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I am trying to trace the below image (jpg). But it isn't coming out right at all. Thanks! Original Image: Traced Image: Settings:
I can get the current images open using gimp.image_list() but how can I export them to a single pdf? The function pdb.file_pdf_multi_save() does not work. I do not intend to use ImageMagick, not sure if it still works either. This is not properly answered in this question: Export multi page pdf with gimp from gimpfu im...
In the book Design Elements by Timothy Samara, Mr. Samara depicts a spectrum for the representation of images, ranging from pictorial (literal/concrete) representation to non pictorial (abstract) representation. Both these territories contain sub territories, denoting/describing the "mode" of representation. Please not...
I am Greg. I am trying to find out if Adobe illustrator, or any other software will do the following: I have a pencil hard-copy drawing, and I want to scan it into the software then I want to program to change all my pencil lines the same width and the same darkness for me, but otherwise make no changes to my drawing...
I wanted to fill a shape which I draw by adding some lines in InkScape: In spite I have set Close gaps options to None. I want to achieve something like this: But without the lines and without those white gaps shown above. Lines are only used for guidance the filling, but I don't want to bother coloring the lines, as...
I have a layer in Photoshop which contains some foreground graphics: I want to copy this layer to another document (which contains the background: exactly same size, solid color): How can I paste the foreground onto background to preserve its position? Now, if I copy paste, my anchoring is rebased to the foreground c...
Is there a Figma plugin for generating tints & shades of a color that would be the same as the ones produced by Bootstrap's "mix" function (as shown here — https://codepen.io/emdeoh/pen/zYOQOPB)? I've tried some Figma plugins that generate tints / shades, but the results seem to differ from what I'd get through that C...
I have this very simple bitmap: My intention is to create a nice SVG from this. Although I traced it with InkScape, but it created too many points and I would like to know how can I draw this from scratch with using basic tools only: circle, and Bezier curves and lines. I am at this point: But I have no idea on how ...
I am trying to use the font "Microsoft Sans Serif" in an application where numbers are of high importance, and am facing one single issue: Using the development tool's default font size, the comma and the period are hardly distinguishable. Below is a heavily zoomed screenshot using font size 8 (height 11). This font i...
I am using a font (the lovely Sprat by Ethan Nakache) for a project and cannot get it to work in InDesign – it doesn't show up in the Type menu. It appears and works fine in Illustrator as well as Photoshop, so I am a bit confused about it not working in ID. Things I have tried (so far without success): add font to Ap...
How do I embed (link file) one svg in another? If it's not obvious, then I'd like to keep it vectorized (when saving as pdf from inkscape) rather than rasterized (using <image>). Duplicate: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71654338/embed-an-svg-in-an-svg
I realize this is subjective in nature and more opinion-based perhaps. I'm seeking "best practices" from experienced designers. Hired to create a piece for a client using similar copy to what's on a web page. While working through the piece, you find a number of copy errors. Mostly of the "spellcheck won't catch that"...
My Illustrator working profile is set to sRGB/Coated FOGRA39 and to preserve embedded profiles. Conversion Adobe ACE / Perceptual. I did a test. I made a print ready PDF in two different ways: In the first I linked an sRGB psd-file to the layout and to the second I linked a PSD already converted to fogra cmyk in Photo...
I have an icon which utilizes 3 variants of the same basic color (at least it seems). This is the basic color: #7646be: 1st variant (darker version): #582299: 2nd variant (lighter version): #c4acff: My question is how to get the very same color "variants" for a different color? For example this is another base color...
How can I create a perfect cylinder with an outline like in the picture below using inkscape? The underside needs to be a slightly darker color than the top part so it looks like 3d. Thanks in advance.
I designed 5 Google ad banners on photoshop ( first time creating animated gifs for Google Ad) and I wasn't aware of the requirements. The size of the banners were very big between 200 and 1500kb. I don't know how to optimize and reduce them on photoshop. I tried online with gif convertors/compressors but the image qua...
When I'm working in an art program on my computer, be it Photoshop, FireAlpaca, or just the whiteboard app that came with the computer, the colors look fine. However, when I save the finished image and open it back up in the pictures app, the color appears a lot cooler and harsher than I wanted it to be (and in one pie...
I am just wanting the gradient bar slider to stay when I am using the gradient tool. Whenever I click and drag it disappears? I am not sure what it is called but I found an image in the photoshop application it looks like this.
could anyone help me? I need to achieve a similar effect to this illustration for a client and I don't have much time. I want to apply some kind of effect to a photo (probably a black and white photo) to colour in areas of clothing with bold colours --like it was done manually in a magazine print or hand-coloured (it s...
The material design color palette for Inkscape: https://github.com/drac/Material-Design-Color-Palette-for-Inkscape Has a location for OS X, but not for MacOS. Anyone know where to install the palette on MacOS?
I'm using a PowerPoint template (and a very old version of PowerPoint - 2007). When the presentation is played, the text on a slide comes in stages as I move through. I want to “flatten” (if that's the right word) the presentation, so that when playing the presentation, there is only one “page” for each slide, so “what...
I am new to Inkscape (though I have experience in other vector drawing software), and am facing the following problem. I am tracing a street map for a town using a bitmap from OpenStreetMap. I am using bezier curves for the roads. Different roads have different colors and sizes, shown in the figure by the green and yel...
Is it possible to define a color palette in Photoshop or Illustrator and use them as reference colors when filling objects? Sort of the behavior CSS classes have, where if you change a color in a CSS class, all tags with that class will be affected.
I have this line and i want to make it thin at the both ends. How can i make that? Is there a version of width tool from illustrator in photoshop?
In GIMP, I'd like to pin together two layers at a point so that the two layer can be translated horizontally and vertically together but there is a little more freedom in the rotation. Like a ball-and-socket joint, there would be one pivot point at which they are fixed together, but the layers are free to rotate relati...
I have a tree: Which will be going atop some dirt, and I'd like to apply a gradient opacity transition effect to the bottom, to make it look like the tree is "in" in the dirt. If I have a selection like this: How can I go about selecting the outermost 4 or 5 pixels, and applying a gradient opacity effect from the inw...
I have an image in my xcf file that is too dark at some region, then I change the brightness and contranst of that image. But, after I done path, now I want to change the brightness and contrast really-really back to original or normal. How can I do that?
I am applying pathfinder- minus front to cut out some shape. Then I notice the common border the shapes share are more bold/thick than rest lines/borders. At first I thought am doing something wrong, Then I activated outline mode, zoomed 64000% and then I notice lines are not placed on each other accurately! Common li...
Following up from an earlier question, I am tracing a street map for a town using a bitmap from OpenStreetMap. I am using bezier curves for the roads. Different roads have different colors and sizes, shown in the figure by the green and yellow lines. I have also created a bounding box for the map, shown in graphic as a...
I have 4 rectangles: How can I make the bottom ones (2,3 and 4) to take all the width provided by Rectangle1 equally? I.e. rectangles 2, 3 and 4 must have the same size but I'd like to have no spacing in between them, and also I'd like Rectangle2 to start where Rectangle1 starts, and Rectangle4 to end where Rectangle1...
I have a fairly simple drawing in InkScape: These are 3 equivalent paths, copied from the first one. Line weight is 1pt. When exporting this image, it results 3 different shapes: If we look closely the bottom two blacks (especially their bottom lines): I have tried first with default export settings, and then I trie...
I've been using figma a lot on work but now interested for Open Source alternative. Is there anything like that?
Is there a way to scale the combined size of the fill and the stroke to certain dimensions without affecting the thickness of the stroke?
I have some text and a shape created in photoshop. I am trying to do some blending options to the shape and then merge it into the text, so that the shape disappears, apart from the bit that is inside the text. How do I achieve this? This is what I have right now: I want this rectangle to disappear into the text so I...
I'm currently designing a custom font that includes a large number of ligatures using FontForge. While nearly all the defined ligatures function, there's one class that doesn't render as expected in Chrome (or any other tested browser) despite functioning correctly in the Metrics preview in Fortforge. The font is compi...
When I click the "Channel" dropdown in the Curves tool in GIMP, the available options are "Value", "Red", "Green", "Blue", and "Alpha". However, I do not see any way to adjust Hue, Saturation, or Value curves. How do I do this?
I don't understand how to make these blurry shapes. Should I use PS or AI? Thanks in advance
Does anyone know how to write/draw like in this video? https://youtu.be/L4faHv_iRtU The way he writes letters (e.g. e, sin, x...) seems "sticky" and I really want to know how to achieve this technique.
I have following photo, I would use a text on the left side, but neigther white not black fits well. Is it any trick / filter I can apply to make look good? Try to use this image: https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/dating-at-bar-gm471094306-63343095 I woudl buy the image without water marks later.
If I save an SVG of an Illustrator graphic it is unsatisfying. How can I save SVG files with complex graphics with shading and 3D effects?
To help me find Contrastive/Complementary colors, I have been relying on websites like https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/a/3815, https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/a/5159, https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/a/8084, https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/a/16445, https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/...
I just recently bought a UV light box. I’m wondering how long to expose Speedball emulsion in this UV light box. The lights are about 6 inches (~15 cm) from the glass top, so basically the lights are underneath the glass top. I tried three minutes the other day, and it worked out pretty well, so I’m wondering when I ge...
I am asking merely about this Hue/Saturation method (described here as Method 2) — NOT the Layer method (described here as Add a Layer Mask). I know the Hue/Saturation method is worse, because Hue/Saturation doesn't let you adjust Lightness independently. If you do, you wash out the shadows. Question 1. I picked blue...
Goal I want to cut out a horizontal (or vertical) slice of the image so that it is fully removed and the image has reduced dimensions. I would like to do so in Photoshop CS6. original target Approach: Snagit Editor In Snagit Editor, there is a "Cut Out" tool that does exactly this. Approach: Photoshop I am able to d...
As you can see on the object to the left in the picture below the horizontal lines is perfectly centered relative to each other on the horizontal axis. How can I do the same on the object to the right? I have selected the 2 nodes on the top of the object but how do I center them vertically relative to the bottom 2 node...
I generated several figures for a manuscript using Lucidchart and exported these figures as PDF. Because the journal I am submitting to requires images to be in CMYK color space, I used GIMP and the Cyan app/plugin (for OS X) to import the PDFs and export them as TIFs in CMYK color space. The automated image checker fo...
I am trying to recreate the below icon in Figma. I have the background color (#F3764A) but since each Dimond is transparent, I cannot get the actual hex color or the opacity which make recreating it really hard. I tried getting a approximate color and changing the opacity but nothing works. Somehow, this was the best ...
Say I'm using a single colored square - Red. I want to create a circular (clock style) clone of the square. Each clone being a different shade (from red to yellow and back to red, for example. Say, 24 clones, 15 degree shift, 360 degrees total. How would I go about accomplishing this? Maybe a Path Effect might also wor...
Is there a way in adobe illustrator to change all same letters to a specific colour, ideally based on a rule. For example look at the image below: I'd like to have a "rule" (something like character styles) where by applying it to any text it would change each letter colour as in the rule automatically. An ideally too...
When cropping a large number of images in Adobe Bridge via Camera Raw, it would be a great time saver to map a keyboard shortcut to the Done button in lower right corner. The Enter (Return⁣ – on a Mac) key closes the Camera Raw window, but it also opens the image in Adobe Photoshop, which is not desirable. Is there a w...
I have an existing Photoshop file which contains several layers. Each layer is a square shape filled with a solid color. I want to change the color of the squares to Lab values. For example I want one square to be filled with L=50, a=0, b=-20. How do I do this? I am a Photoshop novice.
I'm looking to try to replicate the halftone/bitmap effect on the t-shirt reference, so as to do my owns ~ in time ~ with such cool visual effects :))
I would like to increase the border width of a yellow image border and perform this action within a batch process for multiple similar images within Photoshop. So far I performed the following steps and tried to save them as "actions" to allow their use in batch processing: increase canvas size around the image with t...
I have an illustration with two compound paths which are on separate layers. What I would like to do is to have one sub layer with both compound paths.
My dev team need icons without padding, so I want some bullet points so I can convince them of the importance of padding in icon design.
I'd like some help on a logo design I have going for my gaming studio - something about this doesn't feel like a cohesive whole. My instinct is to look for a font that matches the aesthetic of the mark but any additional pointers are welcome. Thanks!
What is the best way to describe these type of visual patterns of diagonals stacked on top of each other? Is this a type of style or pattern with a proper name?
I am trying to make a basic cartoon soccer ball with a hexagon and pentagon pattern using Inkscape and I was watching this Adobe Illustrator tutorial because I could not find a tutorial for Inkscape: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9L6RdHBQtY and at the time 3:50 in the video the teacher uses some tool called 3D resol...
I am preparing figures that will be displayed on screen but also printed in black & white. These figures contain several 3d cube shapes that need to be distinguished from one another. Here is one example: There are too many cubes (5-6 in general) to be able to choose colors that will stay different enough when convert...
Good Morning, I am wanting to make a LED sign that uses a 6mm wide led strip with the text "Mi Frijolito", that looks like this, which is 1.5m long and 0.5m wide. . So the main issue I am having is I don't no how to make the cutout of the LED strip match the text design but also have equal spacing while the cut being...
I'm trying to figure out on how can I make symmetric Bezier curves. Symmetric here means something different than InkScape's interpretation: Consider this path segment: I want to make it symmetric to each other like this: So I'm looking for the key-combination or technique to grab only one side of a path, and adjust ...
As a Windows 10 user, I found Inkscape is easier to learn as its commands and menus are intuitive as opposed to Adobe Illustrator. For instance, in the case of Adobe Illustrator, as a self-learner, a simple copy-paste operation takes several days to learn (actually, I still don't know how to do that). Because, if there...
I'm trying to figure out what this font is. It looks similar to Cormorant and Adobe Jenson, but it's not quite it. I've attached the example. Thank you! I really appreciate it!
I have two simple paths: As you can see, the circle is not quite matching to the corners of the 2nd shape. Closer look: I converted everything into paths, but I can't realise how can I make that small move on the circle upwards to match these 3 lines? So to illustrate: how can I move the circle up to make the red dot...
I am not sure what to call this problem, but the laser printer (HP Color Laser Jet Pro) is doubling some of the print where it shouldn't be in a faint way. How could I fix this, or what is this problem called? Thank you!
Whenever I create a new text frame it creates inset spacing as a default and I have to keep removing it. I am not sure why, I have made some text boxes within the document have inset spacing and maybe its remembering that, its not part of any character or paragraph styles I made and I tried creating a text box with no ...
I would like to leverage the might and convention of Apple's standard colors, however they only provide one shade per color. I would like to create about 10 shades per color for light and dark mode. Has somebody made such a palette? My initial thought was to convert the system colors to hsl and then apply increments of...
I purchased and adapted a vector graphic in RGB that I want to send to a printing bureau. The directions state: When uploading: Convert text to outline Remove template lines before saving Keep the provided file dimensions Use 300 dpi as native resolution Apply FOGRA 39 color profile Avoid cropping marks and color ref...
Im a digital marketing apprentice and one of my jobs is to design leaflets and promotional content. So I have been trying to work on my graphic design in my free time, i would love some feedback on this leaflet. I have no academic background in design but i do have a background in art. Please be as bruteally honest as ...
I have a bunch of tables where I'm using a title paragraph in the header as cross references in a table of contents. Some of these tables are quite long so I have the header set to be repeating so when I need to have the table continue on another page, all the header stuff is there as well. The issue I'm having is that...
I had this question previously, but it is not working anymore with Photoshop 2022: How to quickly get inside of this magic wand tool border selection - complex image I don't know why. So here a new question. Here is an example image: I select its white border like this with magic wand: Now how do I get inside of this...
I am about to order custom playing cards from a manufacturer. The directions are: FRONTS AND BACKS (ONE SINGLE MULTIPAGE PDF FILE IN SEQUENCE FRONT/BACK FRONT/BACK) When uploading: Convert text to outline Remove template lines before saving Keep the provided file dimensions Use 300 dpi as native resolution Apply FOGR...
Following Conversion from RGB to CMYK loses mesh gradient transparency , I replaced the mesh gradients with simple transparency gradients in Illustrator CS5.1. Note that the blue and red emojis have white spots on the eyes and a gradient in the face color: When I save as a PDF with Uncoated FOGRA 29 color profile, tho...
The exact same animation rendered as a 30 mb mp4 video, as well as a 30 mb gif animation, we would see the web server struggle to load the Gif animation for autoplay even though both files are the exact same size for the identical animation. Why is this? What makes web streaming so difficult for loading Gifs versus loa...
In the computer software Blender, there is an apply button when using a mirror. When you have pressed that, you can change one side of the previously mirrored object and the other stays the same. How do I do this when using a mirror symmetry - path effect in Inkscape? Thanks in advance.
I've created the following image in Photoshop (500x500 res). Each layer in the image is made with the shape tool. The image I've created looks great on my personal device and in Photoshop. However, I noticed that when uploading the avatar to Twitter and GitHub--it doesn't look good at all. Below is what the image look...
There're many free pixel-style fonts available, like FontsArena's W95FA and wixette's Dotted Chinese Pixel Fonts with Unicode support. However, when trying to use those pixel-style fonts into pixel art, they are not pixel-perfect and blurry, or have broken outlines. In Photoshop, anti-aliasing set to none, 7px high: ...
I have a font with OpenType alternates that I want to use in a program that doesn't support the selection of OpenType stylistic sets (like my game engine). For example, I may want to use the non-default single-storey "a" from Montserrat, while keeping the angular capital "A". Is there a program I can use to bake in onl...
I'm trying to find a suitable pipeline for projects, using pictures. I'd need to obtain, at the end, a SVG with a lot of details instead of a huge black and white mush. Here is an exemple : Credits : Legends of Runeterra from Riot Games From this picture, I'd like to get a SVG in black and white where almost all the d...
I created a design in Illustrator by drawing a series of paths with the pen tool. I then grouped, duplicated, and reflected, to make the shape symmetrical. I then added stroke width, and created a stroke outline. I intend to export it as an SVG, but I cannot figure out how to remove the internal geometry: I have tried...
I’m new to InDesign. I know how to make a numbered list in InDesign and also how to style the numbers (font, colors). But I want behind each number to be a banner I have made in Illustrator. I need something like the result in the following screenshot.
I would like to have a code listing with alignment in HTML. This is an example of how it is supposed to look: In this example, the beginning of the second line is aligned with the beginning of the last line, the parentheses before “url”, “method” and “parameters” are aligned, and the columns of symbols starting with c...
In this example i would like to turn the background white and when you look at the scattered hair it obviously is really hard if not impossible when using the magic wand tool. The magic wand tool does not make the cut. Since it is quite clear that there is the contrasting regions of dark (hair) and light region (backgr...
What are the problems with how the data is represented in the following graphs? What alternative plotting method can be used to better convey the information? For the ten states graph, I think it may be better to show the number of homeless rather than rate, as a similar rate can be from very different numbers. For t...
Basically the way paint bucket can fill a region with color I would like to do that except fill a region with a pattern. Crossposted here Not the same as this as I'm only filling a region not an object e.g. replace the orange, yellow, blue etc here with different patterns
My apologies if the terms are not the best, I just started using Inkscape yesterday. I am using this software to transform any image into SVGs with shades of grey. On the picture down below I did 9 passes in grey level of a tree image. I then get a grey version based on the 9 passes that are combined. I need a lot of p...
When I go to fill and stroke -> fill -> pattern how do I select a color for the pattern? Selecting a color removes the pattern and vice versa. Even when I precolor the region with the correct color, pattern fill selects seemingly arbitrary colors. Also posted to Inkscape Forums
Given the fact that the RGB color space does not include all colors (perceptible by human eye), is there a place where I can see all colors? Like, a museum of materials that reflect a color beyond RGB? Maybe monitors that uses additive colors other than RGB (or extends RGB)? Please don't say anything like "go outside, ...
I am new to svg and trying to understand the arches and curves. After reading the documentation I understand on how to build arches and curves with Q and C, but I can't quite get to the right result when I am trying to draw. Here is the example of what I have drawn so far: const width = Dimensions.get('window').width; ...
I have a map that I have assembled from many equally sized squares and now wonder if there is a way to make photoshop automatically fit all of the pieces together to remove any gaps and overlaps instead of me moving them by one-two pixel at a time. Thank you.
I need half-art-half-engineering software to draw diagrams of the design concepts (mostly 2D). I need something that let me type the coordinates, can toggle snapping the mouse to the grid like AutoCAD, and edit the colors and line widths as well as bucket-fill a space like Photoshop. So this software can replace my col...
I'm making a design with the following shape: I'm trying to make both sides of this diamond shaped object have an identical angle (using the Anchor Point Tool). I've tried to manually replicate it on both sides, but haven't been successful.
I'm trying to place an .ai file into my InDesign file, but for some reason it seems like the 3d effects and drop shadow aren't showing up in my InDesign file. Here's a pic of my artboard in Illustrator: And here's a pic of the same file placed in InDesign: Does anyone know why this is happening and how I can fix it?
I'm trying to create a figure like the following: I want to be able to convert it to Tikz code (it's for some math notes) so I'm trying to replicate it on Inkscape first. The problem is I'm very new to Inkscape, so I don't really know how to proceed and I haven't found a clear explanation on how I could achieve this. ...
I stepped away from print design for a while and forget somethings and I have rush job. With latest version of adobe illustrator and setting up CMYK gradient's to transparent on top of other CMYK colors. Do I need to check the "Overprint Fill" when setting up the gradients? Or is this just for PMS colors? (When I built...
I'd like to replace, in GIMP, the white in this image with another color, like blue, but without affecting the dark grey that's on the left side of the gradient transition between the white and the grey. I'd like to preserve the shape and intensity of the gradient but just have it be a transition from dark grey to blue...
I started with the full letter S and wanted to split it into three but when getting just the middle part no matter how I do it (with scissors, closing the end with pen, deleting anchors then moving the ends down ect) I always end up with the image below: Is there a way to make the middle segment of the S fully black? ...
I have been looking for a cross-platform friendly typeface, and in this regard Georgia seemed like a safe choice - or so I thought. After using it for a few days on MacOS, it seemed a bit off in some circumstances. Some text frankly didn't look good. On Windows 10 this never was a problem. This led to a direct comparis...
I am trying to draw a spoke pattern with 300 spokes converging on a circle at the center in Adobe Illustrator. I would like each spoke to represent a different category at the end. And the middle circle will represent an umbrella category. I can individually draw 300 separate lines but there might be an easier and effi...
I've placed a file with footnotes from Word into InDesign, but the length of the divider line is narrow on some and full column width on others. I've applied a paragraph style to achieve the correct hanging indent for the text, but no rule is applied. The divider line is perfectly consistent in the original Word docume...

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