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I have designed a landing page for a website for one of my client. I designed it in Figma(Online UI design tool) and have exported the whole artboard with 1x resolution with the size (W:1400px, H:3900px). And now want to add it as an portfolio image on the upwork portfolio. When I upload the image it says "Image reslou...
I have an InDesign script which places a photo in a document and then puts some text over it. The photo can be either dark or light, so the text should be either black or white. For this to work I need my script to be able to get the information about the colors in this photo. Is there a way to get this information usi...
I have 500+ images that need few sec brushing each, what I will have to do is Edit image Brush strokes Export image Replace existing image Close the file and hit No I don't wanna save PSD What I want to do: Edit image Brush strokes Hit Ctrl+S to save changes to image I am editing Close it without PS asking me to sav...
Is there a way to set the spacing of the pages instead of moving them one by one? I'm working with grids, and the grids on the second page do not align as it is on the first page.
I would like to import .dot files (Grpahviz) to any interactive editor (preferably draw.io). Unfortunately, I didn't find any tool that supports this file format. Can you recommend any tool or converter? Thanks
I want to design a cover page for my analytical report, which contains 6-7 charts + information. So, I need advanced/professional software in order to design text, font size/design, place charts .... So, which software could you recommend? Or even an R package?
I am trying to use the 'fill bounded areas' feature in Inkscape, but it only appears to let me choose from the pre-configured colour selection. How do I specify exactly which colour I want using a HEX code? I can't use the 'fill and stroke' detail as I am not colouring an individual object. I have used other objects to...
How can I create this Rounded pixelate effect from Paramount Plus's Instagram post? Any Graphics design or Motion Design tool that you know of that can achieve this?
Question: How can I get rid of the white space around my graphic so that the artboard can be fitted to the graphic itself? Observed behavior: Object->Artboards->"Fit to selected art" crops the artboard to the edge of the blue boxes highlighted in the image below. I tried to fix this by deleting the blue boxes but that ...
How do I open an image in both Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop (interlinked) so that after I place an SVG filter on the image in Illustrator and I change the levels of the image in photoshop, the level changes will happen in real time to the image also in Illustrator, consequently changing the SVG filter results also i...
I have a raster graphic consisting of a solid-black icon with anti-aliased edges on top of a shaded-red background. I also have the background alone, without the icon on top. Is it possible to recover the solid-black icon alone, without the background (i.e. get the solid-black icon with its anti-aliased edges on a pure...
I cannot find anything on this that is helpful. Mostly it is about removing your own signatures to edit a PDF. We have a PDF file that was signed, and the people who signed it have left the company. We need to create a new blank template based on this file, and no such template is available. I'd like to take the signed...
Why does this not work for the second case? They have exactly the same syntax. I'm using Inkscape 1.2 and the lastest version of MikTeX. I've been trying to installed TexText but it doesn't work and tried to install TinyTex but could not able to install it in Windows 10. Regarding to the Wrzlprmft's comment: Just zoom...
Summary For pen plotting, I would like to transform an image into many parallel lines. Depending on how dark a spot in an image is, the parallel lines are more or less densely packed. Current Approach Example prior image from Piotr Siedlecki (CC0 Public Domain) Piotr Siedlecki (CC0 Public Domain) As-is transformation ...
Continuing Typesetting in Dutch: Dijkstra vs. Dijkstra, how do you typeset the Dutch word for release: vrijgeven (with two separate glyphs i and j) or vrijgeven (with a ligature ij)? Do i and j in this word belong to two syllables or to one? (I'm not asking about the capitalized versions VRIJGEVEN vs. VRIJGEVEN. I'm al...
My indesign file is 13 MB; too big to send by email. Images that are making it so big. Here is my idea: I send my colleague all the necessary images in a library, that we will both have access to. I remove the images from the indesign file, but leave the links. What I mean, is that the links will still be in the in...
What I want to do is: Select all on page 1 Path > Union Select all on page 2 Path > Union ... Is there a way to do this more efficiently instead of doing it one by one? I've tried select all objects and unite them, but it results in an inseparable object.
When I select a text and delete it, InDesign also automatically deletes a space behind the text as well. Is there a way to change this behaviour?
I remember that Adobe Acrobat used to allow to switch between a view of your document based on installed and embedded fonts and a view based on embedded fonts only. That option no longer seems to be available in Adobe Acrobat. How can I view a PDF on my PC as if there were no fonts installed, or only Windows standard f...
I'm going on a bike trip for a few months really soon. I'm dreaming about building a (photo) portfolio website. I've built one website on a desktop machine so far, so I'm not that experienced. I don't want to take a bulky and heavy laptop with me (kgs+needs electrical power), but my iPad Pro. I can edit my photos, writ...
I'm designing a wall mural for an office and have to do an illustrator mock up of a string art wall similar to this: Does anyone know how to achieve a similar effect? I tried searching all kinds of keywords for tutorials and haven't been able to find anything. Can someone explain how to do this or point me in the dire...
I have an image of a solid-black graphic with anti-aliased edges on a shaded-red background, and an image of the background without the graphic, and I want to recover an image of the graphic without the background. My goal is a solid-black layer with a layer mask that reproduces the original graphic as an all-black ima...
I was testing out a new filter I recently bought, and I liked the result. But I wasn't able to edit some of the Smart Filters, because of the smart filter showing me this (I wonder why, because I haven't done anything much): Any help? I'm still a bit new to Photoshop as well. Edit: it has “filter not available or appl...
I plan to create a city scene in one point perspective, but I don't understand how does this tool work. The purple building is supposed to be tall and narrow, not long and short. When I double click the image on the grid to make it narrower and taller, it breaks the perspective. How can I fix it?
A young person I know has made numerous images on an iOS app called Mandalas and the app allows her to save these as svg files. We then open these on my Mac and print them, only, some of these files (now nearly twenty) fail to import and when opened in finder the icon changes to a text document with these words: "This ...
I am developing simple 2D UI/Animation in SDL_image based in-house library that allows me to import images and perform simple operations (positioning, rotation ect.). The requirement is to insert multiple images and use a mechanism to position them in global coordinates. The library works fine for this purpose, but doi...
I have a page of size 210*297 mm, and I want a 1 mm grid. So I create one, but the spacing is not 1 mm and the minor grid lines isn't showing. Am I doing something wrong? Inkscape version is 1.0.2
Is there a way to do a batch print where you can specify how often the respective pdfs have to be printed. like print the first pdf 100 times, the second 80 and the third only 5 times. Maybe with an acrobat plugin or someting?
I'm getting accustomed to Krita, and I'm at a point where I need to warp some line art. It would be convenient if I could keep the original, as well—at the moment, I'm simply duplicating the normal-mode master line art layer, muting it, and working on the duplicate with the distort brushes. I kept thinking about the ma...
I have two artboards. I'm having issues assigning this thing to artboard 1 as it's assigned to artboard 2. How can I do this?
This is a long shot, but I'm at a new job, learning InDesign, and wondering if I can automate something in a set of reports I'll regularly be generating. The organization I work for partners with dozens of nonprofits across twenty categories. We issue a regular a report that includes a list of each category, ordered by...
After selecting the image and trying to Image Trace the image just disappears.
I have a square with sides that are all the same length. I want to place an equilateral rectangle inside but whilst left to right the triangle is the same length, the triangle is shorter top to bottom. I can't quite get my head around why an equilateral with all sides and angles being the same would not fit perfectly i...
I need your help with a little something. I am trying to create an SVG logo with paths and I almost did it successfully but I am facing some issues. My SVG logo path is: <svg id="Layer_1" data-name="Layer 1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 160 24"><title>raw improved</title><path d="M-3270.31-3353l3.16-...
After you've done all things in Photoshop to make a good photo montage, you will have a photo like the left picture. But after that amazing artists do something that I don't know like a final color and light grading that make a picture like the right one; it's shiny and cinematic, it's amazing. How do they do that? Te...
As a sign maker, for estimating I can usually interpolate sizes from an image, the sizes are enought to get rough costing for materials etc and then if the job goes ahead then I take precise measurements. Most of the time I don't carry a ladder nor does my measuring tape hold still enough to get the dimensions I need. ...
At the moment I have a black and white texture image (e.g. of a paper texture), and want to turn the white area transparent. However, simply selecting by colour and making the whitest area transparent gives something that looks a lot worse than the original image. What I really want is this: Question: Is there a way to...
Using Photoshop (and not Illustrator, which I don't have), I would like to get the same result as the one requested in this question: How can I add shapes to anchor points in illustrator? Basically, let's say I defined a triangle shape using the pen tool. What I want to do next is creating another triangle shape so tha...
I often find videos of construction animations like this one or this one where the construction steps are detailed. Out of interest I would like to know which software is most probably used to make these kind of animations. Asking the authors of the videos unfortunately didn't help. (Screencapture)
Our job ticketing system at work is super inefficient for what we do, so I'm trying to make a job ticket that allows us to check a few boxes and copy/paste any relevant details. I used check boxes for common materials, but that still leaves a bunch of clutter on print (all the other unchecked boxes still on the page). ...
I have to work with grayscale .pfm (Portable Bitmap) images that apparently Gimp can open. However, values are way higher than 1, like in range [1;280]. So every pixel appears white, with % values for red, green and blue like 150%. How can I rescale Gimp colors for rendering only, like a pixel with value 280.0 will be ...
There are fine tools out that generate color schemes with a color wheel based on color science. E.g. Paletton does so and offer me to export the colors to CSS. It is not clear for me to which elements of a website (text, background, active links, inactive links, etc) this colors belongs. I don't understand this term ma...
Please see the attached image. I am curious about both textures - the one used on the subject and the one used in the background. These can't all be by hand, can they?
I work best when drawing things out, but it’s a great challenge actually doing such. I have OCD, and am unable to do basic sketches unless they are pixel perfect and symmetrical. Are there any good design/sketching applications for making perfect, symmetric drawings? I’m not an artist— I don’t need to be able to make c...
Can someone help in with my personal project by identify the font used for "PORTABLE" in this logo. I've tried sites likefont.com but have have no luck. It would be very much appreciated.
What is the best type of book binding to adopt if one needs to add or change pages later? Here is the reason. My design is a song book with 224 pages (112 two-sided sheets). The requirements are: The sheets have to be held strongly because the book will be used frequently (several services a week). As very good new so...
How can I make emojis appear in a text box in Inkscape? I'm running Inkscape v1.0.2 (e86c870879, 2021-01-15) on Debian 11 (bullseye). I cannot get emojis to appear in an SVG that I'm creating in Inkscape. For example: I open Inkscape. I create a new document. I create a text box. I type a string with some emojis betwe...
I'm trying to create a curved banner like this in GIMP. I've tried the Paths Tool, but I couldn't get it exact. Is there another way, or was I using the Paths Tool incorrectly?
I created my banner and I'm now trying to apply a gradient. The banner is smooth after creating it with the path tool, but after applying a gradient, the edges are now jagged, like this. There are lots of settings and I'm playing with them but not able to get what I need.
I'm trying to open a silouette file and add to a figure I made in GIMP. GIMP opens up a blank transparent background. I tried changing the mode from Indexed to RGB, but it's still blank. I tried exporting it just to see but then the new file is also blank. The file is available from: http://phylopic.org/image/c345a923-...
When I'm creating a file with different text styles in InDesign, at some point I invariably notice that the software has adopted a 'standard' setting for type in a brand new text box I create. Not just Paragraph and Character styles are slapped on, but also settings like vertical centering of text, or shudder horizonta...
I would like to basically insert a picture behind the heart and I would like to have it the form of the inner path of the heart. How can I copy the inner path of the heart and then use it to crop my picture? Thanks so much for your help guys!
I had rendered a 5 seconds(24 fps) animation on Blender and brought it in to Adobe After Effects for extra additions. It then appeared that I would need the animation a little longer to 15 seconds. I went back to blender and rendered the very last frame of the Animation out as an image. Imported it into After Effects a...
I'd like to design something like this with CSS but I need to know the name to google it. I tried to Google similar images to no avail.
I am working on a sample project where I want to design a logo which should look like a letter "C" letter combined with Letter "O" but the letter C should be comining with letter C such that it should make a dispersion effect when connecting with O. To be more precise I add that there's wanted no material movement impr...
is there a way to merge anchor based on a distance? Blender has a mesh clean up command that allows it to eliminate points that have a small distance between them. Does Illustrator have something similar, or Inkscape? Here are some images illustrating two scenarios where something that executes a "merge or 'collapse' b...
I have a logo which is skewed and would like to skew the background to match without further skewing the logo. The image on the left is what I currently have, the skewed rounded rectangle with the box inside represent the logo. On the right is what I need with the lighter gray representing transparency. In addition, t...
I'd like to find a font in which the letter "x" looks like the unicode character U+1D4CD: MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT SMALL X, that is, in the style which you would write by hand with two curved vertical strokes, )(. Any suggestions?
My company has used CorelDraw for the past 20 years. Many artwork files. Corel sadly can't cope with the artworks we are creating so we are thinking of moving to the Adobe Creative suite. My question is...is there an efficient way of converting our CDR files to work with the Adobe suite?
Despite wishing to move from using Adobe Illustrator to Inkscape, I am struggling to do so in practice, the primary reason being that I rely so heavily on a particular functionality in Illustrator for which I can find no correspondence or easy solution in Inkscape. NOTE: Because I cannot name the function but only desc...
I am struggling to print out 1 inches square grid on A4-paper. The squares comes out about 1,8 inches. I have tried on 2 different printers (Brothers DCP-L5500DN Laser printer, and a Epson ET-2820 inkjet). I also tried printing out different grids from Internet, and simple squares with Google Draw document. When I prin...
I have a font with few stylistic sets. How do I select a specific stylistic set of it in Krita? I have found some information about it only for Adobe InDesign and Illustrator, but it seems I cannot find anything regarding Krita. Is it possible to do it in Krita?
Just a simple question: what font is this and where can I find it for free?
Steps: create 2 circles and center them. select both and path > division use the edit path by nodes tool to inspect the path Why is the path so complex in step 3? Is there a way to simplify that? I've tried path > simplify, but it turned out to be a little different. (I simplify the red one, and the gray one rem...
Trying to copy the (ii) pasting here yields Why does the pasted image look so strange?
I have two equilateral triangles, one pointing up and one pointing down. I created the triangles using the polygon tool. Sides: 3 Radius: blank Smooth Corners: unchecked Star: unchecked I need to align these triangles exactly to make a six-pointed star. I can do so visually by manually moving the stars but I presume ...
I've been encouraged to move to a vector-based package like Inkscape to achieve better scalability in my images, but when I display a well-formed SVG spec with a set of Bezier curves in Inkscape I get a very perverse rendering compared to what both GIMP and Microsoft Edge show me. My image is essentially a collection o...
I want to make a 3D model of a non-round bike headset spacer. So I traced one onto a sheet of paper and took a photo with my phone. I think the next step should be turning it into a vector file. But after I used the trace bit map function in Inkscape, the result was not a single line as I needed. It had thickness and t...
Is it possible to create a GREP function that will automatically change the first letter to capital letter in a word? For example: "moonlight" and GREP changes it to "Moonlight". Don't want to use Find/replace, because I want to embedded in alinea style. Thanks for the help!
I have used the masking tool from camera raw: Now when I open that thing in PS the layer masks are not there. It is a single layer: How do I transfer the layer masks from Camera Raw over to Photoshop?
I'm making a PDF/X-1a, from a CS6 indesign file, for a print magazine that will be illustrated with images of everyday objects. The images are made from scans and photographs. There is no line art and it will be printed by a commercial offset printer. What is the exact sequence I should use in PS (don't laugh, I use CS...
What is the name of the shape called that looks like a 3x5 card with rounded top corners and header with background color? Two examples: Update: As someone mentioned it’s sort of a shape with shapes and there might not be a name for it. A user interface object. A composite component. It has been used as a container, ...
I copy pasted one image icon from Adobe XD to create a vector of it in adobe illustrator. But my Ai is behaving differently, it is having the icon in the background everywhere. Seems like the hidden background or something. Can anyone please tell me what is this behaviour here? It never happened before.
I am trying to merge EmojiOne into a regular OTF font to give the basic OTF font Emoji support: https://github.com/adobe-fonts/emojione-color Typically I would open the regular OTF font, then go Element > Merge and select Emoji One. Then I could Generate Font and select SVG font for output. However, when I try to even ...
Whenever I make a selection it automatically inverts the selection. How do I correct it?
I'm trying to use PNG files for creating and I have the next problem: As you can see, when I import or paste the IMG, the background of PNG 'is not actually a background'. Is like background has the squares of transparency but actually is like white. I'm not sure if I'm explaining well because I find it a little bit w...
I have a bunch of 1800x1800 pictures. I need to individually put each image onto a 2200x2200 canvas and then save/export it. Is there a way I can batch this? To further explain, I need to add a 400 pixel white trim to each side of each picture. Right now I'm using gimp and I'm making a new canvas that's 2200x2200 and a...
Particularly in students papers, I often see the that they start a paragraph, which may be quite lengthy, with a specific term followed by a colon. I believe this is just very comfortable for the writer to introduce a few terms or similar; however, to some degree, it enables the writer to not really think about the con...
Is there a Photoshop Alt+Drag equivalent in GIMP, where you copy a selected object and drag it in a layer? All I can find is this, but it's under a paywall.
I have this issue where when I made a circle and give it a dashed appearance and make it circular. I get this duplicated circle: Here are the details: How can I fix this?
When drawing a rectangle or square, if drawn randomly it shows the units in a small box displayed in cm. If drawn by specifying the dimensions from the top ribbon, the unit is pixels instead of cm.
I would like the footer's background color to be a different color than the rest of the website. Is there a proper way of doing this or do I just create a rectangle element, stretch it out onto the footer area and change its background color?
My question is basically this one, except the Illustrator version. I can think of some hackish ways to do it, but I'm thinking maybe there's a proper way to do it, so I figured I'd ask. Chapter 1 1-1. The table of contents should have dotted lines like this..................4. 1-2. Ideally the dotted lines will resize ...
I'm trying to use envelope distort in illustrator to render this graphic onto a photo of a wall, but I can't seem to get the perspective on the text looking right. Can anyone help me figure out how to fix this? This is what the flat graphic looks like:
I am not a programmer/coder at all, just someone that can google (poorly), so I have no real idea what I'm doing. I have a bunch of pictures that I need to split in half and keep both halves. Someone told me that IM could automate that, and gave me: magick convert .\input.jpg -crop 50%x100% output%02d.jpg After mess...
Is there a way to add stroke on clipped objects? Steps: create a picture and a shape move the shape onto the picture select both and set clip It is a way to do this? (stroke around the clipped object) (I've tried adding stroke directly by selecting the picture and applied stroke paint, but it didn't work)
Can anyone identify the font in the image below. Finding a Serif font with a round a has proven difficult for me. thanks
I'm working with a bedsheet/bedcover mockup that I downloaded from freepik.com I'm new in the photoshop world and I am trying to learn Photopea on my phone (android). What I know about mockup is that, the user has to double click on the "mockup-layer", then a new tab opens up and he just has to put his own design into ...
I'm starting to learn pixel art and I have a problem when I try to use sprite sheet for reference. I have this sprite sheet in Photoshop, and I select the pointed area: Problem is when I paste it in Illustrator. I create a file with pixel proportions of selected image (32x34 in this case). I create a layer and I put a...
I followed the line where the sea meets the sky for the horizon line but it just doesn't quite line up with the boat? I'm extremely lost, I would really appreciate someone to crack this one for me by drawing the lines on top...! A man on a boat holding a freshly caught fish that's as large as he is; his pants and the d...
I came across a few technical architecture designs on websites like these: (Above image doesn't have a background so please open it in a new tab as an image) Can you guys give me any idea on which software/website can I build such technical architecture designs on?
I got a logo from a design agency: In my website there is only room for a logo image in the size of 160px X 160px, so after I have uploaded the logo image to my website, I got: How to solve that unproportionality problem? How to resize a broad image correctly?
I've been trying to place or drag something from photoshop into illustrator but whatever way I do it it comes in as really small. The artboard sizes are both 1080 x 1080 px I took screenshots of all the details of both illustrator and photoshop windows and dimensions. I don't think I've usually encountered problems as ...
I have an image imported in the .png format to the Inkscape. I want to use the selection within this imported image and apply some filters in the given area only. As you can see above, I would just like to edit the window within the image shown. Unfortunately, it looks like Inkscape allows us to select the imported im...
It's a 2014 TV drama title. I've searched this for a long time but got nothing, since online font identification websites usually cannot recognize Japanese words. So if anyone knows the detail about this font, please let me know and I'd really appreciate your help!
Programmatic Solution for Emboldening Glyphs In other words I want a tool that helps me convert glyphs to heavier/lighter weights. I have been using Inkscape v1.2 to create glyphs, but now I want to italicize them & embolden them. Skewing the font to make it italic is easy enough, but the only way I have figured out ...
I used mask to create a shape I want. Now I want to apply minus front (I will put a new shape on top of the masked shape), but it's not working properly. How to fix this problem?
I'm a mechanical engineer about to invest in a new A3 laser printer but won't have the chance to try it out before buying. It's main function will be to print technical drawings for checking. The largest drawing size I come across is A0, and the minimum font size on said drawing would be 1.8mm. As I'm scaling A0 to fit...
I have some artboards that I want to rearrange in order to even out the spacing between them. The trouble is, when I Rearrange All Artboards Illustrator completely ignores my guides, leaving the guides in their original positions and rendering them useless, as they are no longer positioned relative to the artwork. ↑ ...
Basically, is there a way to do this in Illustrator using a single stroke (or shape)? I could replicate it using two strokes, and the result was almost the same, but is there some command or technique I'm missing that allows to do it with a single stroke? I guess not, because of the overlapping.