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I'm a bit new to Photoshop. This is the picture I'm working with:
https://ibb.co/Dt9VvRr
I want to extend the bottom to make a more square image. This means extending the wooden-board floor downwards, but I'm not sure what's the best way to do this. So far I've tried clone-stamping and pattern-stamping. Clone-stamping ... |
Needs help on whether this design is completely hand-drawn or multiple images ran through filter gallery and tweaked with brush tool
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This is something I have wondered about for a while, and although it's the sort of thing we're conditioned to accept unquestioningly, I finally have to question it. This may come across as a bit rant-ish, but I feel it's based on valid concerns.
Why are em dashes (this—that) used instead of space-hyphen-space (this - t... |
I am very new to adobe illustrator and I am trying to fill some colors on my drawn shapes.
But the only problem I am facing is whenever I am trying to fill color to any object using the eyedropper (I) tool
the stroke disappears automatically.
Please see the video attached below.
Is there any way to deal with it?
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In Illustrator, I have multiple objects. All have the same colours as their gradient but they have different locations and opacities with different rotations. When I select the entire group my gradient panel greys itself out.
Is it possible to replace a single colour in every gradient without needing to sit through cli... |
Last year, I've heard, that the Action manager won't be supported in newer versions of Photoshop (like q3 2022 or something like that).
Since then, I didn't keep up with the scripting side whatsoever, and now I'd like to ask: is this still true? Will Action manager not be supported? Are there good alternatives now, or ... |
Can someone explain if / how I can reduce the (seemingly huge) file size of the Cat2 SVG?
I've tried optimising CAT2 in Inkscape (simplifying (to reduce nodes), smoothing, optimising) & even using compressed SVG I can only get it to 1600kb. It doesn't seem THAT much more complicated than Cat1? Am I doing something wron... |
I am experienced with the Creative suite but I think there's several ways to achieve this. A part of me thinks that this is a 3D model with added render effects/extra processing to make it look ever so slightly bitmapped if you can see but otherwise, any manual guidance would be very very helpful. Thanks!
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How do I go about getting this slightly pixelated look in the image below (the circles being little squares rather than smooth curves).
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Our marketing department decided they want to use Avant Garde in promotional items for the library. i.e., Newsletters, brochures, etc. Apart from marketing, who use macs and/or have Adobe fonts, no one else has access to Avant Garde.
I thought about copying the font files from one of the macs and installing them on all... |
I have an application which requires 64 distinct colors that need to look good together.
I've found some resources online that use a color wheel. They allow you enter a color and then they show a list of colors that are complimentary. For instance, I can choose "tetradic colors" and I now have 4 colors that look good t... |
I have like 270 files each file have 4 artboards, So I want to duplicate the ArtB(3) and ArtB(4) For 80 times, but I need a script to select the artboards that i need then duplicate them in action to let it work as a bath automatically, So can you help me pleas.
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I would like to make an online 3d virtual exhibition stand (visitors of the website should be able to "go" through the 3D stand-model and by chance click on the items or watch the videos on the screens, like in a real booth). I can do the 3D model by myself (in Blender),but I'm not sure if there is a software, which "t... |
When I use the Export frames to PDF, I cannot find the way to order the frames as wanted. They seem to be exported in the order they were created. Any idea on how to change that?
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I have created an AI file that contains images that have portions hidden by clipping masks. When I save this AI file as a PDF file, the PDF file contains the full images. Is there a way to save to PDF that will not include the portion of an image that is hidden by clipping masks.
As a corollary to this. If clipping mas... |
Looking for help identifying this sans serif font. I tried WhatTheFont but no luck. Thanks.
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I'm an artist who is inexperienced to the world of art licensing. I have 136 artworks in a similar art style, all of which are food.png graphics, and I can see them being useful to a game developer with cooking mechanics (I have raw ingredients, fruits, desserts, you name it).
I'd want to sell them to a business rather... |
If I use the fill or bucket tool in Krita I end up with these white outlines. so What I am wondering is how can I get rid of the white outlines that appear after using the fill tool in Krita. it becomes frustrating to haft to paint over them every time I use the fill tool which makes my artwork look sloppy. as a side n... |
Such a question, need to make pixel art 2D 64x64 from 3D models/photo as a need to process pictures so they were as similar to the drawings. With a thick black outline, saw that it is necessary to make a vector image with flat colors, but still looks too blurry =(
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after writing a hand written letter with calligraphy brush when i want to add some details with pencil tool it does not add the detail on same brush and it automatically turns into basic brush instead of 30pt flat. what could be the reason? I am using a tablet.
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I have just discovered that InDesign hypenation is both very smart and somewhat weird.
Test text:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur communications.
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur bundespräsidenten.
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur электрофикация.
If I set the language of the Basic Paragraph sty... |
Is there a way to prevent a text frame (more specifically, the primary frame) from moving (by accident), apart from locking it?
Yes, I can simply lock it, but this affects search and replace, this is why I look for another solution.
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Does anyone have any idea what visual effect this is?
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Here is a simple test:
Create a new document and a text frame
Type
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Change the alignment of the second line to the right, so that now you have
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A good ordinary book or body-text font should come with smallcaps. How high should the smallcaps be? I suppose this would be expressed as either relative to the x-height (i don't think all smallcap designs make them exactly the x-height), or relative to the cap-height.
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So we have this image and we have added a flamingo over it. The problem is we can't identify the direction of light currectly and it makes the shadow we made for the flamingo so bad. Can you please tell us in which direction should our lighting be?
Update: This is the image without any manipulation:
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It's been loading for 5 minutes at the same mark, but it's not even clear to me what it's loading, I haven't exported anything yet.
And I get this error if I try to click on Save As.
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The option "Snap to Document Grid", although it trying to help you to aling an object/frame correctly, doesn't prevent it to be aligned somewhat off, e.g. with X=13p6.462 instead of 13p6.
Is it possible to make it work in a more strict way, so that the object that you are trying to align (with mouse, of course) will ne... |
can you please help me identify this font? the red one
couldn't find any font detector...
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I am working on a publication in InDesign, working on a 2019 Macbook Pro display, in which there are around 300 links to images. Some images are in RGB, and some in CMYK. Here is an example of an image on-screen:
I would like to prepare the file for printing, by making sure all images are converted to CMYK. I have tri... |
I made an action, inside this action, there is a script (about set Artboard 4 Active) when I play it as a batch I get an error
The object "Script" is not currently available.
so the script doesn't work.
Is there any solution for that?
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I want to do this in Adobe Xd, can someone please tell me is there any way or any plugin to achieve this in adobe xd.
Note: The current image is from Figma.
Although I know we can do this by using the Boolean Groups.
But it is time-consuming when you are working with more than 100 screens on a page right??
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Can anyone tell me how I can get my circle outer stroke to look glittery like the outer square frame which I purchased, been trying so hard to work it out for myself but its driving me crazy now Hoping someone can point me in the right direction - I'm using Photoshop CC
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I am working with vector graphics designing mugs, but whenever I place an object on top of the mug, the object is changing color. I am noticing it is also happening to all my objects. The top object looks like it is under another object that would have its opacity down. I can't figure out why it is doing this to me. Th... |
I'm wondering why majority of the mockups available online utilize Smart Object layer for containing a placeholder image rather than a Frame?
It just feels like frames are easier to work with, am I missing something?
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I am currently learning color theory in depth, and I have trouble figuring out how to balance a color palette and how chroma plays a role in it.
I have read an article that the following image (the one on the bottom) looks balanced because the colors have the same chroma. I tried desaturating the colors and turning the... |
What are the precise parameters of the ellipse that results when a circle of diameter 1 is projected from an orthonormal grid onto an isometric grid?
Working on isometric transformation of my TTRPG art assets into isometric space. Thank you!
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Relatively new to graphic design; I wanted to ask how to go about creating a 3D contour map reminiscent of this hand-cut art piece. Is it something that requires 3D software like Dimension or Blender, or can this be done in photoshop/illustrator?
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I need to transform a layer specifically to resize the image or make the layer smaller but when I go to the edit on the tool bar I am unable to click on the transform tab to
resize it, is there another way to resize it? How can I make it so I can click on the transform tab?
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I am on a 5k iMac and creating thumbnails from screen shots for use in a website. In case it matters, my display resolution is set to 3200x1800 (less than the number of physical pixels of the display itself).
In Photoshop I have a layer that is 488x268 pixels. As I understand things, Photoshop is using physical display... |
We're trying to connect a Riso MZ7U to a computer running Ubuntu.
The link to download official drivers from Riso is https://www.riso.com/download/
They only have drivers available for Windows and Mac.
Has anyone ever successfully connected a Riso to a computer running Linux? Are there any unofficial or third party dri... |
Here is a simple test:
Create a new document with a primary text frame option enabled.
Type there:
line 1
<empty line 1>
<empty line 2>
<empty line 3>
line 2
By using the Type tool, create a new, small text frame. Type there:
line a
line b
and paste this frame on the second empty line to make it inline.
Put the ... |
How do I fix this? Pieces of the design are getting cut off (right and bottom side of the yellow, top and left side of the green).
Any help would be appreciated!
(to answer a reply that was deleted - there is no background, it is a clean vector, fully transparent)
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Newbie to InDesign here, I was given two files for my work: a path version and a non-path version file, as shown in the picture. Here's the problem:
For the non-path file, I can only edit the text but not the icons/graphics.
For the path file, I can only edit the icons/graphics, but not the text.
How do I go about ... |
I make a graphical R package which includes scatterplots as heatmaps. These plots show the data points of two variables on the x and y axis while colouring them with the values of a third variable. What colour scales are best for this purpose? The plot background is white.
What I've tried
For R there is an omnipresent ... |
I need to create a document with many images that should move up-and-down with text.
The images are between paragraphs. Paragraphs are currently separated with empty lines.
I cannot simply make these images inline, because they should have captions, and captions should be generated from file metadata and should be upd... |
When I cut the second of two threaded frames and then paste it back, it retains its text but loses the connection to the first frame. That is, there are two independent frames then. Is there a way to cut-and-paste a frame in such a way that the connection to the previous frame will be preserved?
By the word "connection... |
I am working on a packaging design project. I have already delivered the print ready files to the client and to the vendor hired by the client for the printing. However the client is promising me to pay only when he receives the sample prints from the vendor. The vendor is taking more time than what he had estimated to... |
I have used GIMP for ages, and I've NEVER seen this before...
When I try to make a freehand line, it comes out all jaggy, since somehow horizontal/vertical/45 degree lines are preferred apparently:
What is this and how can I get it deactivated?
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My goal is to Image Trace an image and recolor it with specific sets of color by the AI.
The problem are:
I don't know how to edit the Document library.
I need to compare between 3 artboards (4/8/12 color).
The solution that I know:
Click the Expand button and manually change the color one by one
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I am using GIMP to create altitude profiles for the stages of a planned bicycle tour. Playing around on my first attempt, I created the profile below. (Note the smooth edge between the land and sky.)
After putting the project down for a day or so, I had forgotten my steps, but went ahead and tried to repeat the proces... |
I am trying to recreate this design. I have the shapes already needed for it, but I can't think of a way to make the design digitally. Is there some process of doing this or am I stuck just manually adjusting the shapes to size?
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My goal is to output image that has been Image Trace in outline without clicking the Expand button and set the fill to none.
The problem are:
Exporting the layer with View box set to Outlines will only export blank image.
I need to compare 3 artboards (4/8/12 colour) and the outlines are different between the artboard... |
i saved a symbol on adobe illustrator to work on later, but when I open a new file I cant find the symbol anymore on library. I realized this happened when i tried to save graphic styles as well. What could the reason be?
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How can I select a rectangle and crop to it in gimp?
I opened an image. The rectangle selection tool is apparently selected. The mouse cursor consisted of a cross-hairs, a no-entry sign, and a double-lined square. I could not select anything.
The status bar says "Click-drag to subtract from the current selection". S... |
Is there a way to create this style of halftone dot patterns in illustrator manually? Using the color halftone effect breaks it down into simple black and white dots and turns it into a raster image, which I'm trying to avoid.
Edit: @user287001- Thank you very much for your informative answer. I noticed in your exampl... |
Example to explain above question:
If my company sells a product to a client that includes a font found and used through fonts.adobe.com and the creative cloud subscription,
would they still be usable, if used on a website, after cancelling the creative cloud at some point?
Would it still be legal to use them? (no red... |
I'm trying to figure out how to get the loop in the B to have an overlapping stroke. As you can see because the inside stroke is so thick you can't see the black outside stroke. I could make the loop a bit bigger bit it would distort the form of the letter.
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I know that it is possible to export individual artboards all as separate PDFs in Illustrator, but I need to group some of the artboards together and I can't find a good solution.
At the moment, I'm exporting all of them and then manually combining each one using Preview (mac) which takes forever.
An example of what I ... |
I'm having trouble with Photoshop correctly displaying Bangla characters.
Here is an example.
The correct original text is this: বিক্রি
But in Photoshop, it shows up like this:
I have no idea why this is happening. I couldn't find anything useful from a Google search.
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Currently I'm creating this by hand (attached picture). Is there any way I could automate this process, so when I resize the circle, the boxes stay the same height.
Right now, when I resize and keep the font size the same, this happens:
Suggestions for other tools beside illustrator where this could be done are also ... |
Hello, When I try to blend the front and last words, the middle words get a box around them. Does anyone know why this happens and what to do? I used Effect > 3D and Materials > Rotate...
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I am very interested in linen postcards and would love to be able to create images in the same style with photos I take.
I have been trying to figure out how but with no luck. I've tried working with a variety of filters. Oil paint filter is not the right direction. A combination of the dry brush and cutout filters sta... |
Am using coreldraw X7, so can I use RGB color mode for print fliers, CMYK is actually producing dull colors which I don't like and also what is the standard size (in inch) for print fliers...
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Disclaimer: I'm very new to Inkscape and have almost no experience in graphic design, I'm just getting started.
I'm trying to create an object with certain areas be either transparent or always filled with white. I've used squares, lines, and circles to make the following:
The top-right circle is transparent and does ... |
I’m looking to track down this specific font, I’ve tried multiple Find Font websites. the slanted crossbar on the lowercase e and the y and g seperate it from any font i’ve seen.
I believe the websites I tried are WhatTheFont and WhatFontIs. The source is a Squishmallow plushie bio tag specifically, Janet!
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My primary language is Russian, but most of my documents are a mix of Russian and English paragraphs and sometimes even sentences/words in the same paragraph.
(I use InDesign for my own personal needs. I don't need to send these documents to a "boss" or publisher, and so I'm OK if they look somewhat chaotic, as long as... |
Is there a way to create an overlapping and integrated dot pattern like this in illustrator without it looking amateurish, like one layer stacked on top of another?
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If I look at this picture I see a common effect by which a screen is divided into two parts by a slanted line, giving a "shiny glass" effect.
Does this effect/style have a name and any guidelines?
Thank you in advance.
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Newbie to illustrator here and haven't found an answer to this online yet.
Looking to separate all shapes in this vector but cant dissect the circles with scissor tool because of paths placed in circles. I want to move, fill, or transform pieces separately.
Edit: sorry for forgetting the upload!
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I'm working on a 72ppi PSD file.
A have hundreds of files in different ppi (96ppi, for example) all of them are 800px tall
When placing them in the PSD, intead of being 800px tall, they are smaller. I KNOW this is a totally normal behavior WHEN PRINTING.
But since I'm not printing them, is there a way to make Photoshop... |
Two Curvature Tool questions for Illustrator:
How do you "end the drawing"? Enter works for the Pen Tool but not the Curvature Tool. I've always just changed tools but that feels lame. Sometimes I'd like to start a new curve
Say I have a curve drawn with Curvature Tool that contains a corner (in the first picture bel... |
InDesign CC comes with a set of pre-defined autonumbering lists:
1.2.3.
a.b.c.
0001, 0002, 0003.... etc.
Is there a way to add a custom autonumbering list such as Cyrillic letters or custom numbering such as 000001? InDesign MiddleEastern version does add Hebrew and Arabic numbering systems and Japanese version adds Ch... |
When I start typing text randomly somewhere on an artboard in Illustrator, the right side of the text area doesn't line up with the right side of the last symbol.
In the above image, the tail of the 'W' lines up nicely, but the tail of the 'M' doesn't. Is it possible to shrink the text area to align with the end of th... |
I am working on some support articles, and I would like to add some example screenshots, and in those screenshots, I would like to add large arrows where the border color is different than the fill color, so it looks more engaging and fun (you can see some examples here, made using Google Slides). Google Drawings is fi... |
We received a PDF from our client to forward it to the printing house (I hope that is the correct english term, I'm talking about offset print) and later we combine the printed result with our product.
The design of our client has some shadows around text.
The printed version although doesn't have any show, just a blac... |
I want to animate a transition between two (more later but just two for now) different types of knots, I was told it was almost mathematically impossible to do such a thing in After Effects, does anyone know what software and how I would go about doing something like this?
Screenshot attached shows rough sketch of two... |
I'm wanting to remove the background scrape effect texture on this mockup. This is an editable psd but the box and background are a flattened jpg. I was wondering if it would be easier to cut and paste the box onto a different background entirely? I want to recreated the shading and I don't have any experience with cr... |
I can't wrap my head around this grid icon.
What would it look like if it was an Isometric drawing? Would it look like a regular rectangle? Maybe, something like this?
Thanks!
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My fonts are not being activated in Adobe when I try and use them in illustrator. I have been using it with no problems untill today. I have tried the troubleshooting tips on the adobe website..
Toggling adobe fonts on and off in the preferences of the CC app
Signing out
Making sure Im signed in to the right account o... |
currently I'm using AI for creating icons. However, When I tried using a 1-pixel border for my circle. the arc side is pixelated can you show me how to make it pixel perfect? Thanks
Please see the below image. As you can see it's pixelated but in using a line it's fine?
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When designing an A4 size flyer, do I have to put margins so as to know the printable areas of the A4 size page... If not, I wish to know if all areas of the A4 size page would be printable..
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i am trying to draw a 3D-Rectangle that is rotated by say 45 degrees around its longitudinal axis.
How can i achieve this? It is suprisingly difficult to draw such that it doesn't look akward.
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I'm looking make the process of making the Cutout person youtube cover faster, hopefully using simple/inexpensive tools though if the best option is expensive/complicated I would still go for that.
The idea is to produce a result like this:
There's a person superimposed on the background image with a colored border ar... |
My goal is to delete everything outside the clipping mask.
What I've tried:
Put an image.
Create a shape on top of the image.
Create clipping mask with Object > Clipping Mask > Make
Select the Clip Group.
Open Pathfinder window with Window > Pathfinder.
Select Crop from the Pathfinder.
The problem:
I got message The... |
For almost a year, I have been hiring an artist in Ukraine to draw some human figures for a book. I am saddened for him and for myself that he has informed me he can no longer work. He is a young man, and he has been drafted into military activity. I fear that he is already in combat. He was always a person of gr... |
Im a graphic designer and youtuber who wants to improve the overall quality of my thumbnails. What skin retouching/effects could i learn to achieve this effect on the subject. Any learning resources or tutorials?
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I'm trying to export a semi-transparent png. There is an addition layer with giving a bloom/glow(not really sure what to else call it) which shows up fine when there is a black background, but disappears when I hide the layer and/or export it.
I had a very similar problem in blender when making the model while exportin... |
I'm sorry for reproducing such a big image. This is a picture of a drawing on a cheap tablet (imitating that scratch paper) taken with a smartphone (which has a bad camera). That was slightly on an angle and there's glare from a light source top right or something.
I need to prepare this for the trace contour filter in... |
I saw this image in an article about the Ferrari Testarossa and I liked the font. I tried myfonts.com and found a match that is remarkably similar but not exactly the same. Maybe the author also edited the image with Photoshop?
Original:
Match (myfonts.com):
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How can I achieve a mix like the following image from these 2 images so I can export it and use it as a background image for a text:
I've tried to use the gradient image as a background and as a second layer, the color stripes image, then apply some transparency on it, but the colors are too faded and the effect is ... |
I was wondering if there is a name for the kind of word spacing you can see in the first line:
It is obviously too close as the words seem to blend into one long word. What would you call this "mistake"?
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I work as the only designer in a marketing agency.
A lot of the time I have a day to produce a whole packaging design, another day to produce a suite of social assets and a couple of infographics, sometimes I have a day to produce a rebrand.
A lot of the time things overshoot and I have to continue the next day so thin... |
How might I go about creating a wave pattern like the attached reference?
I used the blend tool to create the series of lines and the profile tool to get the changing width in the stroke but I don't understand how to get that rippling wave effect.
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So im creating a texture pack for minecraft and am curently making a texture for a creeper.
I allready made a face but found it a bit boring I would like to see the green color have some darker/lighter green noise.
Is it possible or do I have to delete my face and randomize the green there?
Below are 2 pictures the fir... |
I have been doing work in Photoshop, but the saved .tiffs look vastly different outside of Photoshop. I save as .Tiff because often the files are larger than 2GB so no PSD. But with later or image compression the Tiff size is not that bad. I can get it on my iPhone. But in Mac OS Preview, Mac OS Photos, iOS Photos, and... |
The brand is for a safebox-custoding company.
I think I am close to finish the design. However, I feel like it's still lacking something. I don't know what it is. It's a gut/eye feeling.
I wonder if anyone could give me his opinion + suggestions. Please, do not hesitate. Even nitpicking would be appreciated.
REGARDING... |
I have a spritesheet (used by a simple 2d pixel game):
Water is animated (each water sprite is different), grass remains the same.
I need to replace each grass sprite (32x32 px) with a different sprite. So after editing it will look like this:
Of course I can do it manually in any graphical program.
But I'm looking f... |
hello there.
i have used image trace and parts of the image for some reason are transparent instead of black and white like the rest?
how do i get the transparent parts white?
as you can see from the image below the bits that disappear from the image when on the black background are transparent and i want them to be w... |
I am wanting title and description of burger to sit alongside the burger image. The first burger image uses the wrap around bounding box option.
I want the following burger image and text to behave the same way however whenever I select the wrap around bounding box option again it doesn't behave in the same way. I am... |
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