unicode tries not to encode character presentations.
I know I can do this by using two separate text frames, but I'd like to know if I can adjust which lines of text show on top of others, via paragraph styles. I don't like having all sorts of text frames, if I can use just one. I'd like my gold text to overlap the black text, from this: To this:
I recently started digital art with a non screen drawing tablet, I set the active area to be more manageable on a wide screen monitor, but I lose track of the active area is there any way to get an on screen floating border that can be adjusted, even just a simple rectangle shape would be enough if there's any apps tha...
Mainly, I'm using Blender and I think it can't do something like this so I need an extra online tool or something like that. I googled but still can't find what I'm looking for. I would like to convert text to be a single path (vector) like the letter "a" in the picture. How can I achieve something like that for free? ...
I am tasked (or tasked myself, rather) with continuing the montage of a series of promotional videos for an art exhibition. Since the person who started the series abruptly left the organization I work for some files are missing, among which the fonts used. I have contacted them, but they replied they no longer have an...
What are some good resources for learning instructional Design? How can I learn Instructional design more in depth from Scratch? The subject of this inquiry is: Basic principles for course creation Requirement Portfolio Books Sites Free resources YouTube Links Community
I would like if that's possible to overprint an inkjet print with a laser one in order to put a toner only in some areas and process this multi layered paper with additional finishing after. I've already read this: Most inkjet papers have a special coating on them to help the paper absorb the right amount of ink. If t...
So I checked some quote poster designs and billboard designs on Pinterest but one thing was confusing. Some were using a full stop in the end of quote (i.e., just before the "). For example: "This is a bla bla bla quote by someone." -- Author Name And some were avoiding it: "This is a bla bla bla quote by someone" -...
How would I change the colour of an outline? For example, this: I would like to change the colour of the outline (which, the colour is currently brown) to black. Would this be possible in Krita? Thanks!
I'm fairly new to Indesign but I'm already impressed how many tools and option are there to achieve style & layout consistency accross pages (eg paragraph & character styles, master pages and hierachical nesting of these features). Let me clarify with an example. Suppose that I have defined a simple 3 frames layout, on...
I'm am making an interaction design of a wireframe wherein I want to show the geometric lines such as the resize handle. The pen tool path with handles etc. Is there a plugin that allows me to show these elements while animating.
What should be the standard size of QR codes on business cards so that they can get scan easily?
I was going around trying to center the contents of a png image with anti-aliasing, and I imported the image into GIMP - but then I realised I didn't know how to select all the non-transparent pixels inside it. My first thought, and that of many other answers on stack exchange, was to use Alpha to Selection - but it do...
I am trying to achieve a similar look like the one in minutephysics videos like below for a college project (both outline and filler as shown in image below) - can you help with making brushes like the ones below? (please see the image in it's full version to observe more details):
Let's say I have a flower. I want to cut one petal, make a new layer, and then paste that part in there, without that petal looking choppy or anything. How would I do this? Thank you! Note: I am using Krita.
Is it possible to apply filter through script or command line. I want to add a long shadow to about 50 files.
Thanks all for your insights and suggestions. I've taken on board a few thing and removed a couple of other stuff. Giving more attention to the name of the company and making that stand out more than the bubbles. This is what's come from it. Update: I've made some changes after the feedback given. Doing my best to tak...
I am trying to use the Offset Path in Figma. Same as we do in Adobe Illustrator, but I am not sure if we can use it in Figma or not. Please tell me if yes then how we can use the Offset Path in Figma. Thank You!
Good day, just as the header question stated. I have multiple layers of shadows that has to overlap seamlessly together. I can manually go and try to make sure that these shadows connect seamlessly but it would be a tedious job to draw all of them to make sure that these shadows do not overlap. Their opacity is set to ...
What settings can enhance the picture quality? Level? Sharpness? I tried these in photoshop but the out come result still has a poor resolution.
I'm wondering if it is at all possible to edit an SVG's XML so that M 36, 187 H 61.455844 can be more precisely calculated. I tried M 36, 187 H (36+18*sqrt(2)) to see if that would work, though unfortunately not; I don't know whether is is possible to insert mathematical expressions as coordinate points, though I hope ...
I have a fairly simple image, with a few blurred lines: I would like to export these lines from the background: I need either black or transparent (preferred) background, and those lines I'd need some purple color matching the feel to the original one. Similar like this (but of course without the background): The fin...
How can I make something in a line complex pattern with thicker (or vice-versa making something with thinner lines in a thicker pattern)? For example, taking a star (full star or only the outline) and making a piece of pattern more thicker for take the form of the star. A technique that does not overload the software (...
I used to work only with Inkscape for a long time but now have Illustrator and am trying to get some of my files into Illustrator to work with them/update them. I have tried saving as an svg (optimized and regular), pdf, and eps and while I can open all of those files in Illustrator, it always saves as a single layer,...
There is a pretty easy image which I want to behave monochrome: You can see on the left, and also on top there is one thin line which seems semi-transparent. I dropped the colors by selecting Image > Mode > Grayscale, then selecting Image > Mode > Duotone (with only black as tint). (I'm not sure this is the right way ...
What I want I want to transform a raster image into a vector image with minimum number of vertices. (Specifically, into a sticker for a messaging app, which is a gzipped lottie file, but that's irrelevant, I think.) What I do The best vectorization app I could find is Vector Magic. The results are great, however stacki...
I'm not a designer. I'm trying to get my logo designed by someone who seems unaware of logo science. I will be using my logo on multiple products with many different color themes. How do I customize it according to the packaging?
I rasterized text and apply free transform and distort but can't stretch text like partial like this. (PS. I did this, but forgot what effect I applied... haha)
I am looking for a font family that contains all the characters listed on this pages: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/groff_char.7.html Id est mainly latin 1, greek letters and mathematical characters. I am only using bold and italic (not bold-italic), is there ant font that meets those criteria?
Imagine an image with a free selection with Antialiasing on + Feather edge pixels, copy and paste to new Layer(top), set the top Layer mode to something like Clear/Erase. I wonder if the following is not possible at all -even with individual pixel adjustments- or technically not possible for a program to automatically ...
I'm producing an animation and I'd like one object to be in front of the other, and then to be behind. Then repeat the process. They would be alternating, sort of like the effect of two snakes intertwining. Other example: I would like to know how to do this, change layer order during animation. I looked for several ...
I am trying to create a kind of book of those that are made with letter size sheets folded in half lengthwise. On my own I tried several things but I only managed to get 2 letter pages joined vertically and that is not what I am looking for. It is important to clarify that the pages will be printed on both sides. In my...
I would like to scale the image to the final size. As well as getting the boundaries more clear and the lines an even thickness. This would have to be exported into a format that's transferable to CAD software for laser cutting.
I am trying to create a slideshow with PowerPoint 365 (using Windows 10) and I was thinking on using some illustrations from Inkscape 1.1. For this I am trying to get the same color down in both programs. The way I imagined it would work is for example I create an object in PowerPoint, and I inspect the RGB color value...
This just started happening an hour ago and I'm pretty sure I must have done something to cause it, but for the life of me can't figure out how I did it. Can't seem to find a problem like this online either, all of them are usually solved by switching to the correct brush / changing blending mode. Here's the gist: when...
I have a fun shape: And I would like to place it around an ellipse like the image below, without having to place and rotate manually like I have done: I have tried a pattern brush, but it stretches the little balls on the tightest part of the curve (and I can't seem to control it): Scatter brush doesn't really work ...
Image editors like Paint.NET do not do what I want. They force me to make each small circle, rectangle, piece of text, etc. a layer. What I want is something like this: Layer 3 - Rectangle A, some texts Layer 2 - Circle A, Rectangle B, another image Layer 1 (bottom) - Base image Not like this (everything gets forced ...
Imagine we have a 2 layer setup like this: Top Layer + (Blend Mode: Overlay) this layer shows a half-transparent smoke cloud - very bright in the center starting at white with smooth color transitions to yellow to red to transparent. You can see the lower layer through this top layer when top layer is visible. Bottom L...
Looking for way to do a handwriting font but where certain letter sequences or patterns display together. Would the method be to put the two or three or four letters together as one, as uncommonly used UTF symbol or alt language character, then use that character in place of common ASCI text. Focus is HTML/CSS. Or just...
first off i couldn't suck more at graphic design. That's why i usually ask for some help - but since i need those graphics for different websites i usually end up with more trouble than before when implementing them. This time i have a SVG, it's a path (i think?) with some dots. Everything is transparent, besides the p...
Okay, so this might be a little complicated. In Adobe Illustrator (currently 25.4.1) I have a project that I'm doing, where a pattern of objects is on one layer, and there's an image on a locked layer beneath it. What I've been doing by hand is selecting one of the objects, and using the eyedropper tool to select a co...
I would like to convert an embedded image to a mosaic through a script since I need to iterate it a few hundred times. I've tried using app.executeMenuCommand("Live PSAdapter_plugin_MscT"); but this prompts a dialog, making automation impossible. I've also tried using app.doScript("toMosaic", "myActions", false); but f...
I'm using Adobe Illustrator and the recolor dialog box. For the purpose of this artwork, I can't change the skin tone, and the color of the hair is also limited. I'd like for Illustrator to give me a selection of color harmonies while keeping the skin tone fixed. How can this be done? ps. As a secondary question, whe...
Is there a way to have the text frame adjust while I am scaling up the text? The text just disappears whenever I increase the size of the text.
I am trying to replicate this angle to create mock-ups of a self-branding project. I've tried skewing and free transforming the perspective but I have multiple designs like the image and I want to make sure that they're all at the same angle so it looks realistic. I am not sure how to exactly determine the angle. I've ...
I want to replicate a woven effect of socks in photoshop. But not only with importing a texture and putting my design on top, I want the actual design to be displaced (see my refernce image) like it would in real life, due to the stitch. This is how the design looks like on the socks: And this is my current state by u...
I want to find some tutorials on how this effect might be done in Photoshop but I don’t know what to search for. Does anyone know what to call this?
For graphics design, I am using Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Corel draw, Indesign, and also Adobe XD.
I have an old scanned book, which is of low scan quality. But for normal text pages, I can use PhotoShop to enhance it and this is an enhanced page. As you can see, it's basically readable. It could be further enhanced, but I'm not a PhotoShop expert and don't know how to do it. Some other pages are hard to enhance as...
The new WebAssembly logo uses a colour, #654ff0, that is claimed to be complementary to the one used in a JavaScript logo, #f0db4f: I've tried various online tools (#654ff0 gives #fd9815 or #ffd63b or #d9f04e) techniques like inverting the RGB values (#654ff0 gives #9ab00f), and inverting the H (#654ff0 gives #d8ed50)...
I want to paint each path in a different color, so How can I separate this one composite path into 10 different paths? How I do it is that I create a path over each section and then "intersect", but I have to do this 10 times. There has to be a simpler way.
Not sure how much help I can get on this, but I'm using a drawing tablet (XP-Pen) with the inkscape calligraphy tool. I created a letter I'm really happy with but am somehow not able to recreate this look. I've been messing with the settings for hours. If anyone who has more experience with inkscape has any ideas I'd r...
I'm trying to dissolve, subdue (What's the correct term?) that glaring, brazen, straight clear cut boundary between the blue and green. I want the blue and green to gradient and meld smoothly (What's the correct term?) into each other. I'm using GIMP, as COVID unemployed me. Isn't it faster and productiver to use the...
I have this html svg path code which is an example of a heart with angle gradient colors. I need to edit that path code so that instead of a heart shape would be a normal circle HTML code: <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <title>Gradients</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="./style.css"...
How can a make a .txt file to save user input data after each use? I would like to save or store the "width" and "height" var until the next input. var doc = app.activeDocument; var panel = new Window("dialog", "test", undefined, { borderless: false }); var row1 = panel.add ("group"); r...
I am trying to export a .svg file to .png with Inkscape. The original .svg file was created with the prettymaps python toolbox (https://github.com/marceloprates/prettymaps) which creates .svg images of a map for given coordinates. In the .svg image there is a background of continuous little dots. However, when exportin...
Video As you can see in the video, I made a circle, then coloured it in manually - and then, it went over the outline. How do you avoid this? I would like to colour an object without having to go through the hassle of carefully erasing it. Thank you!
I have a new email signature image and text that I have created in Canva pro. downloaded as a .png and attached it to the manage signatures section in outlook. Unfortunately the text is very blurry and I need to rectify this. Can you help at all. FYI - I don't have illustrator so a SVG file isn't possible - only jpg or...
How does everyone deal with work flow and xcf files - like if you need to make 3 versions of same image i.e. : save image for web save image for print save image as original scan Do you touch up the original and save as an xcf and than save it again as scaled down appropriately for jpegs and save it again as print? So...
Maybe this question is too basic to ask here, but I googled it, and did not get my answer. I have 15 images, each of different dimensions. All are portrait images (height>width). I want to make their width 4.5 cm, preserve aspect ratio and print them in least number of A4 pages. Questions Is there some software using ...
DON'T use the Blur/Sharpen tool in this post. When I click the Gradient Tool in GIMP, a new separate window pops up! But this isn't what I want! As an exercise, I merely need to apply the Gradient Tool to blend one part of the picture — see the red line beneath. I picked this picture because there are two glaring braze...
If you look at this picture, I want this to be a perfectly rounded corner between these two nodes. I have no idea how far out I have to extent the node curvature pin.
I have this graph: It was copied from excel, but as you can see, not all the bars have the same width. How do I apply the same width to all bars? Doing it manually is not an option as I have 24 more graphs to do this with that all have the same problem.
Honestly I know nothing about fonts, I tried my best to find it online, anyway I'm looking for a font used in this schematic. The only hint I have is from FAQ where the author of the schematic below answered question about what software he used for his schematics. Orcad v1.25 from circa 1986. source to the FAQ
I'm technophobe, cyberphobe. As you see here, I typed my logo in Microsoft Word. Then I screenshot my logo text, and emailed the .JPG to my Contractor. Purpose is to manufacture and emblazon my logo text. But my Contractor still prefers .AI (Adobe Illustrator) file. I asked him why, and he just replied .AI is industr...
My Contractor requested the .ai file for my logo that I typed in Microsoft Word. But I'm technophobe, cyberphobe. Please try to avoid tech jargon. Before I spend hours downloading InkScape, and trying to learn how to copy and paste my text from Word to InkScape — I must check if the Contractor loses or suffers anything...
Just take for example simple rectangle that I split with division. When I use division there is always this thin line that shows where the division is. I thought it's only an issue in the program itself, but it's also noticeable in the exported SVG. Except, if I turn off the anti-aliasing. This thing doesn't happen in...
Is Tint the correct term? These photos aren't mine. I can't retake them. Don't change anything except the yellowish Tint. In the first photo, the food pictures must NOT be DEsaturated or DEcolorized! I'm referring any document, paper, or picture that appears too yellowish or brownish. I'm not merely referring Foxing. ...
Making a cloth label mockup with any shape I want, while still looking decently realistic, would be a dream come true. For example, I have an initial mockup like this If I want my label to be star shaped I place it in a smart vector then save it and boom. The cloth tag its updated to a star shape while still looking s...
Is there a way to calculate the amount of "ink" used on a specific artboard of a certain pantone ? Let's say the percentage of space used by that pantone ? I enclose an example... Thanks in advance.

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