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Any help is appreciated. Thanks
https://mockups-design.com/free-box-in-grid-layout-mockup/
The green design on the left of each box is being duplicated to every layer selected for that side of each box mockup. There is multiple boxes and [their] sides to edit, but it's applying to all, when I want a different design o... |
Suppose I have this dummy project where I set guides on my workspace
How would I now export this in three different images?
I would like to have one image for each guide block such that
The first image holds the text Lorem ips on the right
The second image holds the text m on the left and lore on the right
The third ... |
This is my first attempt at designing a font.
I created SVGs in Adobe Illustrator 2022 from editing an open-source font, typing, then converting the text to paths, then manipulating before saving as an SVGs. I then imported them into FontForge, which I am fairly new to, but some of the SVGs aren't displaying as intende... |
I have multiple pictures of different resolutions.
Three of those pictures are without an object and exactly like I want them, but they are really small (2x smaller than wanted at minimum), and I have a good-looking big picture, but with an object blocking about 20% of it.
Is there a way, software, website or etc. to r... |
How do I join two curves with straight lines in affinity designer?
Here is a screenshot of the curves separated:
This is what I end up with when I join nodes and close the path. I would like to connect with straight lines only.
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In Acrobat DC it seems that the standard 'Select All' command doesn't have the capacity to select all content of all pages. It only does it for the current page in view.
With this limitation in mind, if I want to change the type style/size/color of content across a document how can I do it ?
I'm so surprised by this l... |
Can a brush be created in Photoshop to make it look like the white board marker brush strokes in the below picture? I tried several brushes but none seems to achieve the below kind of an effect.
Help, please?
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It's about the following image: https://vsthemes.org/en/wallpapers/games/35866-assassins-creed-origins-egyptian-hi.html
I would like to adjust this as follows:
The light beam on the top right of the image should be gone, so that the whole background looks the same / is the same dark as the left part of the image. At t... |
Let's say that I have received info that ink limit should be 300% (this might or might not be accurate), but no info about the specific profile. I convert the files to Iso coated v2 300.
What happens, if the print house is using another profile? Does the printer/print process change the ink values in the pictures, or d... |
I'm trying to learn about typography and I made this image, but I wasn't sure this was the arm because it's at the bottom of the letter. Can anyone help, please?
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I'm learning about perspective in Adobe Illustrator and and came across the effect used in this image (https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/brf6ph/hotel_in_germany_uses_3d_carpets_to_prevent/).
I'd like to recreate the sinkhole effect seen on the centre of the carpet.
I believe it could be done with an E... |
The letters are D&S.
In fact, other tools don't recognize this letters because I think the letters are black with dark background.
This come from a photo of a flyer of my client: D&S Esthetic, Center of Aesthetic.
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thank you for your replies.
I am new here and i didnt explain correctly.
So let me explain better the situation.
TASK (What i want to do)
The initial file is .png and has these settings: 333 dpi, width=14.015 inches and height=18.018 inches
I have to convert it to CMYK to work with it and then i have to export it as PN... |
I know, we can define layers(e.g. text layers) as variables and import data to change the contents of these layers.
(Image -> Variables -> Define)
But I have an excel file with lot of rows of texts and their font sizes. Is it possible to define the font size as a variable, as well? or is there another way to import i... |
Newbie here!
I am creating a family cookbook and using the opportunity to learn InDesign. With Paragraph Styles, my most recent pain-point has been adding "space before" and "space after" certain styles. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't - I compare each of the Paragraph Styles to see what is different betwe... |
I am wanting to add an effect texture and customise the foreground/background colours but when I go into the effects panel its black and white even when I change the swatch colours. I was assuming it works the same way photoshop does?
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Background
During my online D&D session I grab period screen captures of the active window which is showing a 2D map or the area my token can see. As a result, all the images are the exact same size, and part of the image I do not want to keep are always in the exact same spot and the exact same size. My ultimate goa... |
I start by saying that I am new in the world of Photoshop. I was making some changes to a gif, I had finished making some changes, and I was going to continue the next day, so I saved and turned off the PC.
The next day I opened my file, and all the levels are gone, except one called “background”, does anyone know what... |
This is my first time posting on this forum, so please be gentle :) I'm not an expert in these areas so apologies if my questions are ignorant, or if people have solved these problems a million times before and my googling just isn't good enough.
I am currently an indie developer who is making a 2D game which includes ... |
Can anyone help me find this font's name please? It's from a song called mental chainsaw, tried font identification sites and it was not helpful unfortunately
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I want to do a action but I think that with a script is better, but I´m not good at it:
I want to duplicate my current artboard and resize this new artboard to 30cmx30cm, and make a mask on it, somebody can help me with this please.
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I'm trying to recreate the Captain Planet logo as shown below, but I'm having trouble with the one-point perspective effect on the text.
My first thought was to use Photoshop's 3D effects, but it's slow, buggy and deprecated anyway. I then thought about a hard drop shadow effect, rasterizing the layer style and the te... |
I have been searching the font name using a couple of services like Fontspring Matcherator, WhatTheFont! and Photoshop CC. Alas, I'm not able to find the name of the font. Can someone please identify this font? I would appreciate your help!
The text written by this font is: "S.Walkowiak"
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This file was created in photoshop & illustrator, and I'll be printing it digitally on a color laser copier at Kinkos. As you can see, there are a lot of very light tones and that when printed, a good portion of the underlying paper will show through. And if I were printing on white paper, it would be fine. However, I... |
Status quo:
Modern Arabic script does not allow breaking words or hyphenation for line breaks and paragraph justification, words are always to be kept whole.
No word break, no hyphenation:
Desired outcome:
Just like old Arabic manuscripts, and without hyphenation, I would like the ability to automatically break words ... |
I am trying to create this shape in Illustrator and finding it particularly difficult:
Creating a circle and cutting it into thirds isn't that difficult but rounding the corners similarly on each side is a bit more tedious - I can't think of how to round the corners another way than making a complex cookie cutter shap... |
I am trying to think of a way to make this shape in Illustrator, is it a shape that encloses two circular gears (below is the hand drawn, non geometric shape I have now):
This is as far as I have gotten, but I can't seem to think of how to make the "angle" between the two circles into a rounded angle:
How can this be... |
i have these grouped objects in Illustrator and i want to vertically distribute the space between them.
It used to work but maybe i did something wrong that i don't know of
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Inkscape, for reasons unclear to me, saves by default in bloated format.
Fortunately there is "plain SVG" option when saving.
How can I make it the default?
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ALL,
I needed an SVG for my program so I started playing with the inkscape (this software was recommended to me by my *nix distro).
I installed the latest one in their repository and was able to successfully create a test SVG, which was successfully loaded inside my program. However:
In the Inkscape I see a white backg... |
Recently I came across few images which I liked but not sure what there are called and how there are created. Which software is used?
If possible please provide tutorial Blog as well for my reference.
PFA,
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Perhaps a noob question, but I come from a Blender background and I'm having trouble in handling the different ways of deleting in Maya. Blender has a thing where it always asks you 'what' you want to delete among your selection. Like, even if you've selected edges, it asks if you want to delete those edges or the vert... |
This is a follow-up question on the comments here: What happens if a commercial printer is using another profile than a file sent to be printed is converted to?
I made a print-ready PDF and dug inside Acrobat to see what it has eaten. I have made the output intent fogra39 in the export and am sure of this. When I open ... |
I designed a book cover in Photoshop in RGB Colour Mode, as it was going to be used as an eBook cover. However, I now need to design a full wrap book jacket which needs to be in CMYK Colour Mode.
When I convert the colour modes, it loses its colour and desaturates a little. Is there any way I can convert it without los... |
I am new to Adobe Illustrator. I am working on two versions of a project, in two window tabs, at the same time. I want to compare these two windows. However, the position of the "viewport" of these two window tabs are different. I want to place the window views exactly identically for both, so that when flipping betwee... |
Inkscape
Im trying to recreate this image. How can I get lines in the semi-circle between with equal intervals (shown in image).
I have tried to use a collection of squares and then curve it (edit path by node) but it doesnt seem to work.
The colour gradient and numbers are fairly understandable to get, just having a... |
When I press the Delete key or use the Edit -> Clear option, GIMP instead 2.10 instead fills my selection with my background color. How can I actually delete (set alpha to zero) the selected pixels?
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Is it still necessary to trap or over print your artwork in illustrator or Photoshop in 2022? Or does illustrator and Photoshop automatically do this?
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I wanted to export my work in PDF from illustrator, but I have a problem my lines of the flower are very visible I don't know how to do it for make it smooth. I don't know my be it's normal. you can help me. thank you
All my settings is high quality
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I have to make a logo for a customer and I would like to use a font from Google Font, but can I edit it on illustrator? I have seen that Google Fonts are also free for commercial use, but are they editable? I’m talking about convert the text to a vector outline and change some anchor points.
Thank you!
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So among a bunch of problems that I've run into while trying to make a mouth, I've come across a workaround that kind of works. I make two paths: one "lip path" (the primary and clip path), and one mouth path (the background of the mouth). I also make a clipPath and use the lips as the path (which I need to reference t... |
I have a little video animation. I want to change the backgroud color (Part of built-in Video) from black to white throughout the whole video without disturbing the main focused logo (RED logo).
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I have an overlay I want to drape on top of another map of SC for a project. The screenshot below is supposed to be an overlay, and the vectors came from ArcGIS Pro. If you are unfamiliar with GIS software, ArcGIS Pro & Adobe Illustrator have a plugin called Maps for Adobe which provides additional interoperability bet... |
Whenever I export these tables from InDesign to a PFD file, shaded rows appear as different colors, even though they are exactly matching in the original file. Is there are way to fix this? Color conversion isn't selected when exporting.
Sorry, I didn't provide enough info. I'm new to both InDesign and StackExchange. I... |
I have 60 artboards in illustrator with different objects on them, some of the objects aren't centred. I am trying to reflect each individual object along the X-axis of its respective artboard. I have tried creating a box the size of the artboard and selecting the object and the box but still, the object mirrors in pla... |
I'm working with some vector text in Illustrator and have been playing around with the Pixelate effects in the effects panel (which are under the "Photoshop effects" category).
I'd like to vectorize this now-pixelated text, however, rasterizing the effects and then using "image trace" doesn't really work.
Is there an ... |
I work in a company, but not as a graphic designer. I also studied graphic design, so they asked me to make an infographic on what to do in case of earthquakes. They will not pay me for it. My question is if I should sign my work, since I also do digital illustration and graphic design as a freelancer.
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I have seen this before but I cannot find it via Google Images, nor via other font identifiers. I know I used it before, back when my workstation was Windows. I have already traced the other object and I'm just lacking this type.
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Basically, I want to draw this:
to represent some pressure distribution over a surface. I have tried this video tutorial and this page, but this is what I get:
and here are my "Pattern Along Path" settings:
I would appreciate it if you could help me know what is the... |
I an forced to use a template in ppt and in some cells of the template I get a very extrange behaviour:
"Click to add subtitle" appears in very rare fonts
When I press some letters in my keyboard, for example "s", other letters appear in the screen.
I attach an screenshot. Any idea what could be happening?
Thanks!
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I'd like to obtain a vertical dashed line with the dashes having a single color. The way I though to go about this is by stroking a rectangle and removing three out of the four sides to obtain a single vertical dashed line.
I did the following:
i.) File->New...
ii.) Select rectangle
iii.) Select->To Path
iv.) Edit-... |
I am starting a library. I will be scanning the books. What dpi do i need to make the best records for the future and the archivest who be looking in years to come?
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I'm trying to send an AI file as an EPS file for engraving and they want only the artwork inside/on the active artboard - because I started with a file of many artboards and then separated them into 20 different files, with an individual artboard in each file but elements of the neighbouring artboards' design (text on ... |
I need to rasterize vector objects in PDF files, possibly with Acrobat.
I need to rasterize only vector objects, not text.
I've tried separating PDF layers in multiple files, printing vector objects as images and then recombining the PDFs but the procedure is too complex, heavy and slow (sometimes I have to rasterize 1... |
I'm designing a 36"x48" poster in Adobe Illustrator and I want to work at 1/6th scale to keep file size low.
I have to include raster images as part of this project. Working at 1/6th scale means that I'll have to shrink those down within Illustrator.
So my question is, when this is scaled up from 1/6th to full dimensio... |
I'm new to Graphic Design. I use Gimp and I'm trying to create a blurry flower-like or star-like shape, starting from the circle below. I have a hard time looking up how to do this, because I don't know what this effect is called and I can't find an example.
The following is the closest I can find to an example, but I... |
I know this sounds silly, but this one of the reasons I prefer to work on Windows – one feature in MS Paint...
When you select something in MS Paint, you can move that selection with arrow keys. If you also hold Shift key – somehow it will “patch” the hole with pixels of your selection. Basically, you can easily stretc... |
I am fairly new to screen printing, and I am taking on the challenge of screen printing some jerseys for my soccer team.
I have these plain white Nike shirts and I want to screen print a basic pattern onto the front only. The shirt has the sleeves curve into the middle, so I can not just put a rectangle mesh on top of ... |
I wanted to practice some image tracing and I wanted to adjust some colors etc. But when I try to edit an original photo in Photoshop, the image opens as rotated, and after the changes it also opens as rotated at AI as well.
What could be the reason?
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I'm having this problem with illustrator where, even though I have already changed all units to millimeters (general, stroke and type), the measurements of artboards and canvases are still being measure in points, both in the suggested presets like in the image here
as well as when making a custom one. What do I have ... |
I initially had a vector mask, which I then realise that I needed to fade some stuff out, but it didn't work in a vector mask. I then converted the vector mask into a layer mask which it rasterised, but my image disappeared.
Is there any way to convert it without it changing anything?
If not, is there an easy way to fa... |
TL;DR... I'd like to begin using vector apps without creating bad habits, and would like advice what to chose and what to avoid.
I'm on a tight budget and would like a low cost alternative to Illustrator for creating and editing vector graphics. What I don't want to do however is start with one that has non-standard ... |
I am new to graphic design and I need some help. I am currently making a logo for myself and I would like to have a photo as a background. When I wanted to purchase a photo, license states you can not use it for logo. Do you know where I can buy an image and then use it as a part of a logo??? Thank you for your inform... |
I wonder if I could use a larger drawing tablet (e.g., a 22" or 24" model) as a regular monitor or if there are drawbacks why one shouldn't do it. I've seen that people are using it similar to a monitor when drawing, but I do not know if they use it as a monitor when doing other things as well and what the drawbacks ma... |
I am looking for a type font which could the one used in this form. It is an old 1950s/1960s font that can be seen here:
Specifically I am interested in the font used in the different fields of the form (PROGRAM, PROGRAMMER, DATE, FORTRAN STATEMENT" and the numbers.
If the font can be used freely that would be a plus.... |
Despite many people asking about calibration, I couldn't find an answer to the following (imo important) question:
.
Why are so many displays incorrectly or un-calibrated, in other words inaccurate, even when they can display a whole specific color space like e.g. P3?
.
Are all displays simply individually different in... |
I have several guides in Inkscape that converge in a certain area, making snapping to the one I want difficult. Is there a way to just hide certain guides but leave others visible?
I know you can "hide all guides" but I still need a couple of them to be visible for snapping to.
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I want to cut out unwanted full height or full width portion of an image. For example, in below gif image, I'm cutting out unwanted full height portion from the image. How to do this in PhotoShop or Gimp? I have both software installed and I will choose which one is simpler.
Update
The use case is when you want to rem... |
How can we create star shapes like the one highlighted below, in a simple way?
Currently, I am taking it this way:
Creating a circle
Adding a line around it (with some slight rotation)
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Every time I try to create a custom shape using the pen and turn it into 3D, it becomes a "hole" in a rectangular prism instead of being the inverse.
I am an amateur so pardon if the question is stupid.
How do I solve this?
Expected output is below:
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When I want to export my artwork, this is positioned in the left margin. How to do to be centred? I'll add a screenshot to explain that better. Thank you!
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I have this image from an old website I have to modify.
I want to change the composition of the image, but this layer is already merged. I found the original background layer from an older source file, but I cannot find the layer with the computers.
I wonder if there is some kind of "comparison" filter that lets you s... |
How can i fix the image along the path, I want to have 10-12 image in circular path. The logo should bend and adjust the shape of the circle and copies of 10-12. With the vector or text (fit to path) we can adjust with the path, How it work with image. Any suggestion or help.
Try with this logo
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I am new to Illustrator, I was following a youtube video on how to type on a path. When I type on my path the path line itself remains.
I need to remove the line that I pointed to in the screenshot.
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I have an image with a lot of white with intricate transparency. Basically it's like this example but white [used black background for visibility, click for more accurate example].
I want to preferably in paint.NET turn it let's say red, like how with a color image you can use the hue tool to transform anything from o... |
I have a line drawing that I turned into a bitmap in Inkscape (with Path > Trace Bitmap). I would like to fill certain areas of the drawing with an image.
I tried various options in Path. I also tried to convert both the image and the line drawing to path, but it doesn't work. Clipping and masking is not what I want, b... |
I'm creating a poster in Inkscape using various complex objects containing a lot of nodes. Inkscape is lagging quite a lot lately and so I thought I could edit the separate objects in separate files first and combine them later. This does have many downsides (like not being able to compare the multiple objects to one a... |
I'm trying to model a bottle made for sunscreen in SketchUp Make, however Cinema 4D works too. I am proficient enough at the programs to make basic circular shapes, but there's a slanted edge at the top of the bottle, that is gatekeeping me from finishing the model. I've seen numerous modelling tutorials and I still do... |
In Inkscape, I try to "name" some dimensions (x, h, d etc).
What is the "classic" way to add such indicators like in picture? I don't need to measure, but to name a dimension.
for b I tried "path effects"=> "measure segments", that is painful, I can't place the letter in the middle of the line and give enough space a... |
I am new to making a InDesign document print ready (magazine) and I am facing a problem that I could not find the answer to from other threads.
What I have:
InDesign double page spread
Pictures spanning over facing pages
goal: export without inner bleed so that these pictures don't get "cut" in the middle
Problem: Ex... |
I have this tree shape artwork and i want to trim hole (which are spotted with black color). I tried with all the trim options, Did not work.
How can i trim. Any other way or option
File
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Is there a way to make an arrow just touch the line it points to?
The question is same as to this one in superuser
the type of arrow does not matter, just to make it work
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I'm trying to record a Photomerge action in Adobe Photoshop, so that I can re-use this action for batch photo merging. However I'm only able to record the first step of the Photomerge, i.e: Layout and Source File select window.
How can I also record subsequent actions for the Photomerge function? Such as layout select ... |
I've created a version manually, but it has small errors and I want to create an automated one (attached my manual one here):
I thought it would have something to do with the Rotate option within the Transform > Rotate panel, or maybe in the Effect > Distort & Transform > Transform panel. But nothing lets me increase ... |
I am a developer and I don't know much about web portfolios but:
I'm looking for standard format/size/resolution/quality/compression/file-size for a photographic portfolio website.
For instance, is there a standard defined for each device?
I can imagine a photographer image has to be larger if viewed in a big screen ra... |
i want the spiral to tighten towards the end. It should have the shape of the blue triangle. How can I make this happen?
However, the spiral itself should still look natural. The spiral should in the end look like the one in the last picture (become extremely tight towards the end)....
Thanks for your advice!
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Hi I am trying to see the live update in the adobe xd app but I am not able to do so, is it some kind of update that xd has come with?
I am using a Windows 10 Laptop and Tried connecting my USB cable with my mobile device.
But When I am clicking on preview it is showing that I need to see the designs using the mobile a... |
This is the thumbnail of a music clip, and I was wondering how to achieve this look on a picture but have no idea what to even look for:
It could be just a type of camera and/or photographic film.
Does anyone have an idea?
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I'm writing a book and it requires an immense amount of footnotes, endnotes and a bibliography. I started in Word, and after 200 references and 300 citations, Word is slow and clunky. I am now switching to Mellel.
My question is what would be a good workflow to bring the Mellel document into InDesign that would make ... |
I have an Illustrator file with thousands of objects. I want to search the Layers pane to find hidden objects (e.g., move to the next hidden object in the pane). I do not want to show all objects, don't want to search for text in hidden objects, I want to know what objects (and layers) are currently hidden.
Thanks!
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I'm in prepress and for a long time I have know that it is a no-no to have images non-proportionally scaled but no one has ever explained why? Does it error out when it gets to the RIP? What is the problem with stretching an image just a little bit more in one direction?
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Im somewhat new to figma so forgive me if this is a basic question. What is the best way to create a partial outline? For example,
I initially duplicated the rectangle and made it a bit bigger, but the proportions for the curve were no longer correct.
Thank you in advance
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I am wanting to copy a pages grid layout and margins to my A-Parent (master) page. So far I have tried to drag the whole page in the pages panel to A-Parent but then it has made two new parent pages.
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Is there actually a typographical benefit to variable fonts? Or is it just the font companies trying to justify new purchases?
I remember Adobe Multiple Masters (and Apple's GX fonts too), which were the cause of all sorts of problems, but the utility of specifying 'slightly not quite as Bold'; 'slightly more compresse... |
I can create 3d ball (spherical) shape with GIMP but now I need round surface that's curved inward. How can I do with GIMP?
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I'm looking to print a photo as part of Illustrator Artwork I'm creating - the photo is currently in a Figma file, though, and I see that I cannot export it in TIFF format.
What would be the best way to move the photo in Figma to Illustrator for print?
Thanks
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Pitch is the number of (monospaced) letters, numbers and spaces in one inch (25.4 mm) of running text, that is, characters per inch (abbreviated cpi). The pitch was most often used as a measurement of the size of typewriter fonts as well as those of impact printers used with computers.
The most widespread fonts in typ... |
I'm trying to convert many shapes delimited by straight lines (green in figure below) into shapes delimited by sigmoid curves (i.e., starts horizontal, curves upward, ends horizontal). This is for an alluvial plot.
This is the basic shape and its intended transformation:
Is there a way of doing this automatically, wit... |
Paint 3D seems to be a very user-friendly software; one that can easily manipulate 3D shapes and objects. I was trying to find online what cool and useful things I can do with it but I couldn't find much.
I am not from a graphic design background. Just a random guy who once opened Paint 3D. I sit and play with it for l... |
I've been trying to figure this out for a while but can't seem to, so I'm asking here.
Imagine I have an original image, like for instance this one:
Then I mess with it a bit, add some tinting, add some clouds, and get this image at the end:
However, suppose I lost the history of the changes I made, so that at the en... |
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