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To change the stroke width of an object, you may use, e.g., the Stroke style tab of the Fill and Stroke dialog, or the context menu of the Stroke width in the selected style indicator:                     But the change of the stroke width is not continuous. Is it possible to continuously changing the stroke width by d...
What's the name for this style of lettering? It makes me think of Victorian, but I wonder if there's a name for this particular style? Also, can anyone help me find this font?
I am working on a needlework embroidery generator and I want it to be able to generate simulations of the final embroidery. I came across an image which looks like what I need and from the metadata I was able to tell it was produced with Photoshop. Does anyone recognize the filter/effect applied on the original image s...
I need a circle (must be a vector) with two colors in it. If I divide the circle into two part equally and color them differently and Apply pathfinder -unite they become one and pick only one color. Ant way I can do that in Adobe illustrator?
I have several RGB images in a game that are used as "references" to create other images. Below there are three examples of references: "R-male.png", "Fish.png", "Arrows.png". For each mask, I show three result images with altered colors. I found out that RGB are replaced with specific colors. For instance, the green i...
In Illustrator sometimes in one layer we have to draw many things. and I want to select them all in a fast way. Neither double click on the main layer or shift click the sublayers works, How can I select many sublayers in Illustrator?
My energy provider goes around bragging about how green they are. However, their invoices are using some combination of colors that prevents me to quickly print it with minimal ink. Until now, I used to open the PDF in photoshop, grayscale and print, but that blue headers (see the sample) turns pretty dark even in gray...
I don't understand something. If I transfer a vector shape/design into some pixel based software like Photoshop or After Effects it gets pixelated. Why? The basic structure of any vector shape is not 'raster'. It should stay as it is no matter where ever I take/transfer it. But no! It forgets who it is whenever it sees...
I am very noob in Photoshop. I want to draw a tree with leaves, just to practice following the original psd file. But no way I can achieve the same level of excellency the original one has. I tried both pen tool (shape) and Brush tool. Neither way works. And also the layer indicated that (from original file) that the t...
I have defined four paragraph styles and would like the space between them to work "in pairs". First paragraph (no indent) Heading 1/2/3 I would like No space between Body text and Headings 2/3, but space after Heading 1 No space between any of the Headings if they happen in sequence By setting up "space before" an...
This seemed like a futile thing to look up but every single guide I check seems to work for a different use case. My question is this: given a "prism" (or just an extruded rectangle), how can I outline it with a thin black line? Below, I attempt to apply a stroke but it just changes the entire outer 3D edges. What I ...
Hi I wonder if there is a way I can get rid of these red lines in Adobe Illustrator? I can't seem to find where to disable them
Please see attached image. I have notes that are numbered, some include images. Notes 14 and 15 are sitting at the bottom of the line, How do I get them to sit at the top like 16 and 17?
Can I name chapters/sections of pages in InDesign - as well as navigate them through a panel? Yes, I've seen the [a,b,c]-[i,ii,iii]-[1,2,3]-solution suggested on this platform. I also know I can color-code and mark sections. In a document with +25 chapters of +50 pages, memorizing colors and numbers is not the most log...
I'm new to Illustrator and struggling to solve this issue. I've created this image and I'm trying to make the area covered by the top layer (the white cloudy part with the circular cutout) transparent. Not just that shape itself, but everything within the area of that shape should be transparent, including all of the l...
When I try to run the FindChangeByList script (I quote the whole script below) from the InDesign script panel, there appears to be no result. When I run the script from Adobe Extend Script Toolkit CC, it gets to this line app.scriptPreferences.userInteractionLevel = userInteractionLevel.interactWithAll; and says that...
I use InDesign to print labels with it. The manufacturer of the labels offers templates for InDesign with the dimensions already drawn in. Currently I proceed as follows: I create the label group all objects copy it to the other positions When I make a change, I have to delete all objects (except one). Ungroup there,...
do you know any program to easily create a roadmap like that: https://github.com/MoienTajik/AspNetCore-Developer-Roadmap/blob/master/aspnetcore-developer-roadmap-printable.png
I'm using Inkscape. How would I do image fading, say about 5 steps equally spaced, so that they eventually blend into the background. So I want to go black to red (the second black figure to the upper right would not end up black, this is just a diagram). Basically I'm trying to do something the same as this tutorial ...
We have over 200 images that we need inserted into a PSD like this -- one that features this image on the wall -- and we want to automate the process. What would be the best way to do it?
I used CC 2021 and in that version has got scroll zoom while using lasso tool. But in CC 2019 I have to do (Ctrl + Space bar + Left mouse click.) How can I zoom with scroll while using lasso tool? Thanks for your help and sorry for my low level English grammar.
MS's font Calibri is not legally usable outside of MS (and opening a .doc document with Libre Office will break the structure of the file). To solve that a new font named Carlito was designed to be compatible with the metric used by Calibri (as reported here or here for instance). Recently, I received a document with a...
I have an illustration containing text and brush strokes and would like to export it as 3 files each containing what is inside one of the three green shapes. I've tried creating a clipping mask from one of the green shapes and then Export -> Export As but that still seems to export the whole illustration.
I’m very drawn to this style. Can anyone give me some additional info or point me in the right direction to learn about it? Thanks
I'm trying to produce an image from the point of view of a person with dementia who can no longer make sense of signage. The feeling is that the forms are very familiar, but don't come together as real words any more, which makes it frustrating. There are a couple of examples of this for explaining dyslexia, e.g. this ...
I would like to make a transparent cutout in a shape so that the position or shape of the cutout can be changed in the future. For example, consider the black and the yellow rectangles: I would like to use the yellow rectangle as the shape that makes a transparent cutout in the black rectangle. Using the pathfinder to...
When converting SVG icons to a font, the conversion seems to strip away everything but the SVG paths. This makes sense, as that's what a font is, a collection of numerically (or mathematically) defined bezier-paths (or at least thats my perception of a fonts underlying nature). Does anyone know if there is anyway to ke...
Was wondering if there was a faster way to change the colour of text using the eye dropper tool to sample colour from some artwork. At the moment I have to click out of the text tool, use the selection tool to select the text and then select the eye dropper tool to recolour the text. Ideally I would like a shortcut to ...
I am very confused as I make a large file of design as my niche is shirt print and I am giving SVG files for cricut and someone told me the use of clipping mask is wrong and you have to cahnge
I scanned a line drawing and extracted the line work in Inkscape. I'm trying to clean up the image in Gimp (erasing dust specks and such), but the lines remain a bit jagged. I've tried selecting the lines, shrinking the selection and deleting the rest and I ended up with the result below. I read that blurring and sharp...
I am trying to imitate the grainy photocopy effect in the poster below. I have found some photoshop tutorials but it doesn't quite give me the exact outcome. I am using the beginning of the video tutorial below. Its a lot lengthier of a process than I thought. A lot of fiddling around. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M...
I would like to redesign this logo to make it more minimal and understandable, but am failing to do so. What are some key points I could follow to achieve this task? Software: Illustrator Logo for Technological Fest Initial logo What I tried Edit: update Here is what I tried keeping in mind the answers an...
I have an SVG (converted to AI) with red lines, red rectangles (with null stroke colors), blue lines, and blue rectangles (with null stroke colors). I can use Select > Same > Stroke Color to select all of the red lines, or Select > Same > Fill Color to select all of the red rectangles. I'm looking for a way to select A...
My manager wants to give our account managers access to my InDesign source files to make last-minute text changes to client brochures. I have been asked to create a 2nd source file and save the file within the manager's folder on our server for them to access. She thinks keeping a master 1st version of the InDesign sou...
I want to import a raster image into Inkscape. But whenever I do "File - Import..." the image gets imported as a placeholder (see screenshot below). Is this some kind of compatibility issue or do I need to activate the actual view? I am using Inkscape 1.2 together with Arch Linux.
I copied and reflected the overall body of the shirt on the right. I then united the reflected and original shape, but the line going down the middle will not disappear. Does anyone know how to get rid of this middle line?
I think I've heard of a way of reading in which words appear on the screen every second or less. For example, I've seen it used in some dynamic Apple promo and it works. What's the method of reading called?
My problem is similar to this question, but I'm using Ilustrator 26.0 I have 2 closed shapes that share a bondary. This was achieved after "dividing" several overlapping shapes and doing some editing, I end up with shapes that share a bondary but the bondaries curves are not identical. Is there a ease way of making tho...
I'm not a graphics illustrator or an artist, and I only have Fireworks CS5. I purchased this EPS at depositphotos thinking that the road (with the line in the middle) was actually two curved lines. Unfortunately, it's just one vector with the line in the middle. With Fireworks CS5 I've tried to divide this vector into ...
I grabbed this PNG from the internet, but I don't like how thick its natural stroke is. Is there a way to make the stroke smaller even though I don't have the raw vector data for it?
I have been preparing artwork for a vinyl album jacket, inner sleeve, etc. A friend offered to check these for me before I bothered sending them to the pressing company. I put three very large Illustrator files up on Google Drive: album jacket - 193.7 MB inner sleeve - 299.6 MB center labels - 8.7 MB I surmised that ...
New to illustrator here! Im creating a simple instructions sheet for decal packaging. Im trying to get them to align properly with cut marks as they are being cut by hand. Whats the proper way to make a layout/template like this?
I'm saving a bunch of files and I would like to save them using selected text from the file using actions. Right now, I'm able to select the text and copy and paste in the file. But when the save as dialog box comes up, it won't paste the text. I either need to convert the selected text to highlighted and then copy and...
I have made a bunch of images where one of the paths (heart) has an contour with a gradient applied. I selected the order: 1. Fill colour 2. contour 3. deco, so that I don't have this weird overlapping between the fill colour and the contour. The problem is that only the SVG preserves that. Once I export the image to P...
I am trying to run an action which involves 3 “clear” steps and 1 “transform” step in Illustrator on .pdf files. I record the action and proceed to batch process, and I get an error that says: The object “clear” is currently not available. I don't know how to correct this. This is Illustrator v 24.2.3
For my small personal graphic design project I'm doing a Japanese cover of "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas", but I am having trouble finding any Japanese font with a similar style to the English "Diploma Regular". Example of "Diploma Regular": W.I.P. version of the cover:
Apologies, if I am missing the obvious, I am new to both AutoCAD and Illustrator. I have drawn up a design in Illustrator to be converted into .dwg to be used in AutoCAD. These designs were drawn using the pen tool and then expanded, all elements of the design (aside from a logo which has not been an issue) were drawn ...
I want to "cut" the image in half, move the original left half of the image to the right, and move the original right half of the image to the left. How can I do that using Gimp?
In Inkscape, these 2 nodes have 2 lines connecting them (though it is one path). I want the 2 nodes connected by a single line so that I can divide the cross shape into 2 shapes. How is this done?
I am having an issue with Illustrator & Photoshop when it comes to font time. I can click the font tool and type using the default font, no problem. As soon as I search for a font or scroll for something different, the program freezes up in to the "Not Responding" wash screen. I would like help fixing this issue if the...
I am trying to put 3 letters next to each other. These Letters are saved as Images, unfortunately I don't know yet how to make the pictures just the the outline of the letter and not a box containing the letter, so that I could push them so close together in order for them to touch each other Many thanks for your help!...
So... say I start out with a simple Shape. (I mean this like a literal, vector Shape, with the capital S. With the grip points. It's important that I wind up with one in the end, too) Now, I want to do a contraction offset, such that the outline/silhouette/stroke is contracted INWARDS, consistently and the same amount...
I've been working on a set of graphic panels and believe I've come up with a good base that fits the theme of the rest of the project they're part of, except that I'm having a very hard time coming up with a color scheme for the text in these panels. I'm not sure anything within my palette looks good on the background....
I am trying to add bullet points in my design using Adobe XD but this function not available in xd, Although I know some of trick to do it By clicking ALT + 0149 Copying and pasting text already having bullet point But the problem is, every time doing this using these 2 methods is really time consuming, is ther...
Premise: I am not a graphic designer but I enjoy using Adobe Photoshop to create logos. I have been working with it for some time in the past, so I know how to use most of the functions and tools related to what I am asking (i.e., logo design). I want to dedicate some of my free time to this and transform what is a per...
So basically the entire premise was to design something around the meaning of the word, i.e., brave/heroic. Hence, I thought of designing it around a shield which are kinda hexagonal, so I went with that. Also, since Lions are a sign of bravery, I added that too. The initial drafts had a caduceus too (since it’s a medi...
I have 6 thousand photo's and videos on a shared drive I would like to put tags on. Adobe Bridge doesn't seem to work across the network. Also I am looking for something where I can set up all the tags and as I have a photo in view I can click all the appropriate tags and then move on to the next one. Any suggestions ?...
This is an image of the gravity of earth. I need it in grayscale with the white areas representing max gravity and black areas representing the minimum gravity so I can get a displacement map to use in Blender. I got the image in this red to blue gradient, there was no grayscale already. I need to map the colors to a ...
How can I recreate the flying cards effect? Can this be done in adobe illustrator? 3d effect? I want to use my own objects but th same way (3d ribbon effect)
I am having an issue with an SVG image that includes a clipped element. This is what I see when I have the SVG file opened in Inkscape: where image369 in layer 3 is a clip from a bigger image I created as follows: First, I drawn a semitransparent rectangle and I put it above the original (bigger) image. Then I selecte...
I'm designign some really simple draft for sketching a pitch offer for a customer. I'm not a designer, I opened Photoshop (for me it is a lot faster than AI, at least for very basic things the likes I usually do) and drew a shape (fat arrow) picking from the list. The box is a rectangle 17cm high, the arrow looks to be...
I'm working on a project where something similar to this (maybe even animated) would fit perfectly, but I don't know how to create something similar (I want to create mountain shapes or buildings that may resemble a chart or levels) Here are the designs I'm asking about: https://www.behance.net/gallery/29501907/Colorpo...
Is it possible to create a good/decent quality round border from a straight band? E.g. if I have a band designs like these: Is it possible to transform them into a round border, such as: Thank you!
I came across the reeded glass displacement system on YouWorkForThem. However, the displacement system is made for Photoshop (which I don't have), and I wanna create a similar effect using GIMP. Can anyone show me how can I do this?
Why is stroke in my exported PDF black while it's gray in Inkscape? This is how it looks in Inkscape: However, the exported PDF stroke become black inside: How can I fix this? Here is my Inkscape file just incase that you want to check it. EDIT: I think I found the explanation. Somehow I added stroke paint to a flat ...
I have a profile picture which I have attatched to this post, I want to turn the most major of those white outlines into a path so I can import it into after effects and add some animated neon glow. Problem is, I am horrible at using the pen tool so manually creating a path with that isn't an option. Could I get some h...
I am trying to find the font of text "Creative COMPUTER" that surrounds the logo. They are two different fonts, I need both of them. Guys I have already tried all the online font identification resources, from font matcherator from fontspring to Artworkfontfinder from bizongo. All sites failed because the text is writt...
https://liquipedia.net/commons/images/3/3e/Artifact_Hand_of_God.png <- sample of card art. I have asked a new question for a similar font, as this font is not available for public use outside of Valve's products.
I have a .bmp image file containing about 3000 unique RGBs to make tiles for a game, the game has a separate file defining the RGB of the tile but when working with them it can be hard to pin down that unique RGB without knowing where it appears in the.bmp file. Example of the province.bmp: Example of the definition.c...
I am attempting to use Simple Inkscape Scripting to programmatically construct an image. I have been working through how to place various objects at (x,y) coordinates on the design surface, but what I want to try and do now is to embed a PNG and at the same time modify its hue. Currently I have this simplistic test pr...
I have about 900 .msg (email) files. I need to convert them all to 1 single PDF file. How can one do this using Adobe Acrobat, or some other software? Sorry if this is the wrong place to post this, but regrettably there is no "Adobe" Stack Exchange.
I have to edit multiple product photos. I am looking for a script / automation to do this for multiple pictures at once. Ive read a lot, but i cant find the right answer. The Products are colorful and pictured in front of a white wall, so they all have clean edges. I have to save them as .jpg with a solid white backgro...
I am trying to create this exact grainy text effect with the different word, but i am unable to create exact like this one.
This is for Adobe Illustrator. I am a beginner and am following a YouTube tutorial and they want us to start will a line segment. Once I add the Zig Zag effect on the line segment it ends up with filler in between the waves. This has happened previously and Im not sure how to fix or avoid this from happening. Any tips?...
I am using Illustrator and wondered if there an easy way to wrap my shapes with a line? origin: desired result (but nicer):
Roy Lichtenstein for example, is his work considered a piece of Graphic Design?
I'm trying to blend a photo onto my render using soft light blending mode, but I get these white pixels. Never had this happen before.
So, I've been looking this font everywhere on the internet as I can, like WhatTheFont, Font Finder, Google Lens, but I can't find anything, not even close to it. Can someone please indentify it? It's for design graphic project on my school.
I've been intrigued by the "hello" backgrounds for macOS (which rolled out with the new iMac)— particularly, the subtle light refraction/dispersion effect: Does anyone know how I could possibly replicate this? Would something like this be possible in Photoshop, or would this require the use of Blender to imitate light...
This question has been already asked, but it's seven years old. Can it be done with now days photoshop? Or is there a workaround that involves photoshop? I mean about the pen pressure curvature. When the harder you press the bigger the brush gets. Is there a way to inverse that in photoshop? Starting from a big brush w...
I have pdf files (books/documents) scanned with background. Today I was able to clean them properly that they look like a proper pdf document. I did so with Adobe Photoshop Elements but it required me to convert each file into bitmap (%50) one by one and I suppose it is needless to say that it is really time consuming ...
How can I recreate this bubbly effect on photos?
this looks incredibly familiar but can't wrap my head around what it's called and how to do it in Photoshop. so help please :( thank you in advance! credits: artstartingover (tw) & portolafestival (ig)
I am trying to skew rows of text in a PowerPoint textbox automatically. Example: I have been able to achieve these results through manual means, such as adding leading spaces or adding a textbox for each line of text. But I have not found a method/format to achieve this type of slanted text automatically. Additionally...
Is it possible to select multiple groups within a parent group using a selection tool? I do NOT want to use the layers panel. I've been able to select a single sub-group within a parent group by using the Group Selection tool and clicking multiple times until the entire sub-group is select. However I haven't been able ...
I have a 100-page PDF master file exported from LuaLaTeX. Several of the pages need to be trivially edited in Inkscape. So I separated them from the master file and opened them one by one in Inkscape. But, in Inkscape itself — and also when I export them back to PDF — the font of these separate pages is ruined: on my c...
I'm searching for an open source alternative for GIMP for an Android tablet or Apple iPad. Can anyone suggest any free apps not browser based solutions like photopea
I am talking about this demo from 2011: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxjiQoTp864 The plugin they show seems to have mapped the motion of the camera. But I have never seen such a tool in PS. What happened to this feature?
I want to create something similiar to this in Photoshop but I can’t figure out a good way to do it.
When exporting (for example) icons from Adobe XD as SVG files, the code contains ID's that are for me unnecessary. When I want to use the SVG files for instance inline in an HTML file, it will give ID duplications. I can get rid of the ID's manually, but I would like to know if there is a way to remove the ID's before ...
Here's the Mongolian Universal White Font Link. BACKGROUND In Mongolian, vowels A (U+1820), O (U+1823) and U (U+1824) are masculine and vowels E (U+1821), OE (U+1825), UE (U+1826) are feminine. Masculine and feminine vowels cannot exist in the same word, so words are either masculine or feminine. The neutral vowel I (...
I have close to zero experience in graphic design, but what is it called when I want to overlay an image at an angle? I want to replace his screen - but his screen isn't flat. What is it called when I want to distort an image to fit the screen?
in offset printing, for example, the cmyk colors are printed as dots of different sizes. One of the questions for me is how many size options are there for the individual colored dots? The reason for the question is that Photoshop, for example, works with values ​​from 0-100%, but saves the colors in the color channel...
I'm a noob at scripting in Illustrator, but all of my search and trial and error didn't get me far. I'm trying to select a specific text of a layer and change the visiblity in a Structure like this: Layer1 Layer2 Text layer to hide Sublayer Layer3 Currently my Code looks like this: var aDoc = app.activeDocumen...
Tell me, please. For example, I need to move a painted ear. Just move it a little bit. But this ear is drawn on several layers + shadows , etc . I tried combining layers. But then the whole drawing is transferred, and not the selected object. Or is a piece of the image transferred only on the selected layer. However, t...
I have two layers of text and a blue background. I want to make the "SERIEB2" text transparent in order to see the background and "cut" the text below. How can I make it via clipping mask in Photoshop?
I am creating a Kannada font in which the below base forms (Vattu) if more than one are appearing one above the other. How do i make them appear one beside the other. This rendering is correct - ಕ್ಕ್ಲ ಚ್ಛ್ಯ - I want to achieve similar to this. I read through the Microsoft document, but was unable to understand how it ...
Inkscape's default scale of "0.039370" is throwing off measurements when I use the Add-Ruler feature. Is there a way to make the default setting always set to "1.0" when I open any new file?
I need to expand an existing font (consola) to add these characters ▁ ▂ ▃ ▄ ▅ ▆ ▇ █, and more in the future, for a programming project. I've searched and found a couple tools (birdfont and fontlab) and they work but when I add the glyph, it has the character grey out (I'm guessing to show what the character is supposed...
Does anyone know why my arrow turns into this strange shape in Inkscape when I fill it? Here is my svg file from Inkscape.